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It’s right about now Cochrane Generals head coach Evan McFeeters is rethinking his playing career as a hockey goalie. McFeeters will be between the pipes when the Cochrane Generals alumni team takes on the current squad Jan.

Cochrane Comets swimmer Jorden Rowsell picked up gold in the boys 12- 13-year-old 100-metre backstroke, and bronze in the 50m backstroke Dec. 15 at the 2013 Age Group Challenge swim meet in Calgary.

The Cochrane Generals are running out of bullets with the war just half over. Beset by injuries to key starters, and suspensions to others for fighting infractions, the Gens brought just 15 skaters to Didsbury for their Dec.

The St. Timothy High School Thunder junior-varsity boys basketball team won its Calgary Senior High School Athletic Association season-opener 70-55 against Calgary’s John G. Diefenbaker High School Dec. 12 in Calgary.

The Canadian Olympic team made it official Tuesday, Cochrane’s Tristan Walker is sliding for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

Patience is a virtue. In Brian Burke’s world, that virtue gets in the way of business – the business of winning National Hockey League games.

Looks can be deceiving. So when you see the smiling face of Taylor McElroy coming at you on the ice, you’d better look twice. The 14-year-old female dynamo is playing elite hockey with the Bow Valley Timberwolves bantam AA squad this season.

How do you go from being the whipping boy of the WHL, strung out to dry and at the bottom of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in points and goals in 2012-13, to leading the team in both categories in 2013-14? That’s something Cochrane’s Tyler Wong is still

Cochrane will be ringing with athletes from across Alberta this weekend at the fifth annual Cochrane Classic ringette tournament. Forty-two teams, with players ranging in age from 6-15, are in town for games starting 8 a.m. Dec.

Cochrane’s Tristan Walker took a silver medal for Canada in the team relay event at the World Cup luge event in Whistler, B.C., Dec. 7.