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Host team outscores Pownal at Maritime junior C hockey championship

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated 4 minutes ago |1 min read Premium content

The host Sunny Corner Thunder outscored the Pownal Ice Dogs 11-6 in round-robin play at the 2024 Maritime junior C hockey championship tournament on April 25 in Miramichi, N.B. The Thunder improved to 2-0-0 while the Ice Dogs dropped to 0-2-0. Pownal ...

There was a lot of excitement April 20 at the West Hants Sports Complex when it was announced that about 600 athletes will be coming to the area for the 2025 Canadian Senior Broomball Championships. Pictured at the announcement were, from left, back row: West Hants Mayor Abraham Zebian, Mark Wainman, Darrell Lyttle, Adam Sexton, and Hants West MLA Melissa Sheehy-Richard; front row: Lily Isenor, Lennon Leopold, Seamus O’Brien, and Levi Caldwell.

Broomball nationals coming to West Hants, N.S., in April 2025

Carole Morris-Underhill · Lead editor Valley Journal-Advertiser |Updated 57 minutes ago |7 min read Premium content

For the third time since the 1970s, and the first time outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia will play host to the Canadian Senior Broomball Championships. West Hants has been awarded the 2025 national event, which will be held April 8-12 at the West Hants ...

Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers forward Carson MacKay, 16, carries the puck in Game 4 of the P.E.I. junior B hockey championship series against the Sherwood-Parkdale A&SScrap Metal Metros at Eastlink Centre on March 24. MacKay scored two goals in the Vipers’ 4-0 win over Newfoundland and Labrador’s St. John’s Caps at the Don Johnson Memorial Cup on April 25 in Mount Pearl, N.L. The win improved the Viper’s record to 2-1-0 (won-lost-overtime losses) and clinched a playoff spot in the Atlantic junior B hockey championship tournament. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers clinch semifinal berth at Don Johnson Memorial Cup

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

The Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers have clinched a playoff berth in the 2024 Don Johnson Memorial Cup in Mount Pearl, N.L. The Vipers blanked Newfoundland and Labrador’s St. John’s Caps 4-0 on April 26 to secure a spot in one of the two ...

Kensington Monaghan Farms Wild forward Lucas Thibeau, 22, works his way into the offensive zone, watched by Zakary Gagnon of the Magog Cantonniers during Telus Cup national under-18 hockey championship action at the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre in Membertou, N.S., on April 25. Magog won the game 3-2. Jeremy Fraser/SaltWire

P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild plays another close game at Telus Cup

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

Although still looking for their first win at the 2024 Telus Cup, the Kensington Monaghan Farms Wild has proven they can play with the best teams in Canada. The Wild, Atlantic Canadian champions, fell to 0-4-0 (won-lost-overtime losses) with a 3-2 ...

Athletics - Diamond League - Xiamen - Xiamen Egret Stadium, Xiamen, China - April 20, 2024 Christian Coleman of the U.S. celebrates after winning the men's 100m final

Athletics-American Coleman believes Bolt's 100m record could fall soon

Reuters |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -American sprinter Christian Coleman believes that Usain Bolt's 100-metres record of 9.58 seconds that has stood for 15 years is within reach and said there are several athletes fast enough to break it. "It seems like the times ...

Tennis - Madrid Open - Park Manzanares, Madrid, Spain - April 25, 2024 Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates winning his round of 128 match against Darwin Blanch of the U.S.

Tennis-Nadal wishes he could play long enough for his son to remember him on court

Reuters |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read

(Reuters) - Rafa Nadal said he would love to keep playing long enough for his son to remember him on court, though the 22-time Grand Slam champion concedes time is not on his side. The 37-year-old Spaniard, who has said he expects to retire after ...

Cape Breton Eagles goaltender Jakub Milota was named the team’s rookie of the year during the club’s annual awards banquet at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre on Tuesday. JEREMY FRASER/CAPE BRETON POST

QMJHL: Cape Breton Eagles’ Jakub Milota competing in IIHF World Under-18 Hockey Championship for Czechia

Jeremy Fraser · Multimedia journalist |Updated 7 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. – Cape Breton Eagles goaltender Jakub Milota will suit up for Czechia at the 2024 IIHF World Under-18 Hockey Championship in Espoo and Vantaa, Finland. The Eagles confirmed the news early Thursday afternoon after Milota was listed as the ...

Martin Lavallée, assistant commissioner of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League, holds the winning lottery ball with the Cape Breton Eagles logo on it during the league’s draft lottery on Thursday night. The Eagles won the lottery and will pick first overall at the 2024 QMJHL Entry Draft in June in Moncton. CONTRIBUTED/VINCENT ETHIER, QMJHL

Beating the odds: Cape Breton Eagles win QMJHL Draft Lottery, pick first overall for fourth time in franchise history in June

Jeremy Fraser · Multimedia journalist |Updated 8 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. – The Cape Breton Eagles will pick first overall at the 2024 Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League Entry Draft in June. Cape Breton received the first overall selection by winning the league’s draft lottery on Thursday evening during a ...

Toothbrushes and toiletries are seen in a cell shared by three people in the Villepinte detention centre in Villepinte, near Paris, France, April 8, 2024.

Ahead of Olympics, a packed Paris prison braces for crowds of inmates

Layli Foroudi |Updated 8 hours ago |6 min read

By Layli Foroudi VILLEPINTE, France (Reuters) - A police crackdown that aims to clear a poor suburb of petty crime and street vendors before the Paris 2024 Olympics is putting pressure on an overcrowded prison operating at almost double its ...

Apr 25, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey (0) dunks the ball against the New York Knicks during the second half of game three of the first round for the 2024 NBA playoffs at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

NBA roundup: Sixers trip Knicks behind Joel Embiid's 50

Reuters |Updated 9 hours ago |2 min read

Joel Embiid set a playoff career high with 50 points to lift host Philadelphia past the New York Knicks 125-114 on Thursday, cutting the 76ers' deficit in the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series to 2-1. Embiid shot 13 of 19 from the field ...

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