KAMLOOPS - Rick (The Bear) Wile's booming voice was influential for generations in the Kamloops sports community. Wile, longtime sports director and anchor for Radio NL, died on Tuesday after a battle with illness. He was 72. "Proud, passionate and professional," Peter Olsen said while paying tribute to his ...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The Kamloops Storm have been eliminated from the second round of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoffs, losing 4-0 in Williams Lake last night. The Storm were swept in four games straight by the Mustangs. Kaelen Swanson scored his eighth goal of the post-season for Williams Lake...

KAMLOOPS - WHL play-by-play announcers Jon Keen of the Kamloops Blazers and Regan Bartel of the Kelowna Rockets go way back, Saskatchewan exports who called Swift Current Broncos' games together in the late 1990s. With their teams set to clash in the post-season for the first time since 2019, Keen of Radio NL and Bart...

KAMLOOPS - The latest instalment of BC Lions FanFest will be returning to Kamloops on May 16 this year, as the CFL franchise prepares for its 72nd season of operations.FanFest will take over Hillside Stadium between 2:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the May long weekend, giving fans an up-close look at the 202...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The Kamloops Storm are in a spot of bother in the Doug Birks Division Finals series against the Williams Lake Mustangs. The Storm are facing elimination after they lost game three 4-2 Monday (March 23) night at the Cariboo Memorial Rec Complex. The result has the Mustangs firmly in the driver's se...

KAMLOOPS - Raiya Matonovich had an outstanding indoor track and field season with the Simon Fraser Red Leafs.The 18-year-old runner was on Friday named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference female freshman of the year, thanks in part to her four-medal performance at the GNAC Championships, at which she was named trac...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers' head coach Shaun Clouston said the heat is on the Kelowna Rockets, with the B.C. Division rivals preparing to square off in Round 1 of the WHL post-season. "They're a team that geared up to host the Memorial Cup," Clouston said. "Their record since the trade deadline is awes...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Storm aren't in must-win territory in their second round Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) playoff series, but there is little margin for error going forward. Home ice was not an advantage, as the Storm dropped the first two games of the Doug Birks Division Finals to the Willi...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers will not have to travel far to begin the 2026 Western Hockey League (WHL) playoffs. The Blazers will face their regional and historic rival - the Memorial Cup host Kelowna Rockets - in a date with destiny that took all 68 regular season games to book. The Blazers finished the regular sea...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Tommy Lafreniere scored just 15 seconds into overtime to lift the Kamloops Blazers to a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Giants Saturday (March 21) night at the Langley Events Centre. Lafreniere had two goals - and an assist - to move past the 40 goal mark this season, less than 24 hours after J.P. Hurlbert a...

KAMLOOPS - J.P. Hurlbert made the hats fly at Sandman Centre as the Kamloops Blazers beat the Vancouver Giants 7-3 Friday (March 20) night.The 17-year-old forward, who has committed to playing NCAA hockey at Michigan next season, scored a hat trick in what could be his final home game in blue and orange. The Allen, Tex...

KAMLOOPS - Residents and Kamloops Curling Club members gathered for a Thursday (March 19) night send-off party to celebrate Matt Dunstone, who skipped Team Manitoba to the 2026 Brier Championship and earned the right to represent Canada at the World Championship this month. The skip, who hails from Winnipeg but lives i...

TORONTO - Montana's Brier champion Matt Dunstone and teammates Colton Lott and E.J. Harnden withdrew from the inaugural season of Rock League on Friday. Tyler Tardi, who won Olympic gold as an alternate with Team Brad Jacobs last month at the Milan Co...

KAMLOOPS - Kendra Woodland is the first person from Kamloops to play in the Professional Women's Hockey League.The rookie Ottawa Charge goaltender made her long-awaited debut on Wednesday [March 18] in relief of starting netminder Gwyneth Philips. The 26-year-old Woodland stopped 14 of 16 shots in relief after entering...

