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Patti Knezevic will take aim at a provincial curling title beginning today.

The B.C. long track speed skating championships at the Outdoor Ice Oval were a test event in more ways than one for organizers.

Two teams at opposite ends of the generosity spectrum will clash tonight at CN Centre. The Everett Silvertips are the second-most miserly team in the Western Hockey League this season. Through 42 games they've allowed just 112 goals, an average of 2.

The Cariboo Cougars rallied in the third period with a pair of late goals for a 5-4 victory over the South Island Royals Sunday in Victoria.

Gary Cormack stole two points in the final two ends to edge Frank LaBounty 7-6 in the final of the B.C. wheelchair curling championship Sunday in Richmond.

Braiden Epp got a little bit wild with his celebration of the go-ahead goal Sunday afternoon against the Coquitlam Express and it led to a few dicey moments for the Prince George Spruce Kings.

As of Sunday, the temperature difference between Athens, Greece and Prince George was 15 degrees Celsius. Athens was a balmy plus-15 degrees, while Prince George hovered around zero. For Eleni Steriopoulou, that's quite the shock to the system.

The ice was hard and fast on Saturday, until Mother Nature let out a breath of spring over the Exhibition Park speed skating oval.

Lucas Hiller was just a little guy the last time he raced on an outdoor speed skating oval in Prince George. Now he's 19 and the novelty of racing outdoors in his hometown was not lost on him Sunday at the Exhibition Park ice oval.

RUHPOLDIONG, Germany (AP) -- On a day when Prince George biathlete Megan Heinicke posted one of her best -ever World Cup results, Fanny Welle-Strand Horn of Norway won her first World Cup race on Friday by edging three-time Olympic champion Darya Dom