Huskies achieve monopoly on Canada West basketball at conference championships. Dillon and Taylor Petrucha talk about pole vaulting at Monday night’s Talk Show.

Rutherford Rink, the decrepit U of S rink that has housed the Huskies hockey program for 81 years, has always had one thing going for it. The Huskies men’s hockey team has never lost in their previous 17 post-season series. That all changed last weekend though.

The fastest growing sport in the world, mixed martial arts, is coming to Saskatoon again when Alpha Fight XC is showcased at TCU Place on March 13. MMA fever has now attracted two University of Saskatchewan students who will make the transition from the classroom to the ring.

Five wrestlers and four medals — that’s how you own a podium. Just ask Jill Gallays and the Huskies wrestling crew who recently put the competition in a chokehold at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport wrestling championships.

The quadruple jump was first landed in competition in 1988 by Canada’s very own Kurt Browning. After that, if you were not landing your quad jumps in men’s figure skating, you simply were not winning medals. The fact that the quadruple jump is extremely dangerous for skaters was ignored in favour of proving oneself to the sport.

The fall of the Soviet Union marked an emphasis on individualism in Russian society that had not been there previously. While this was undoubtedly a positive development, it hasn’t produced the best results for the country in terms of hockey.

If drinking on a Sunday is considered a faux pas amongst certain circles, exceptions will have been made on Sunday Feb. 28 as Canada and the United States battled for the coveted Olympic gold in men’s hockey in Vancouver.

The final four days were expected to show Canada’s strongest showing, and Canadian athletes have instigated a golden domino effect in the dwindling days of the Olympics.

What is there to do after more than two weeks of Olympics in Vancouver? Downloading and watching a borderline sappy Olympics-themed movie is the remedy, of course. In this case, the 1993 Disney film Cool Runnings.

There have been many great moments during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics — moments of joy and jubilation as well as moments of sadness and misery. Here are a few memorable people or events.

After Canadian speed skater Hamelin was surpassed in the final stretch of the 1500 metre by the Korean speed skating team during the Vancouver Olympics last week, Canada’s skating poster child told a nation of stunned fans to be patient, promising them a glorious medal later in the tournament. He delivered.

Our lady Canucks guzzled a few Molson Canadian, sipped on champagne and — gasp! — smoked cigars following the championship win. For this minor indiscretion the team has been excoriated in American news outlets but they don’t have to apologize for their celebration.

The Vancouver Olympics mark the emergence of snowboarding as a serious winter event, despite the ignominious start in 1998 when Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati tested positive for using marijuana.

Despite the focus on the men’s hockey teams at the Vancouver Olympics, the women’s teams are full of world-class players who should not be ignored amid the chaos and excitement.

Almost three months after the bizarre events of Thanksgiving night, Tiger Woods gave a press conference today to address the revelations of his extramarital affairs.

Some of the many photographs taken at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics by Sheaf Photo Editor Robby Davis and others.

Freshly out of her teens, the newly-minted silver medalist St-Gelais said that she had a good feeling starting at training the day before her women’s short-track (500m) speed skating competition.

A day after running away with Canada’s second gold medal of the Vancouver Olympics in downhill snowboard cross, Whistler’s Maelle Ricker faced the media during a cordial press conference in downtown Vancouver on Feb. 17.