By Jason Pike St John’s, NL – In its time that the NLSA start regionalization teams and programs? To truly grow soccer the way it needs to here in this province more specifically here on the Avalon Peninsula should they perhaps adopt the same formula that hockey has which is…
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By Jason Pike St John’s, NL – The Mobile Monarchs senior boys took on the St Kevin’s Mavericks senior B team on Monday night. And it was apparent right from the start that the monarchs are in for a very long season. Only 2 years ago the monarchs were AA…
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By Jason Pike Youth sports thrive on volunteers, that is no big secret, and in a lot of situations there wouldn’t be functioning organizations and teams without said volunteers. A lot of the times it consists of parents of children involved, or family members of those involved, that’s just a…
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By Jason Pike ST. John’s, NL – Many years ago, when high school sports was called the Newfoundland High School athletics Association, the way schools competed were drafted out by the population of your school. Leap ahead several decades the name has changed but the structure has stayed the same!…
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By Jason Pike The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association (MWBA) is an amateur league designed for women 19 and over and offers a competitive environment under a well-maintained operation including an involved executive and board of directors made up almost entirely of women. No one can argue the fact that women’s basketball has…
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BasketBall Life after high school By Jason Pike ST JOHN’S, NL – If you, like me, have followed the basketball landscape around this province closely you will notice that those great players that, for two or three years everyone knew, just faded into obscurity. Sure some of them go on…
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Take me out to the ball game: Could St. John’s support a Pro baseball team By Jason Pike At any given night during summer in St John’s you can often find St Pat’s ballpark buzzing with players and fans underneath the lights. Because baseball over the years has developed his…
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By Jason Pike St. John’s, NL – I think the answer to the question is St John’s is a basketball town or not is a resounding yes! Well if that is the case why can’t the Newfoundland Rogues replicate the massive success of the St John’s Edge? Well that’s a…
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By Jason Pike ST. JOHN’S, NL – As a province with only 500,000 people, the number of Youth athletes that compete for positions on teams to represent Newfoundland at the national level is an even smaller pool. As a parent of an athlete and a former athlete, I myself and…
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By Jason Pike ST. JOHN’S, NL – When social media quickly became flooded with angry and worried posts from students’ , coaches and parents of the enforcement of a mandatory teacher sponsors for practices, tournaments and games for all school sports, my mind quickly reverted back to 2021 when our…
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