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The University of Victoria Vikes men's basketball team will have its first test against Canadian Interuniversity Sport opposition tonight at McKinnon Gym.

Sam Rice and Brody Coulter were joking around prior to the start of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League season, half-heartedly tossing out triple-digit point totals as personal goals to their year with the Victoria Cougars.

While the world’s best golfers were battling in the Ryder Cup at Medinah, the Island’s top young golfers were holding their own version of the event at Glacier Greens in Comox.

Any inspiration Victoria Royals forward Jamie Crooks — last season’s leading scorer and team MVP who has only one assist in four games this season — needed may have been right there in front of him during practice Tuesday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Ce

Victoria golfer triumphs at amateur event in U.S

Call it addition by omission. As Steelers coach Mike Tomlin rattled off the status of injured players on Tuesday, three names were noticeably absent: Rashard Mendenhall, James Harrison and Troy Polamalu. It wasn't an oversight by Tomlin.

The Kontinental Hockey League says some of its games will be broadcast in the United States on ESPN3 during the NHL lockout.

The NHL lockout has already cost the league almost $100 million in lost revenue. That figure will likely end up looking like chump change by the time the sport's latest labour dispute is settled.

GAME DAY: CHIVAS AT VANCOUVER, 7 P.M

Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland took Miguel Cabrera out in the fifth inning of Tuesday night's 4-2 loss to the Kansas City Royals. "You do a lot of things instinctively as a manager," Leyland said. "I said, 'You know what, three at-bats is enough.