Local Sports

It didn’t end the way they’d have liked, but local players Des Catellier, Justin Sambu and Dan Teitz brought home equipment bags full of elite football experience from Football Canada Cup.

Bow Valley Grizzlies scrum half, Ian Ames, gets his hands on the ball a lot. Tasked with plucking the ball from scrums and rucks, it’s Ames’s job to either take off with the ball or determine where to distribute it. Options are good.

Teams can get lost in the shuffle when leagues realign divisions. When Calgary Women’s Soccer Association (CWSA) re-did its age-group divisions to start this season, Cochrane Rangers had to re-assign various players to match the groups.

Somewhere, between goes, Cochrane bullrider Beau Brooks will find the time to be in the delivery room for the birth of his second child.

Team Alberta started off on the right foot at the Football Canada Cup tournament in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., on July 13.

There are plenty of explanations for seeing double in scorching Calgary summer heat at high noon on Saturday. For those at Calgary Rugby Park on July 11, the explanation was legit. Ben and Ollie Mayo suited up for Cochrane’s Bow Valley Grizzlies.

Snakebit. Hexed. Jinxed. Whatever. Tanner Milan’s second Calgary Stampede Championship Sunday steer-wrestling final in three years ended the same way as the first – with no time. Except this time it wasn’t a broken barrier.

Catching up to the Flying Fike Brothers can be tough. They move fast – 60 km/h down the back stretch. They slowed down long enough to chat while preparing for a night of racing at Calgary Stampede.

He had a horse named Charley, and it hurt like hell. So bad, in fact, it drove him to stop drinking. Since then, he’s won $10,000 on tour.

Born to run. That’s what anyone working with thoroughbreds will tell you about their horses, including chuckwagon racers.