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PITTSBURGH 23 BALTIMORE 14

Single-draw tickets on sale today; goal of 100,000 tickets nearly reached

Six teams, including former B.C. junior women's curling champion Kristen Recksiedler of Richmond, will be gunning for the final spot into the B.C. Scotties Tournament of Hearts from today to Sunday at Juan de Fuca. Recksiedler, who won the B.C.

It has always been Julien Ellis's aim, as with just about every other goalie in the business, to have something in common with Roberto Luongo. Now Ellis does. But it isn't fame and a big-time contract. Not yet, anyway.

Canadian Tour event at Uplands changes dates, increases purse

Those who toil in the minor-pro ranks of sport are not exactly publicly recognizable figures outside their home-team market.

Alaska 6 Victoria 3

The Victoria Salmon Kings have played three three-game sets to start the ECHL season, winning one game in each and dropping two in each. Even remedial math tells you that is not a healthy pattern to get locked into. Percentages of .

Golf Town's Gordon Scutt was the big winner in this year's Vancouver Island Professional Tour. Scutt capped off an impressive season by winning the Tour Championship last week at Bear Mountain Golf Club.

It is obvious to anyone who has put in any time on the issue of increasing salmon populations that saving and restoring spawning and rearing habitat in rivers is the single most important issue to be tackled today.