Sports

Sports numbers this week

Posted on September 30, 2014

By Rob Ficiur This time of the year is the best for sports fans; the regular season in Major League Baseball is coming to an… Read More »

Why sports fans love gossip stories

Posted on September 23, 2014

By Rob FiciurTwenty-first century sports fans can know more about their favorite teams than we did 50 years ago. Back in the pre-internet, pre-sports TV years,… Read More »

Sports reruns are great because…

Posted on September 16, 2014

By Rob FiciurMy wife could not understand why I was “wasting” my time watching a baseball game when I already knew who had won. Normally sports… Read More »

Be where you are supposed to be and other hockey lessons for students (of all ages)

Posted on September 2, 2014

By Rob Ficiur In the 2014 Stanley Cup final, three games went to overtime; the team that won those three games spent the summer as… Read More »

If you have lived in the area for 25 years, are you still a newcomer?

Posted on August 26, 2014

Editor's note: This week's Ficiur column is not sports-related, but is his personal account of living in the Bow Island area for more than two… Read More »

The west best and the east the least: Myth or reality?

Posted on August 19, 2014

By Rob FiciurAt this moment the last place team (fifth) in the Canadian Football League’s Western Division would be first in the CFL’s East. A… Read More »

Canadian content in the USA

Posted on August 12, 2014

By Rob Ficiur This summer we spent a couple of weeks visiting family in four different cities across the USA. During these visits, it is interesting… Read More »

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