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Teens fight city hall, win bike track
SARNIA -- A group of teens has convinced city hall to spare their controversial bike track from the bulldozer.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Sleepy Gemini count on adrenalin
Mike Bossy is hoping his Tillsonburg senior girls' basketball team has plenty in its adrenalin tank. The Gemini are going to need it.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Oaks puzzled over seeding
So Oakridge Oaks, what have you done for us lately?
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Features/Columns |
Teens fight city hall, win bike track (Nov. 20, 2008)
SARNIA -- A group of teens has convinced city hall to spare their controversial bike track from the bulldozer.
Highland hopes 50th one for the books (Nov. 14, 2008)
The Highland Country Club is hoping to celebrate 50 years of curling in record-setting fashion.
Buddy saves pal in pool (Nov. 8, 2008)
A 15-year-old student had a brush with death when he suffered a seizure and sank to the bottom of a south London pool only to be rescued by a friend.
Gyms take a page from armed forces (Nov. 7, 2008)
Drop and give me 20!
Quiet Patton gets his due (Nov. 6, 2008)
For a lot of years Londoner Casey Patton fought the good fight.
Rink heads north in search of mixed gold (Nov. 6, 2008)
They may have "done that'' in terms of winning a provincial mixed curling title, but they've never "been there'' when it comes to playing for a national championship in Nunavut.
THE CITY: Confidence within pays big dividends (Nov. 5, 2008)
Standing beneath a hoop in the gym at London's Thames secondary school, Melvin Adams is doing things with a basketball -- making it float, roll and glide round his body -- that seem to defy gravity.
Lottery shot in arm for local athletes (Nov. 4, 2008)
Financial support from Ontario's Quest for Gold Lottery was "like a light in the darkness" for London Olympian Adam Kreek, the gold-medal rower says.
Adrenaline pumping at new training centre (Nov. 2, 2008)
If you're into grappling, kicking, hitting and punching, there's a new place in the east-end for you.
Pearn engineers Sprint to NASCAR (Oct. 31, 2008)
There were times when an 18-year-old Cole Pearn would daydream that his trips around Delaware Speedway were actually being done on a grander scale -- in NASCAR.
Induction, volunteer recognition embrace community (Oct. 29, 2008)
More people are being given the opportunity to share in the celebration of the newest inductees into the London Sports Hall of Fame.
PEOPLE AT PLAY: Spirit of sport in fitness advocate's blood (Oct. 29, 2008)
Barry Fay is 78 years young.
New centre muscles in (Oct. 26, 2008)
Brent Lanker leaps from side to side on something that looks like it should be on an industrial shop floor rather than a fitness centre, then jumps off as he begins to break a sweat.
No offseason for Canadian stars (Oct. 25, 2008)
Teammates Adam Stern and Chris Robinson sat 15 rows up from the finish line at the Bird's Nest in Beijing when Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt blazed past for 100-metre gold.
Ice dance champ sidelined (Oct. 24, 2008)
The good news is Tessa Virtue is going to be fine and will skate again.
COLUMN: Legionnaires look good early (Oct. 23, 2008)
It takes no time at all to measure the on-ice success of the Sarnia Legionnaires.
TRACKSIDE: Vickers ignores history (Oct. 23, 2008)
The news yesterday that Red Bull Racing's No. 83 Toyota team was using shaved sheet metal on Brian Vickers' car -- at least at Martinsville last week -- begs the question about people not learning from others' mistakes.
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Fall in the City |
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Oaks puzzled over seeding (Nov. 20, 2008)
So Oakridge Oaks, what have you done for us lately?
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Sleepy Gemini count on adrenalin (Nov. 20, 2008)
Mike Bossy is hoping his Tillsonburg senior girls' basketball team has plenty in its adrenalin tank. The Gemini are going to need it.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Injury increases CCH's challenge (Nov. 15, 2008)
Since its inception in 2002, the TVRAA senior football challenge game has always been won by the Central Conference champion.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Oaks work for trip to OFSAA (Nov. 14, 2008)
The Oakridge Oaks may not play a tougher senior boys' volleyball match all year -- and they're headed to the provincial championship.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Renewed Pantheres exceed team goals (Nov. 14, 2008)
A year ago, Centre Desloges didn't have a senior girls' basketball team. Now, the Pantheres are celebrating their first trip to the provincials.
City in line for worlds (Nov. 11, 2008)
London may be the centre of the figure skating universe in either 2012 or 2013.
Return to ice will be on Virtue's terms (Nov. 11, 2008)
Tessa Virtue returns to the ice next week as she and ice dance partner Scott Moir resume their pursuit of a world championship.
Driver's moves earn him award (Nov. 11, 2008)
D.J. Kennington has learned a thing or two during his first full season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
Crusaders extinguish Flames (Nov. 9, 2008)
Three years in exile was long enough. The Catholic Central Crusaders wanted their football crown back.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Coaching buddies to meet in final (Nov. 8, 2008)
Joe Murray and Mike Circelli have known each other since Grade 1. They attended Catholic Central together and played on the Crusaders' 1972 London Conference senior football champions.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Jaguars' outburst swamps Oaks (Nov. 8, 2008)
For a moment -- a brief moment -- the hopes of an upset flickered for the Oakridge Oaks.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Oaks make up for some lost time (Nov. 8, 2008)
So, was it worth the wait?
