Category Archives: Local Sports
Kelly Olynyk agrees to sign with Miami Heat
MIAMI - Canadian Kelly Olynyk has agreed to sign with the Miami Heat. Agent Greg Lawrence confirmed the agreement to The Associated Press, after ESPN first reported it would be a four-year deal worth ...
Jul 06, 2017
Research indicates former CFL player Rick Klassen had CTE
KAMLOOPS - Former B.C. Lions player Rick Klassen died at the age of 57 last December from cancer. Had he lived to an older age, there’s a chance that his quality of life may been dramatically af...
Jul 06, 2017
Marilyn McLean, Special Olympics "super" volunteer
KAMLOOPS - Special Olympics is about the athletes, but without the volunteers, there would’nt be a Special Olympics. No one in B.C. Special Olympics has been at volunteer game longer than Marily...
Jul 06, 2017
Kamloops athlete medals twice at Canadian Track and Field Championships
KAMLOOPS - Gret Stewart starred in basketball with the TRU WolfPack for four years, he’s a world standing volleyball champion and a former Kamloops Sports Council male athlete of the year. He no...
Jul 06, 2017
Kamloops sending 9 swimmers to the pool in SOBC Summer Games
KAMLOOPS - Swimming is one of the most popular sports and recreational activities in the world. And that holds true to Special Olympics. Swimming will be one of the sports in this weeks Special Olympi...
Jul 05, 2017
English side takes on KYSA U-18 boys in a friendly
KAMLOOPS - The Moreton School Football Academy soccer team from Wolverhampton, England defeated the Kamloops Blaze U18 Boys by a score of 6-0 in an international friendly at Mac Island last night (Jul...
Jul 05, 2017
Venom open playoffs with high scoring win
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Venom scored eleven straight goals in the first period on the way to a 23-2 win over the South Okanagan Flames in the first game of the junior lacrosse playoffs. Anthony Matusi...
Jul 05, 2017
Kamloops Coyotes ready to "play ball" in Special Olympic games
KAMLOOPS - It’s just 48 hours until the lighting of the flame and the opening ceremonies on Thursday night at the Sandman Centre for the Special Olympics B.C. Summer Games. Local athletes have b...
Jul 04, 2017
Parkland wins Canada Day Classic, RiverDogs fifth, KIBT next
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops RiverDogs finished in fifth place in the Canada Day Baseball Classic, scoring all of their runs in the third inning in a 5-3 win over Red Deer. Spruce Groves Parkland Twins rep...
Jul 04, 2017
Kamloops bocce team to play for the first time in SOBC summer games
KAMLOOPS - More than 1,600 athletes and volunteer coaches will be arriving in Kamloops this week for the Special Olympics B.C. Summer Games. There will also be up to a thousand volunteers to make sure...
Jul 03, 2017
