THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By The Sheaf January 8, 2012
Huskies football offensive lineman Ben Heenan will join two other CIS players Jan. 21 as they compete in the 87th East-West Shrine game in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The game, which raises funds for Shriners Hospital for Children, features 100 of the United States’ top college players and acts as a showcase for future NFL and CFL talent. Every year since 1985, two or three CIS players are also invited to the game.
By Canadian University Press January 5, 2012
The University of British Columbia Thunderbirds football team has forfeited its entire 2011 season after it was found that it was fielding an ineligible player.
The player, defensive lineman Connor Flynn, had already completed his eligibility at the beginning of the season, after having played five years of junior football with the Vancouver Trojans before being recruited to UBC in 2009. According to a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) statement, UBC “self-disclosed” the violation and co-operated fully with the investigation. It went on to say that the violation was unintentional.
By Kevin Menz January 4, 2012
The Huskies men’s hockey team will have to kick old habits if it wants to land a spot in the national playoffs. According to head coach Dave Adolph, the team hasn’t performed very well in the second half of the last two regular seasons. “This year our goal is making sure our finish is better than our start,” says Adolph.
Meanwhile, the Huskies women’s hockey head coach Steve Kook doesn’t want to downplay this weekend’s first-place games against the Lethbridge Pronghorns, but he believes the Dogs will have at least four more first-place weekends this season.
By Canadian University Press December 11, 2011
Most students are well aware that, while thousands of dollars are going towards tuition and housing costs, thousands more are being blown on alcohol. For the most part, they are okay with that. Between frosh weeks and regular bar nights, alcohol is a major part of university life at almost any university campus.
However, Canadian universities are breeding grounds for high-level athletes, and this drinking culture is not conducive to creating a world-class athlete.
By Canadian University Press December 7, 2011
Ex-Montreal Impact player David Testo has come out of the closet and expressed huge relief in doing so.
The American-born soccer player revealed in November that he is gay, although his family, friends and teammates all knew about his sexual orientation. Now the rest of North American society finally knows an openly gay professional athlete. We were ready for it.
By Malcolm Radke December 2, 2011
Two years ago, Jade Etienne’s name likely wasn’t topping the Canadian Football League’s scouting list. Fast forward to last weekend, however, and Etienne was only 11 points shy of hoisting the league’s championship trophy.
The former University of Saskatchewan Huskie was part of the Winnipeg Blue Bomber team that lost to the B.C. Lions in the 99th Grey Cup on Nov. 27. 2011 was Etienne’s rookie season in the CFL.
By Kevin Menz December 2, 2011
The University of Saskatchewan Huskies wrestling squad was lucky that Katie Dutchak wasn’t quite yet ready to step off the mat.
The former captain of the Holy Cross High School team and first-year wrestler with the Dogs nearly moved to Missouri this year to take her rodeo career to the next level. However, after a bronze-medal performance in the Canadian junior wrestling finals last year — a finish that she considered lacklustre — she decided that she “wasn’t ready to be done wrestling.”
By Canadian University Press December 1, 2011
Unless you live underneath a rock, you’ve probably heard of the Penn State sex abuse scandal that has rocked the football-centric Pennsylvania State University. It has ended football coach Joe Paterno’s 46-year career, and university president Graham Spanier has been fired over it. I’m not a follower of college football or football in general, but I’ve been following this story with unwavering attention. Watching the details of this case unfold, I got spitting mad.