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Your Money |
Canadians pleased with lower pay (Sep. 11, 2008)
If you want to feel rich, it's better to be a Canadian than an American, a poll suggests.
Banking giant on mission to help small businesses grow bigger (Sep. 10, 2008)
Scotiabank's campaign to help small business owners grow their businesses literally rolled into London yesterday.
Students' optimism unshaken (Sep. 9, 2008)
When I graduated from college on the West Coast back in the early '90s, I was ready to take on the world, no matter what.
A lesson in saving cash is priceless (Sep. 3, 2008)
Driving through the city on Sunday and Monday -- through the throngs of fresh-faced frosh and academic achievers that lined Richmond Row -- I felt a twinge of nostalgia.
Buy school supplies --and survive (Aug. 30, 2008)
I've been writing a lot this week about shopping and customer service -- two things likely to come into play for many of us over this last long weekend before the kiddies head back to class.
More men shop for groceries (Aug. 28, 2008)
Shopping is a staple in every Canadian home.
Customers have had it with long wait times (Aug. 27, 2008)
Have you ever left a store or restaurant or any lineup, really, in frustration at what you perceive to be poor service?
Many Canadians anxious about their finances (Aug. 7, 2008)
If you're anxious about your personal finances -- so much so that you don't even want to talk about them -- you're not alone.
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Games/Gadgets |
VIDEO GAMES: Apocalypse wow (Nov. 9, 2008)
Biology class taught us that not all mutations are necessarily bad. Scrambling a critter's genetic code might cause horrifying defects, but it's also part of evolution, right? Two opposable thumbs up for natural selection!
Win Gears of War 2 (Nov. 9, 2008)
To celebrate the release of Gears Of War 2 for the Xbox 360, we're giving eight readers a chance to nab a copy of the game (retail value $60), and two extra-lucky folks a shot at walking away with the game plus a limited edition, crimson red Xbox 360 wireless controller (retail value $130), courtesy of Xbox Canada.<
VIDEO GAMES: War is swell (Nov. 9, 2008)
As Gears Of War 2 wound its way through its two-year development process, the game's lead creative visionary -- cowlick'd man-child Cliff Bleszinski -- repeated again and again that it was going to be "bigger, better and more badass" that 2006's original Gears Of War, which sold a staggering five million copies.
POV: How dangerous are video games really? (Nov. 7, 2008)
Is it possible to be addicted to a video game in the same way alcoholics are addicted to booze and gambling addicts are addicted to poker and slots?
GAME FILE: The axe factor (Nov. 6, 2008)
Like a legendary band getting together for a big-budget reunion concert, Guitar Hero World Tour has arrived with a whole host of expectations to live up to. Some fair, some not.
Level building 101 (Nov. 2, 2008)
1. Do the tutorials
VIDEO GAMES: The joy of sacks (Nov. 2, 2008)
When I was a little kid -- and I mean a child in body, as opposed to my eternal adult adolescence -- I used to have a Sunday night post-dinner ritual, in which I'd try to build a working elevator for my Hot Wheels cars using just Lego bricks and fishing twine.
GAME FILE: Fabulous Fable (Oct. 30, 2008)
If the Brothers Grimm had lived in this day and age, they might have forgone writing creepy folk stories about sugar-addicted children who murder witches and instead created a video game like Fable II.
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Television |
TELEVISION: Embrace the nerd within (Nov. 17, 2008)
At 22, Kaley Cuoco is the type of person for whom Beach Boys songs were written.
TELEVISION: It's not easy being green (Nov. 16, 2008)
A huge chunk of David Suzuki's environmental message has been a direct response to the cynicism of his youngest daughter.
TELEVISION: New series to probe science of lying (Nov. 15, 2008)
It's sounds like a perfect opportunity for a cross-promotion featuring Simon Cowell.
TELEVISION: South Park greets the Obama era (Nov. 14, 2008)
Stan's dad Randy Marsh always has been king of the bandwagon-jumpers on South Park, but his reaction to Barack Obama's victory takes it to a new level.
Entertainment Buzz (Nov. 13, 2008)
Who hasn't done the Macarena?
House Party's lead no party animal at all (Nov. 12, 2008)
It's a teenage rite of passage, on par with getting your driver's licence or losing your virginity: Hosting your first unsupervised shaker while Mom and Dad are away for the weekend.
Danceoff down to its final 10 (Nov. 11, 2008)
With So You Think You Can Dance Canada, we at last have a TV show that caters to all five of our senses.
Specials recognize supreme efforts of fallen (Nov. 10, 2008)
The digital revolution in television has been a mixed blessing at best. But if you love documentaries, this really is a golden age.
TELEVISION: Modesty becomes him (Nov. 9, 2008)
Ryan Kwanten must be used to wearing a modesty patch by now.
W-Five exposes citizenship scam (Nov. 8, 2008)
W-Five begins its 43rd season tonight.
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