Category Archives: Local Sports
WHL/Blazers dealing with unprecedented and uncertain times.
KAMLOOPS --- It's been just over three months since the rest of the Western Hockey League season, the playoffs and the Memorial Cup were all cancelled because of COVID-19.Three months filled with unce...
Jun 16, 2020
Two Blazers invited to National Junior Team summer development camp
KAMLOOPS --- Two Blazers have been named to the National Junior team summer development camp set for late July.Forward Connor Zary and goaltender Dylan Garand are among 41 players named to take part i...
Jun 16, 2020
Kickboxing champion takes his kicks on the road
KAMLOOPS --- World kickboxing champion Tom LaRoche has gone on a road trip.With his World Gung-fu and Kickboxing Gym off limits because of COVID-19, LaRoche had to get innovative.
Jun 10, 2020
Longtime KIBT executive has passed away
KAMLOOPS --- A well known and longtime coach and sports volunteer in Kamloops has died. Dean Padar passed away yesterday of cancer at the age of 53. A longtime executive and former president and curre...
Jun 10, 2020
WolfPack athletes, coaches look to turn negative into a positive
KAMLOOPS --- Student athletes who play soccer at Thompson Rivers University are coming to grips with no Canada West season this fall.Volleyball and basketball players and coaches still aren't sure wha...
Jun 09, 2020
Canada West confirms cancellation of first term sports season
KAMLOOPS --- The Canada West Univesity fall season this year will have a different look --- there won't be any!USPORTS and Canada West have cancelled the first term of the 2020-21 season, which would ...
Jun 08, 2020
USPORTS expected to announce cancellation of sports seasons through end of 2020
KAMLOOPS - USPORTS, which includes Canada West, and the TRU WolfPack, is expected to announce the cancellation of all sports through to the end of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That will put ...
Jun 07, 2020
Twenty-five years ago today, June 5, 1995 ---- the unthinkable ---- sending shock waves through the hockey world.
KAMLOOPS --- Twenty-five years ago last month the Kamloops Blazers won their third Memorial Cup in four years.Two weeks later, on this day 25 years ago, the unthinkable happened, sending shock waves t...
Jun 05, 2020
Former Kamloops coach loses relatives in U.S. unrest -- Kamloops Community Football reaches out.
KAMLOOPS --- The death of a black Minneapolis man at the hands, or should we say the knee, of a white police officer, sparked violent protests in the U.S., and international outrage.The impact has bee...
Jun 04, 2020
"Riverboat Gambler" signs 2019 1st round bantam draft pick
KAMLOOPS --- The Blazers went out on a limb and took a gamble with their two first round picks in the 2019 bantam draft.Both picks had made verbal committments to the NCAA University of Michigan.A mon...
Jun 02, 2020
