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.

Sports

  • By November 15, 2013

    The Huskies men’s soccer team travelled to Fredericton, N.B. with hopes of claiming the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championship, but it was not meant to be.

  • Get your head in the game: mastering the mental aspect of sport

    By November 16, 2012

    As athletes and coaches we spend a lot of time working on physical, technical and strategic skills in our particular sport. But is that enough? What about the mental aspect of the game? How important is it for athletes to prepare their psychological mindset?

  • U of S ultimate frisbee falls short in nationals

    By October 24, 2012

    Frisbee buffs from the University of Saskatchewan and several other Canadian universities came together to face off in the ultimate sport Oct. 19-21 in Kelowna, B.C. The Canadian Ultimate University Championships hosted 14 university teams.

  • Dog Watch: Nick Clarke

    By October 5, 2012

    Nick Clarke is a sportsaholic, and he loves coming back to the University of Saskatchewan to play. The 31-year-old Clarke is currently spending his fifth and final year of Canadian university sport eligibility playing on the Huskies men’s soccer team, but that doesn’t even come close to defining his career in sport.

  • Where were you in ’72: the 40th anniversary of the Summit Series

    By October 4, 2012

    With 34 seconds left in the eighth and final game of the Summit Series, the game tied at five and the series tied at 3-3-1, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Paul Henderson shot the puck past Soviet goalie Vladislav Tretiak to win the series for Team Canada.

  • Hitting home: a reflection on a lost brother’s role as a hockey enforcer

    By March 22, 2012

    This past November I lost my brother Lyndon Kenny to suicide.

    Lyndon was a very good hockey player. He was drafted by the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League and he was not only a highly-skilled defenceman and strong skater, but also the toughest person I have ever known.

    His final wish came in the form of an unsent text message intended for me. Lyndon wanted to have his brain donated to research at the Boston University School of Medicine so we could have the answers he had sought for years.

  • What’s so wrong about the Lingerie Football League? It objectifies women, but the athletes know what they’re doing

    By March 9, 2012

    It was announced earlier this week that Saskatoon and Regina will be the homes of Lingerie Football League franchises in the coming year.

    This sport, in which (beautiful) female athletes dress in lingerie and play a modified form of NFL football, has been called demeaning to women, misogynistic and a poor representation of women’s athletics on many media comment boards since the teams were announced a few days ago.

  • Canada’s Pan Am apathy: almost 800 representatives competed at last month’s event, but did any one back home even notice?

    By 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.