CITY NEWSThe Border City Brawlers are a month into training, and these feisty women are that much closer to some serious shoving and tripping against other area teams. Within the year, they want to be into the league, pass the required time trials, and kick some butt. For now, though, the dozens of ladies on “quads” [...]
CITY NEWSThe school year may be weeks away, and the Windsor Lancers’ football team doesn’t face an opponent ’till August 31st, but today the team took its first down of the year. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport association (CIS) in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) sent out a media release today about [...]
CITY NEWSThe Windsor Junior Selects lost to the Tecumseh Thunder 6-5 Monday afternoon, officially knocking them out of the Ontario Junior Baseball Championship finals. Tecumseh will proceed to play against the Pickering team later Monday evening for the winning title. Windsor Selects player Laslo Horvath was ejected during the 1pm game for unsportsmanlike conduct after running [...]
CITY NEWSSunday, August 1st – The Windsor Junior Selects lost to Pickering 3-2, but beat Kitchener 10-8 at the Ontario Junior Baseball Championship on Sunday at Mic Mac Park. On Saturday, the Windsor Selects beat both Guelph and Brantford back to back. The Selects will be playing in the finals on Monday at 1pm. They will [...]
CITY NEWSWindsor Spitfires’ Head Coach Bob Boughner may be the latest Spitfire to move to the National Hockey League. Puck-Rackers Blog, a column in the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, reported Sunday night that Boughner will be joining the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL franchise as an Assistant Coach. Boughner spent ten seasons in the NHL as a defenseman [...]
CITY NEWS“In the rest of Ontario, it’s Victoria Day. In Windsor, it’s Victorious Day!” said @barilko on twitter. And it’s true. Windsorites celebrated like never before in the streets of downtown this afternoon, when our hometown heroes — the Windsor Spitfires — returned from their week-long battle for victory at the Memorial Cup in Brandon, Manitoba. [...]
CITY NEWSThe GECDSB Special Olympic games were held Thursday at Essex District High School. The games were dedicated to Barb Brooke Banks and her partner Rob who are retiring this year for over 25 years of service to the regional Special Olympics. Athletes competed in various track events such as 100m, 200m and the 400m, as [...]
CITY NEWSFor the second time in two years, the Windsor Spitfires are headed to the OHL Finals. The Spits will face the playoff-strong Barrie Colts, beginning this Tuesday in Barrie, and will battle for the J. Ross Robertson Cup. The Spitfires beat the Kitchener Rangers 4-1 this afternoon at the WFCU Centre, coming back from being [...]