KAMLOOPS - Colton Sitter tallied with 35 seconds remaining in the third period, lifting his underdog Thompson Blazers to a 6-5 comeback victory and series sweep of the Vancouver North East Chiefs last weekend in Burnaby. The win over the Chiefs - who finished first in regular-season standings with a record of 26-6-0-2...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers' head coach Shaun Clouston is thrilled his players will be rewarded for enduring hard times, with his club heading to the playoffs for the first time since 2023. "We've had some real warriors, hard-working guys who have really stuck to it for three hockey seasons and competed hard,&quo...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers fell to the Prince George Cougars 3-2 in a shootout Tuesday (March 17) in a potential playoff preview. The Blazers opened the scoring in the first period in Prince George. Harrison Brunicke set up Nathan Behm in the slot to make it 1-0 Blazers early in the first period in Prince George....

KAMLOOPS - TRU WolfPack women's volleyball head coach Chad Grimm is confident his team is well-seasoned for the future. "Until you go through it, you don't know what it's going to feel like to be in the third match of a playoff series at home," Grimm said. "You don't know what it's going to be like in th...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Storm have their date for the final eight of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) playoffs. The Williams Lake Mustangs took down the Quesnel River Rush in seven games to punch their ticket to the Doug Birks Division Final. Blake Collison scored the winner 12:58 into overtime ...

KAMLOOPS - Kendra Woodland hopes to one day play a Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) game in Vancouver in front of a busload of friends and family from Kamloops. The undrafted Ottawa Charge rookie goaltender came tantalizingly close to achieving that goal on Saturday (March 14), backing up Gwyneth Philips in a...

KAMLOOPS - J.P. Hurlbert has been a sensation in his first year with the Kamloops Blazers.The 17-year-old forward from Allen, Tex., leads the team with 93 points in 63 games and he's likely to be picked in the first round of the 2026 NHL Draft.CFJC reporter Marty Hastings caught up with the Texas Tornado, challenging h...

KAMLOOPS - The nominees for the Kamloops Sports Council's 36th annual Athletic Awards have been unveiled. The awards will be presented Saturday, April 11 at the Coast Kamloops Hotel. The event will also feature the 2026 inductions into the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame. Athletic award nominees and award categories are a...

KAMLOOPS - Playoff hockey will be returning to Sandman Centre for the first time in three seasons. The Blazers punched their ticket to the postseason Sunday (March 15) after the WHL-leading Everett Silvertips beat the Portland Winterhawks 8-5. The result means Portland (29-30-6-1) will finish with a maximum of 69 point...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame has announced another two inductees who will be enshrined as part of the class of 2026. The 1980 Senior Women's volleyball team - the Kamloops Turbulence - are set to become the 29th team inducted into the Kamloops Sports of Fame. They'll be joined by the Kamloops Sports Lega...

MERRITT - A taste of déjà vu for the Merritt Centennials as their sophomore season in the KIJHL has come to an end at the hands of the Revelstoke Grizzlies.The Centennials were blown out 7-2 Saturday (March 14) night at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena as the Grizzlies took the best-of-seven series in six...

KAMLOOPS - Harrison Boettiger allowed just one goal for the second night in a row as the Kelowna Rockets beat the Kamloops Blazers 5-1 at Sandman Centre Saturday (March 14) night. Vojtech Cihar's hat trick paved the Rockets' offence as he scored a goal in each period to help the Rockets to their fourth wins in a row ag...

LANGLEY, B.C. - The best ever season in Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack women's volleyball history has come to an end on the second day of U SPORTS nationals. The seventh-seeded WolfPack clawed their way out of a two-set deficit, but they couldn't complete the comeback as they dropped a 3-2 (25-17, 25-16, 21-...

REVELSTOKE, B.C. - The Merritt Centennials have staved off elimination for the second time in three nights.The Centennials beat the Revelstoke Grizzlies 4-2 Friday (March 13) night in game five of their Bill Ohlhausen Divisional semi-final series at the Revelstoke Forum. Merritt trails the best-of-seven series 3-2 with...