SPORTS CHECK: Coaches and officials wanted
November 3, 2018 - Nunavut
Iqaluit
Nunavut Speed Skating is looking for a few good people to help out with its coaching and officiating needs for this season.
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SPORTS TALK: A sad end to a great love story
November 3, 2018 - NWT/Nunavut
Two years ago, Leicester City Football Club was the toast of the sports world after putting the exclamation mark on one of the greatest sports fairy tales ever written. The little team that could, 5,000-to-1 long shots to win the English Premier League, hoisted the trophy that was usually reserved for the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City.
Read MoreRecreation and Parks Association of Nunavut hosts sixth annual conference
November 3, 2018 - Iqaluit
Judging by the turnout this year, it would appear sport and recreation in Nunavut is pretty healthy.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: New futsal league set for action
November 2, 2018 - Yellowknife
The NWT Futsal League is NWT Soccer’s newest project and it all begins this weekend.
Read MoreSPORTS TALK: We asked for it and now we’ve got it
November 2, 2018 - Yellowknife
You know all those times I’ve talked about how our young hockey players need to play in a higher level of competition on a regular basis?
Well, a bunch of them are and they’re finding out just what major AAA hockey is all about.
Read MoreRough season for Yk players in B.C. bantam hockey season
November 2, 2018 - Yellowknife
Growing pains are going to happen every time a new team comes together. The Vegas Golden Knights were the exception to that rule last season but the Yukon Rivermen aren’t the Vegas Golden Knights.
Read MoreVolleyball teams from Hay River schools claim six medals in Fort Smith
October 31, 2018 - Hay River/Fort Smith
Teams from Hay River made an impact at the annual Lawrie Hobart Memorial Volleyball Tournament in Fort Smith.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: Communities set for battle in Nunavut
October 30, 2018 - Nunavut
Iqaluit
The first big futsal tournament of the new season is on the horizon and it’s happening in Iqaluit.
Read MoreFull house for NWT Recreation and Parks Association conference
October 29, 2018 - Yellowknife
Another year, another week of learning and talking about recreation and healthy communities.
That’s what the NWT Recreation and Parks Association (RPA) did in Yellowknife earlier this month as it hosted its annual conference from Oct. 23 to 25. Almost every community in the territory had at least one representative at the conference, which centered around the theme of Intergenerational Connections.
Read MoreSPORTS TALK: Professional wrestling is very real sometimes – just ask Joe Anoa’i
October 29, 2018 - NWT/Nunavut
You know the best way to troll millennials? Play a song they have no clue about and watch them eat it up.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: Time to Spike It
October 29, 2018 - NWT
Somba K’e/Yellowknife
The first of the Spike It! volleyball tournaments in Yellowknife is in the books.
Read MoreGame on in Rankin Inlet
October 26, 2018 - Rankin Inlet
Almost 200 minor hockey aged players got their new season off to a riveting start at the annual Rankin Rock Season Opener hockey camp in Rankin Inlet from Oct. 14 to 19.
Read MoreEveryone’s a winner in Fort Smith volleyball tournament
October 25, 2018 - Thebacha/Fort Smith
If you’re only sending a small contingent to a tournament, you’d better make it count.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: Kevin Koe starts strong
October 25, 2018 - Yellowknife
The latest stop on the Grand Slam of Curling circuit is off and running and it all got going Wednesday for Kevin Koe.
Read MoreIqaluit Amateur Hockey Association joins in on World Girls Hockey Weekend
October 25, 2018 - Iqaluit
The weekend of Oct. 5 to 7 was World Girls Hockey Weekend, an event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation to help grow the game on the female side.
Read MoreFutsal coach makes return trip
October 22, 2018
One year ago, Kyt Selaidopoulos came to Yellowknife from his home in Montreal and gave everyone he came in contact with a true futsal education, one which some said was needed for a territory still learning the soccer variant.
Fast-forward to now and he likes what’s happened since then.
Read MoreSports Check with James McCarthy
October 22, 2018 - Yellowknife
Time to spike it
The next big scholastic sports tournament in the NWT is about to get underway.
Read MoreEugene Roach stops them all
October 22, 2018 - Yellowknife
It’s only fitting that in a game where he was the guest of honour, Eugene Roach would post a shutout.
That’s what he did as nothing got past him in regulation time in a charity hockey game at the Multiplex on Saturday evening.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: A night of awards in Iqaluit
October 22, 2018 - Nunavut
Iqaluit
The Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut (RPAN) was busy in the capital earlier this month with education and awards on the agenda.
Read MoreRecreation leaders go to school
October 22, 2018 - NWT
Recreation co-ordinators and directors around the NWT are always looking to find ways to provide programming.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: Recreation conference set to begin
October 22, 2018 - NWT
Somba K’e/Yellowknife
It’s the biggest time of the year for the NWT Recreation and Parks Association.
Read MoreSPORTS TALK: Usain Bolt is about to take over another sport
October 21, 2018 - NWT
Emotional support squirrels. That’s what this has come to in 2018.
If you don’t know by now, a woman was kicked off a Frontier Airlines flight in Orlando, Florida after she tried to bring her emotional support squirrel onto the flight that was heading to Cleveland earlier this month.
Read MoreJordin Tootoo hangs ’em up
October 19, 2018 - Rankin Inlet/Brandon, Man.
The Tootoo Train has stopped at an NHL station for the final time.
Read MoreInuvik holds fifth annual Paulou Ittungna volleyball tournament
October 19, 2018 - Inuvik
With a men’s final game score of 3-0, Team Barry ended the JLT Eagles’ two-year winning streak at the Paulou Ittungna Memorial Regional Volleyball Tournament last weekend.
Read MoreMajor League Soccer comes to Yellowknife
October 17, 2018 - Yellowknife
Hockey camps in Yellowknife have always had top-notch instructors with impressive resumes come up from the south and teach what they’ve taught to National Hockey League players.
Read MoreGO Ball hosts annual basketball Tournament
October 17, 2018 - Yellowknife
It’s one of the most popular girls-only sporting events going today in Yellowknife and the 2018 version hit St. Pat’s and Weledeh Gymnasiums for its latest go-round.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: Futsal coach returns
October 17, 2018 - Yellowknife
The head coach of Canada’s men’s national futsal team is coming back to town for a second straight year to work with NWT Soccer.
Read MoreDT Electric Futures U14 boys team takes shape after tryouts
October 17, 2018 - Yellowknife
Having 28 potential players to choose from is a good problem to have for any coach.
It means the interest is there.
Read MoreSurprise invitation to play with Yk team at national soccer championships
October 16, 2018 - Hay River
A young soccer player from Hay River got to experience a national championship tournament earlier this month after a surprise invitation to compete with a team from Yellowknife.
Read MoreSPORTS CHECK: Hockey time in Iqaluit
October 16, 2018 - Nunavut
