Brutal heat, brutal sport and the senior boys rugby squad from Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute wouldn't have it any other way. Under a withering sun the team of 16 to 18 year olds, coached by Chris Rhora, romped to a lopsided 22-10 victory over the Cedarbrae C.I. Colts Thursday afternoon at the Sunnybrook Park rugby pitch to capture the Toronto District School Board's bragging rights for 2010. Continue Reading

It’s nearing the end of the third period and the white team is one goal ahead. The stakes are high because it’s the championship game. Suddenly the red team gets a break away and the crowd goes wild. Skating in like a pro, the forward heads straight for the net. He shoots. He scores. The spectators erupt [...] Continue Reading

Amidst three days of war between Ontario’s 18-best high school basketball teams, it becomes easy to forget what it takes to put on an event of this magnitude. Convener of the 2010 OFSAA basketball tournament Michael Kennelley, with help from volunteer coordinator Teena McNee, assembled a team of 40 high schools students from the Durham region [...] Continue Reading

Nearly invisible throughout the first three quarters, Julian Clarke put his team on his back in the fourth as he led Toronto’s Oakwood Barons to a gold medal and an OFSAA championship with a 47-34 victory over the St. Thomas More Knights. To the delight of nearly 1,000 spectators at Durham College in Oshawa, the twelfth-seeded [...] Continue Reading

Sam Hill walked onto the court of the 1982 OFSAA provincial championships for Jarvis Collegiate Institute and walked away empty handed as the Eastern Commerce Saints captured the gold. Now 28 years later, Sam continues to watch the Saints, cheering for his son Jake, a 17-year-old shooting guard at Eastern. Sam Hill’s father was born in [...] Continue Reading

First of all, Andrew Robichaud, Vick Polatian and I would like to thank Centennial College, the Centennial College Student Association and the journalism faculty for giving us the opportunity to come to Oshawa to cover this exciting tournament. Day two of the 2010 AAAA OFSAA Boys Basketball Championship, being held in Oshawa, started with an [...] Continue Reading

The gym is a lot livelier than we thought here at day one of the provincial championships (for senior boy’s basketball of course). So far we’ve been keeping a close eye on the Eastern Commerce Saint’s opening match against the Pope John Paul II Panthers. It was a battle, to say the least, throughout the first half [...] Continue Reading

Last season’s OFSAA boy’s champions Eastern Commerce Saints opened the 2010 AAAA basketball tournament with a convincing victory over Pope John Paul II Panthers 73-58 at Durham College. Pope John Paul (25-10) put up a great first half with a 33-30 lead at half-time. The Saints (23-7) stormed back in the second half after the Panther’s [...] Continue Reading

Following heartbreaking losses in the regional and city championships, to the same team, the Oakwood Collegiate Institute Barons rebounded with a huge 79-58 win over the St. Matthew Tigers in the opening round of the 2010 OFSAA basketball championships. Putting grades first translated into a brilliant 34-4 record in the regular season. The Barons secured the [...] Continue Reading

They face great adversity and courageously overcame their challenges. Forty torchbearers took part in the 2010 Paralympics torch relay when the lighting ceremony took place March 5 at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square Shayne Smith, a wheelchair basketball player had the honour of lighting the cauldron. Smith, 21, is a member of the Ontario Men’s [...] Continue Reading