Fifth-year sociology student Jason Kerr tore up the track at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships in Windsor last weekend, bringing home four medals. Kerr has been awarded this week’s Purple Pipe due to his outstanding performance and he took some time out of his day to sit down
... (more)It’s great that Danny Brannagan has signed with the Canadian Football League’s Toronto Argonauts. Great for me because I called that the Argos would sign a Canadian QB here. But somewhat more importantly, it’s great for the growth of the game in Canada and the emergence of Canadian Interuniversity Sport competition as ... (more)
Western Mustangs defensive lineman Chris Greaves is not a small man. At six-foot-six, 282 lbs, the Mississauga native tends to stand out in line at the Ceeps. But even Greaves was blown away this weekend when he saw Washington State offensive lineman Joe Eppele at the Canadian Football League’s annual evaluation ... (more)
It’s really, really hard to be a Toronto Argonauts fan right now. The team, still reeling from their latest campaign under an unpopular import coach, boasts an awful 7-29 record over the past two seasons and was recently sold to BC Lions owner David Baley because, well, no one else ... (more)
Western’s archrival has done it again. Since joining the Ontario University Athletics conference at the beginning of the decade, the Lakehead Thunderwolves have contested six playoff series against the Mustangs, never with home-ice advantage. For the fourth time, the Thunderwolves knocked the Mustangs out of the Queen’s Cup race after ... (more)
“Waterloo has been our nemesis for the past two or three years. It was good to put an exclamation mark on that this year.” Mustang volleyball player Kyle Bryce was certainly happy with his team’s playoff performance on Saturday. Western’s men’s volleyball team advanced to the Ontario University Athletics Final-Four after ... (more)
1. Don’t be fooled by Gary Bettman’s posturing over the NHL’s involvement in the2014 winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia. The NHL will be there. 2. Bettman, a shrewd negotiator, is well aware of the fact the players want to be at that tournament. And with another session of collective bargaining ... (more)
When March rolls around, motivation isn’t hard to come by in a Mustangs locker room. “The season is over if you lose — that’s all the motivation we should ever need,” Mustangs women’s basketball head coach Stephan Barrie said after watching his team cruise to an 84-58 victory over the Lakehead ... (more)
Twenty-one wins, 42 points and the Ontario University Athletics West division title. Yet, after 55 minutes of game two against the upstart University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks, all of the accolades the Western Mustangs men’s hockey team earned seemed meaningless. Enter Yashar Farmanara. Down one game to the Ridgebacks ... (more)
Starting Roberto Luongo against the Germans Tuesday night and for the rest of the tournament is the easiest decision head coach Mike Babcock has had to make during these Olympic games. Martin Brodeur looked like an amateur playing against the United States Sunday night and was truly outclassed by his ... (more)












