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Team Gushue is going to the Olympics

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SASKATOON, SK – Brad Gushue and his team are will represent Canada at the Olympics once again. They defeated Brad Jacobs in a tight match in Saskatoon last night. What’s the secret to winning the 2021 Tim Hortons Curling Trials, presented by AGI, and getting to the Winter Olympic Games? Shooting the lights out for a week is a good plan, but also while wearing a bullet-proof vest. Team Brad Gushue is going back to the Winter Olympics as Canada’s men’s four-player team after holding off the rat-tat-tat shooting machine of Team Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., 4-3…

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Sink or Swim in Mount Pearl

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MOUNT PEARL, NL – The Mount Pearl Marlins hosted the Sink or Swim swim meet over this past weekend Nov 19-21 at the Mount Pearl Summit Centre.  Over 200 athletes took part in the 36 short and medium-distance events with swimmers breaking both provincial and club records despite almost two years without an official meet.   Teams came from Corner Brook, Stephenville, Port Aux Basque, Gander, Carbonear, CBS and St. John’s. Over 50 officials volunteered through out the weekend. Many swimmers qualified for higher level competitions at Provincial Championships to Eastern Canadian Nationals. Three provincial records were broken; James traverse from CBS…

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Growlers BASKETBALL! New CEBL team for Newfoundland.

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ST JOHN’S, Newfoundland – Deacon Sports and Entertainment has announced the will be bring a new CEBL -Canadian Elite Basketball League team to St John’s for the 2022 season and they are staying on-brand calling the team the Growlers. The new team will be playing at the Memorial University Field House under a three year $75,000.00 per year agreement with MUN. Mike Morreale Commissioner and CEO of the league joined Dean MacDonald of Deacon Sports and officials from MUN for the announcement at the Field House this morning. Growlers Basketball joins a league with nine other teams from across Canada…

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Super League Curling Draw #7

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ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland – A little shake up in Draw 7 of Remax Super League Curling last night with Sarah Hill’s team taking down the undefeated Team Crosbie 6-5 and Team O’Leary getting its first win defeating Team Strong 6-1. Important wins also for Greg Smith over Ryan McNiel Lamswood,  Trent Skanes over Ken Peddigrew and Alex Smith over Nathan Young as the standings tighten up again. Andrew Symond’s Team Crosbie is still all alone on the top of the leaderboard with 5 wins and 1 loss. Mark Noseworthy / Keith Bradbury Real Estate  and Trent Skanes / McInnes-Cooper are…

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Growlers and City kiss and make up …sort of.

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ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland – The Newfoundland Growlers and St John’s City Hall appear to have kissed and made up with news today that the Growlers will be returning to the Mary Brown Centre after being evicted from the building by city council three weeks ago over a charge of workplace harassment. Deacon Sports and Entertainment, owners if the growlers and St John’s Sports and Entertainment, operator of the Mary Brown Centre and own by City of St John’s reached an agreement today that could see the Growlers back in time to play their next home game on December 1st game.…

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Fieldian Gardens to get a new sponsor and renos

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ST JOHN’S, Newfoundland – Mile One is not the only hockey rink to get a new name this year. The historic Fieldian Gardens in Higher Levels has new name sponsors and injection of cash for renovations and upgrades. Welcome to the DF Barnes Arena. In the presence of some older members of the Fieldian Athletic  Association, Avalon Minor Hockey announced today at an event at the arena that DF Barnes has signed on for a 10 year deal that will put $300,000 dollars into Gardens and its renovations. Jason Fudge, president of DF Barnes They were looking for a community…

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