Sports | Jul 29
The Ontario Varsity Football League kicks off its playoffs in all three divisions this weekend and the Etobicoke Eagles, which play out of Centennial Stadium, have qualified in two of them - in senior and junior varsity divisions.
The senior varsity team earned a bye through the opening weekend...
Sports | Jul 29
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Eric
Heino
As venue complications in Hamilton continue to drag on, York University is being examined as one of the front-runners to host track and field competitions for the 2015 Pan American Games.
Pan Am CEO Ian Troop held a teleconference on Thursday, July 29 when he said that while the location of track...
Sports | Jul 29
Scarborough's three Thunder football teams have all qualified for their respective Ontario Varsity Football League (OVFL) post seasons, and two of them will commence playoff action this weekend.
First to this weekend's games.
The oldest Thunder team (varsity) has a bye by virtue of an...
Sports | Jul 29
A recent Mary Ward Catholic Sceondary School grad is taking the plunge for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's disease).
Meredith Poole and her friend Julia Almeida are swimming from Winderemere House on Lake Rosseau to her family's cottage on Brackenrig Bay on...
Sports | Jul 29
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Eric
Heino
Rumours speculating that construction of Scarborough's Pan AmGames aquatics facility is in jeopardy have been flatly denied by both the local city councillor and by a top Pan Am 2015 official.
Some reports indicated the cost of soil remediation on the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus...
Sports | Jul 29
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Eric
Heino
One supporter of the late East York resident, Frederick James Heather, is lobbying to make him the first cricketer inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
Chris Redford was only two years old when his great uncle Frederick died in 1976. After searching through old scrapbooks and personal...
Sports | Jul 28
The 2010 Scarborough Tennis Federation Junior Closed tournament was held July 23 to 26 at three clubs in Scarborough.
BOYS
- In the boys under 12 main draw final Louis Reyes (McLevin Park TC) defeated Milo Yorfido (Heron Park TC) 8 games to 2.
In the boys under 12 consolation draw final...
Sports | Jul 28
Jonathan de Guzman won't have to search very far for information on Spain's La Liga, which the 22 year old has just joined, becoming only the second Canadian ever to do so.
The first was his 28-year-old older brother Julian de Guzman who played for Deportivo La Coruna prior to joining...
Sports | Jul 28
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Tim
Foran
David Bunker, a 45-year-old physical education teacher at Lawrence Heights Middle School and a notable amateur golfer, competed in the Canadian Open this past week.
Sports | Jul 27
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Sean
Durack
The Scarborough Swim Club is floating some lofty plans for the next five years and they've enlisted the coaching philosophy of a proven winner to ensure it happens.
Darren Ward, an American-born freestyle swimmer who represented Canada at the Olympics in Seoul, Korea in 1988 and in Barcelona...
Sports | Jul 27
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Sean
Durack
As much as things have changed in 50 years, they've virtually remained the same for the Don Mills Tennis Club.
Sure there are roads and cars now where cattle once grazed, when the Bond Park-area club sat inside the former curling dome at The Donway and Don Mills Road (where the Shell gas...
Sports | Jul 27
Marek Deska pitched seven solid innings and Dan Gibbons had three hits, including a solo homer, to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 7-4 win over the Guelph Royals in the opening game of the first round best-of-seven series at Dominico Field at Christie Pits on Sunday, July 25.
The Intercounty...
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