Tag: Basketball
Soccer notebook: Western Mustangs shine, FC London men moving up
London has long been a soccer city and that reputation is growing.
Letters to the Editor: September 12, 2024
Slow response from the city
What’s behind the booming popularity of London’s Forest City sport, social club
Founded 15 years ago, the Forest City Sport and Social Club offers co-ed recreational sport leagues and social activities for adults.
London Lightning’s basketball league adds new boss, first U.S. team
The Basketball Super League has a new commissioner and the defending champion London Lightning will have another foe to contend with this coming season.
Ex-London Lightning MVP rides far-right fandom to GOP senate nomination
Former London Lightning star Royce White, who was as much a lightning rod as an MVP during his Forest City playing days, has taken his next big shot in the United States political arena.
Baranyai: Respect women Olympians’ faith choices
In Rio, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad made history as the first woman to compete for the U.S. wearing a hijab.
Meet the Olympians: London athletes set to shine again at Summer Games
Will London be Canadaâs Golden City again this Olympics?
Local athletes win big at 2024 Spring Provincial Games
GODERICH – Two local athletes returned home as champions after taking part in the Special Olympics Ontario Spring Provincial Games this year in Waterloo. Paige Manger of the Goderich Seahorses and Callum MacDonald, who swims with the Seahorses as well as the Sarnia Dolphins, were competitors at this year’s games in Waterloo, which were held […]
‘We were chosen’: 122 newborns, one couple’s epic foster care journey
Don and Nancy Matthews, now in their 70s, fostered a small village of infants over the years. Only reluctantly has the Southwestern Ontario couple stopped. LFP’s Randy Richmond reports STRATFORD â Nancy Matthews always wanted a lot of babies. The love they need, the love they give â she can list any number of reasons […]
Vigil held for London teen killed two days after high school graduation
More than a dozen people held a vigil Saturday night to mourn an 18-year-old Londoner who graduated high school only two days before being killed, with grieving friends remembering him as a friendly and energetic young man. Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,â died Friday night after he was stabbed in the parking […]