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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.

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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.

The University of Victoria Vikes women's field hockey season has been like a wild roller-coaster ride. The team experienced many highs and lows in Canada West play, posting a record of six wins, four losses and two ties.

The investment in bringing the FIFA Under 20 World Cup to Victoria may pay off in short-term gains for sporting goods stores, fast-food vendors and beer sales, but the significant economic impact is more likely to be felt in the long-term according t

You couldn't miss them. They were the ones decked out in red and black Adidas gear or white T-shirts and black shorts. They were the volunteers, and they're a big reason Victoria is now on FIFA's world soccer map.

Czech Republic rallies from two-goal deficit, defeats Japan on penalty kicks