Baseball in Edmonton is the strongest it’s been in years. The 2018 season will likely feature three AAA baseball teams. With programs offering elite coaching, great facilities and great learning opportunities, Edmonton has seen many players sent to colleges across...
Over the past few years, baseball has turned into one long, massively boring snooze-fest. Ever since Babe Ruth broke out with the Yankees all the way back in 1920, the home run has been an integral part of Major League Baseball. Recently, teams have been stacking...
After successful seasons by the men’s and women’s NAIT soccer teams, both teams managed to make the national championships. The women played in Halifax while the men were in Nanaimo. Unfortunately, the women just missed out on a medal, settling for fourth for the...
Talent is not always enough to achieve greatness in sports. As much as it takes depth in a team’s lineup to succeed, a pair of players can often be complete gamechangers. Zubeir Hussein and Machot Magok of NAIT’s men’s basketball team are beginning to look like...
I have given in to an addiction that many sports fans have in North America. As I sit in front of my computer writing this, I have a Toronto Raptors game on my TV, an Oklahoma City Thunder game on my computer minimized in the bottom right corner and a live stats feed...
A rivalry continues after 27 years as the NAIT Ooks take on the U of A Golden Bears at Northlands Coliseum. This will be a charity exhibition match by the name of Face-Off 2017, which will be on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. This meeting will be the Ooks and Bears eighth ever...
The NAIT men’s soccer team won silver at the 2017 ACAC Soccer Championship, which NAIT hosted in Sherwood Park from Oct. 28-30. NAIT started off the tournament well, with a quarter-finals 3-2 win over Medicine Hat. Ali Musse started the match off strong for the NAIT...
In Edmonton we have some amazing athletes. Andrew Ference, Alphonso Davies and Mark Messier, to name only a few. All of our home-town athletes, however, needed training and lots of practice to reach their current levels of skill. That’s what schools like St. Francis...
Greg Francis, a former professional basketball player and coach has been brought in as an assistant by longtime friend and Ooks head coach Mike Connolly with the goal of getting the Ooks back to championship status. His experience on both ends of the court will be an...
It’s that time of year when we wear poppies over our hearts to honour the men and women who have fought for our freedom. Every year around Remembrance Day, I can’t believe people put their lives on hold for their country. We wouldn’t be able to sit down on our couch...
