Category Archives: Local Sports
COVID-19 impact on Kamloops Storm
KAMLOOPS ---- B.C. Hockey League Commissioner Chris Hebb has sounded some alarm bells about how the shutdown in sports is going to affect his league.Hebb says it could be tough for some teams to survi...
Apr 21, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Storm
B.C. Lions 2020 training camp won't be in Kamloops.
KAMLOOPS --- If and when the B.C. Lions have a training camp this spring, or summer, it will not be in Kamloops.The Lions have informed the city that if there is a training camp it will be at their Su...
Apr 17, 2020 Image credit: B.C. Lions
From the Sports Vault -- October 12, 1992 Blazers record their first win in the Riveside Coliseum.
KAMLOOPS --- October 9, 1992 the Blazers christened the new Riverside Coliseum.It was more like a baptism by fire --- an 8-2 loss to the Portland Winterhawks.Three days later, on the afternoon of Octo...
Apr 16, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Blazers Stankoven WHL Western Conference rookie of the year
KAMLOOPS ---- The Western Hockey League announced today Logan Stankoven, forward of the Kamloops Blazers, has been named the WHL Western Conference Rookie of the Year and nominee for the Jim Piggott M...
Apr 16, 2020 Image credit: WHL
From the sports vault --- Blazers 1992 Riverside Coliseum (Sandman Centre) first game
KAMLOOPS ---- For their first 11 seasons the Kamloops Blazers, and before that the Junior Oilers, played out of Memorial Arena.On our trip down memory lane tonight we take you back 28 years.In the fal...
Apr 15, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Kamloops Youth Soccer cancels spring season.
KAMLOOPS --- The Kamloops Youth Soccer Association's Board of Directors met via conference call on Monday, April 13th to determine a course of action for the 2020 Community Spring Season. KYSA's Commu...
Apr 14, 2020 Image credit: KYSA
Blazers Bardsley named WHL Western Conference executive of the year
KAMLOOPS ---The Western Hockey League announced today Matt Bardsley, General Manager of the Kamloops Blazers, has been named the WHL Western Conference Executive of the Year and nominee for the Lloyd ...
Apr 14, 2020 Image credit: WHL
From the vault: Barry McPhee wins 1986 B.C. men's curling championship
KAMLOOPS - From the sports vault, CFJC Today looks back at the 1986 B.C. Men's Curling Championship. Barry McPhee's rink from the River City advanced to the final and was trying to earn another berth ...
Apr 14, 2020
Broncos looking at shortened season, more Interior games to reduce travel
KAMLOOPS - Broncos GM Jan Antons has put more work into scheduling a potential 2020 season than he has ever before assembling a junior football team. Antons, who is also a board member with the Canadi...
Apr 13, 2020 The Broncos in action against the Okanagan Sun in Kelowna last season (Image Credit: Jim Motokado)
From the vault: Kamloops Jardine Blazers become first local team to win KIBIHT
KAMLOOPS - In the last couple weeks, Earl Seitz has taken us all back in time during this pandemic, looking at some of the most signficant moments in Kamloops sports history. One of those great moment...
Apr 13, 2020
