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GAME DAY: VICTORIA AT TRAIL, 7: 30 P.M. The Victoria Grizzlies head out on a three-game road trip packing a four-game win streak in their suitcases. Extending that to seven victories will be a tough test as the B.C.

David Stern spent nearly 30 years growing the NBA, turning a league that couldn't even get its championship series on live prime-time TV into a projected $5 billion a year industry.

Q: Please mention circle hooks for fishing Sooke River chum. Since I switched, I have not snagged a single one. - Rob Turner A: I use Mustad Size 2, C71S SS, which are mid-length streamer hooks. Foul-hooking is not fishing.

Adherents of the various sports like to claim, in most cases justifiably, that Victoria has proven to be a baseball, rugby, lacrosse, basketball, running, rowing, cycling and triathlon town.

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Unlike many people in hockey, John Davidson wasn't afraid of the losing tradition of the Columbus Blue Jackets. "I like the idea of the challenge. I mean, it's possible.

The University of Victoria Vikes men's basketball team didn't have any defence for the long ball on Wednesday at McKinnon Gym.

European soccer's big reputations counted for nothing Wednesday as Real Madrid, AC Milan, Manchester City and Arsenal all lost in the Champions League, while Paris Saint-Germain cruised to a comfortable 2-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb.

Considering the short list of surprisingly impressive teams in the NFL this season, the Minnesota Vikings haven't gotten much love. That could change tonight.

The New York Islanders finally have a new home and it's in Brooklyn, the borough that is suddenly a hot bed of pro sports 54 years after baseball's Dodgers headed west.