Category: Sports
‘A second chance’: U16 girls’ soccer team crowned OPDL champions
The London TFC Academy U16 girls’ soccer team spent four years learning how to handle adversity.
Owen Sound Attack trade skill for scary on Halloween
Dale DeGray said he was tired of watching his forwards get run into the ground by bigger, fiercer opposition. “I’m a little bit uncomfortable with how much our forwards get (expletive) pounded,” he said. So, in a Midwest Division swap, DeGray shipped off creative winger Michael Dec to the Erie Otters for bruising power forward […]
London Knights ride fast start to 6-1 win over Petes
Caleb Mitchell’s first Ontario Hockey League goal happened in familiar haunts. The London rookie defenceman, who grew up 20 minutes from Peterborough in nearby Omemee, hit paydirt in the opening period of the Knights’ 6-1 victory over the Petes before 3,700 Thursday at the Memorial Centre. The 17-year-old’s early tally stood up as the game […]
Love the Toronto Blue Jays? You can thank this Londoner
With nationwide love for the Toronto Blue Jays at a fever pitch as the team sits one win from a World Series championship, it’s worth remember the roots of the club run deep into London. This column by Jim Kernaghan on Don McDougall, the London executive who helped found the Jays, ran in the Feb. […]
Braidy Wassilyn eyes NHL first-round future through London Knights
The new Knights forward has come to the right place.