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New to the Finals, but Raptors handle the moment in huge Game 1 win
The Golden State Warriors aren’t accustomed to being down early in an NBA Finals. The Toronto Raptors, well, everything at this level is brand new for the Toronto Raptors, but it was the new guys to the party who looked poised and composed ...
5 things to know about the Raptors-Warriors NBA Finals
The Toronto Raptors might want to take a page from the Golden State Warriors. The West Coast cagers belong to two cities — Oakland and San Francisco — and they’ve done a great job in recent years of ensuring that both sides of the ...
Hurricanes add wing Sophie Atkinson from Yarmouth, N.S.
Forward Sophie Atkinson will bring speed, athleticism and a high basketball IQ to the Holland College Hurricanes roster this fall. The Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School student will study in the sport and leisure management ...
Danny Frame, Dirk Bishop after tandem caber toss Guinness World Record June 1
Danny Frame sits in the community room at Lawrencetown Education Centre. He’s the first one there. It’s where he teaches at-risk kids and there’s a Gaelic Heritage Day coming up at the school. He’ll be in charge of the ...
Dirt track memories - Legendary Bridgetown running coach Bill Hirtle looks back on when it all started
Bill Hirtle stands at the north end of the track in Bridgetown, just west of the new school. Districts are coming up and he watches the youngsters train. Sixty-eight years ago he was digging rocks out of that same track. They cleared it from the ...
Middleton duo provincial NSSAF junior girls badminton champions
The Middleton Regional High School Doubles Team in the Junior Girls Division won the NSSAF Provincial Championship on April 13 at CEC in Truro. En-route to Provincials they had second place positions at both Districts in Middleton and Western ...
Agreement reached on Nova Scotia high school rugby
Rugby Nova Scotia will take over running high school rugby for the rest of the season. That news came out of a meeting in Truro on Tuesday between the Department of Education and the board of governors of the Nova Scotia School Athletic ...
NSSAF defends rugby ban decision in memo to school principals
In an internal memo directed to principals May 5, the Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation lays it all out on the line. ...
Lasting impression - Former track star Morse visits his old coach in Bridgetown to say thanks
When Dick Campbell inducted David Morse into the Bridgetown and Area Sports Hall of Fame in November, there was something the former track athlete wanted to tell his old coach. But he couldn’t. “I would have been a crying mess. But ...
Sweets Corner horse breeder taking the reins of Atlantic association
Two years ago, Debbie Francis had to have unexpected heart surgery after a tumour was found on the left side of her heart. ...