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 Canadian University Press November 30, 2011
A wild back-and-forth game for the biggest prize in Canadian university football ended with a huge redeeming field goal.
A 20-yard field goal in overtime by Tyler Crapigna gave the McMaster Marauders a 41-38 Vanier Cup victory over the Laval Rouge et Or on Nov. 25. The victory was McMaster’s first Canadian Interuniversity Sport football championship, and it didn’t come easily.
By Kevin Menz November 26, 2011
Jared Farley lay motionless on the dirt after his face smashed flat against Bombs Away’s horn. Thousands of fans held their breath as paramedics rushed to assess the damage. After several agonizing minutes, the dazed bull rider got to his feet and walked safely out of the fenced arena. He wasn’t the only rider to take a beating Nov. 19 as the bulls were angry for the last night of the 2011 Professional Bull Riders Canadian Finals at Credit Union Centre.
Read on and check out our full photo gallery for a taste of the action.
By Canadian University Press November 25, 2011
Kyle Quinlan has seen just about everything this season.
Since late August, the star McMaster Marauders quarterback has dealt with lofty expectations for his team, a crushing early-season loss to Ontario powerhouse Western and a three-game suspension after an altercation involving an undercover police officer. But in Friday night’s Uteck Bowl, all that mattered was what Quinlan saw on the scoreboard.
By Kevin Menz November 23, 2011
A huge weight was lifted off the Huskies women’s basketball team Nov. 18 as they tallied their first win of the season against the visiting Lethbridge Pronghorns.
The Dogs, who had lost their previous three games, downed the Horns 62-55.
By Canadian University Press November 19, 2011
If you turned on the TV or read the newspaper from Oct. 14 to 30, you would have been hard-pressed to find signs of the XVI Pan American Games’ existence.
This year’s games, which were held in Guadalajara, Mexico, were the last high-profile event for Canadian athletes before next year’s Summer Olympics in London. Canada sent 794 athletes, coaches and other support staff to the competition.
By Kevin Menz November 17, 2011
Huskies women seek first win The Huskies women’s basketball team will be
By Kevin Menz November 16, 2011
The University of Alberta Golden Bears snagged two wins from the Huskies men’s volleyball team this past weekend at the Physical Activity Complex. Meanwhile, a strong first set was the only positive to come out of the Huskies women’s volleyball team’s third straight losing weekend Nov. 11 and 12 at the PAC.
“We just didn’t execute,” said Huskie Matt Busse. “At the end of sets and all the way through, that’s what we need to work on.”
By Kevin Menz November 16, 2011
The Victoria Vikes kept two former first-place finishers off the podium Nov. 12 as the Huskies fell short of winning their first-ever Canada West women’s cross-country title.
Fifth-year Huskies Jodi Souter and Caitlin Warkentin, who had both won the conference race in the past, finished fourth and sixth, respectively, at the Canada West championships last weekend at Laval University.