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Super League Curling. Dec 3 Update

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ST. JOHN’S, NL –  A change up in the standings this week at the RE/Max Centre, St John’s Curling Club Super League of Curling with Andrew Symonds /Team Northbrook taking over the top spot with a 7-1 record, McNeil Lamswood moving into second with 7-2 and Greg Smith, 6 and 1, dropping to third. This week there where three teams with a bye. Northbrook, Cory Schuh and Godsland.    …

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The Battles of The Brads steals the show

The Battles of The Brads brings the entertainment but Mouat wins the show. By Jonathan Brazeau / GSOC.  ST JOHN’S, NL – The 2024 Grand Slam of Curling wrapped up in St John’s over the weekend and home town favourite Brad Gushue and his team didn’t not make the cut. He lost to Brad Jacobs in the Quarter Finals and failed to advance to the semi-finals. Billed as the “Battle of the Brads” between superstar skips Brad Jacobs and Brad Gushue in the series, but the intensity had never been amped up to this level even when they met in…

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NLAA Hall of Fame announced

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ST. JOHN’S, NL – The Newfoundland and Labrador Athletics association (NLAA) announced today by Joe Ryan, chair of the Athletics Hall of Fame Selection Committee, which also includes Don Coaker, Wulf Stender and Will Gough, that two former outstanding athletics and three builders (officials, coaches or volunteers) will be formally inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at a November 29 ceremony at the Track and Field Building in Mount Pearl. Allison Hobeika and Tracy Hussey will enter the hall as athletes, while Doug Halliday, Bill Pomeroy and Rosemary Ryan Forsey will be entering the Hall as builders. Inductions to…

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Nov 26 Super League Curling

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Skip Greg Smith throwing last rock. Photo by Greg Locke. ST. JOHN’S, NL – No big changes in the leader board last night at the Super League Curling at the Re/Max Centre. The leaders, Greg Smith, Andrew Symonds’ Northbrook team, McNeil Lamswood Jeff Thomas and Team Schuh all won their matches. Greg Smith maintains a perfect score with 6 wins and zero losses or ties. Symonds is close behind with 6 wins and 1 loss and McNiel Lamswood in third with 6 wins and 2 losses. Here are the full current standings. …

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The Bad Behaviour Bears

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  The Bad Behaviour Bears. At what point is bad behaviour punished? By Jason Pike MOBILE, NL – A lot of people in today’s generation might not get the reference of the Bad News Bears! But it’s what came to mind when witnessing the Beaconsfield Saxons this past weekend.  It’s not often that a sports team manages to garner the ire of all of there peers. Let alone in grade 9 boys basketball. Even more so when the problem isn’t the actual players but when the problem, insurmountably, is the parents of said players and the team’s coach. To anyone…

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Rule The Court Basketball

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  By Jason Pike MOBILE, NL – This past week the annual Rule The Court tournament kicked off at Mobile Central High School. Sitting back watching the Mobile Monarch Nines play the Mount Pearl Intermediate Nines, it was easy to see that these teams were severely mismatched. The home town Monarchs quickly put their foot on the throttle and never let it off all game. This has been a common theme for this particular group of boys from Mount Pearl Intermediate and it begs the question at such a large school why is it such an issue to put together…

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