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Kazakh figure skating prodigy to prepare for 2010 Winter Games in Prince George The judges are scoring the Spruce City Skating Club's latest achievement a perfect Ten.

The winner will be all alone in first place. So, when the UNBC Northern Timberwolves and UBC Okanagan Heat step onto the Northern Sport Centre court tonight, there will be no shortage of intensity.

As a player, Joe Rea has always wanted to wear a Team Canada jacket. In 37 years of curling, he hasn't yet achieved his goal. As a coach, well, that's a different story.

Sarah Beaudry loves biathlon and is good enough to be racing for Canada this weekend at the world junior/youth championships in Sweden. But she won't be in Europe and she won't be attending this weekend's B.C.

Kenny Lally won't be coming home empty-handed from the Canadian senior national championships. Although Lally lost his bout in Ste. Hyacinthe, Que.

Still licking the wounds from a seven-game homestand that resulted in seven straight losses, the Prince George Cougars boarded the bus for the trip south to the Okanagan.

The timing was just about perfect for Keith Sullivan. On the day he retired after 38 years as a millwright at Prince George Pulp and Paper, the 60-year-old Sullivan received word Thursday he's won the B.C. Ringette president's award.

Seeking first victory, new indoor soccer team's playing roster could see sweeping changes this weekend The world of pro sports is cruel -- judged by wins and losses, not by moral victories.

KELOWNA -- Hudson Stremmel put up an impressive stat on Friday night: 48 saves. Tyson Barrie, though, had his number.

LINEUP CARD COLUMN It's right. It just is. An Olympian, carrying the Olympic flame.