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Brandon Manning could could be back patrolling the Philadelphia Flyers blueline.

There's an epic battle shaping up this weekend among the youngest riders on the Prince George Motocross Association circuit and with $3,000 in prizes up for grabs in the two-day Printwerx Cup B.C.

The quest for the Telus Cup national midget hockey championship starts today for the Cariboo Cougars. Northern B.C.'s top regional midget team opens training camp this evening at CN Centre with practices at 6:45 and 8 p.m.

In three-and-a-half seasons as head coach of the Prince George Spruce Kings, Dave Dupas has never taken his team beyond the first round of playoffs.

It's not even September and Chance Braid has already started his playoff beard. He has no plans to shave it off, not until next May at the earliest, after the Prince George Cougars have had a chance to hoist the Memorial Cup trophy.

As an amateur boxer, Marcus Hume was getting as lonely as the Maytag repairman. Just two fights in the space of a year was barely enough to keep the cobwebs from gathering on his gloves.

Whether you play table tennis or ping pong, it's all the same to the people trying to round up players for a Canada Winter Games test event set for Saturday, Sept. 20 at Duchess Park secondary school.

If only the start of his rookie season as a pro motocross racer had begun as well as it ended, there's no telling what Jess Pettis could have accomplished. It certainly would have been much less painful.

Kris Yip powered his way through five laps of single-track in four-and-a-half hours to win the Otway Enduro Challenge on Sunday.

When Natasha Kozlowski entered the B.C. novice girls golf championship in Chilliwack last week, she was only teeing off for the experience. Two days later, the 13-year-old secured the title and a crystal bowl and gold medal to go along with it.