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National champion. Cochrane’s Devon Fordyce can now add that tidbit to his resume. The Brooks Bandits backup goalie returned from the RBC Cup national Junior A hockey championship in Summerside, P.E.I., to a hero’s welcome May 21 in Brooks.

After a slap-happy start to the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) season, Cochrane bull rider Steven Turner has bucked his way to the early-season lead.

Cochrane’s Heritage Junior Hockey League team is still accepting applications for a new bench general.

Last week the topic in this space was about two older men still going at the ripe, old ages of 91 and 94. And that got me to thinking about just how long I’ve been around.

Setting Guinness World Records has become a regular pastime for Cochrane’s Marathon Man Martin Parnell, so why not shake things up a bit? At this year’s Calgary Marathon, Parnell will do just that, by attempting to set a brand-new world record by run

The season record will say 0-7. What it won’t say is how many players will return to their high-school football programs with more tools in their toolbox.

The North’s game plan seemed simple enough. Just run the ball away from Cochrane High School Cobras defensive back Logan Blair.

Three Cochrane-area football players have made the grade for Alberta’s U18 (Grades 10-11) football team.

The Cochrane High School Cobras girls track team fielded some impressive results at the Nike Grand Prix meet May 11 in Toronto. Cobras track coach Esther Sieben couldn’t be happier. “We did really well,” an elated Sieben said. “We just, yeah.

You want to win? You want to be the best in the world? You want to go to the Olympics? Then you’d better be prepared to hurt. Springbank snowboard-cross racer Michelle Brodeur, who now calls Whistler, B.C.