Curlers will be sweeping across Ottawa as some of Ontario’s best players come to compete in the 23rd annual Ontario deaf curling championships this month.
Deaf curlers in the house for provincial championships
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Sports Beat: Youth programs provide forums to help improve self-image
Visible from parts of Centretown, the national capital region YMCA-YWCA stands tall against a now bleak backdrop. With the change of season, its brown brick walls match the bare limbs on the trees outside, and somehow it seems even more noticeable.
Success in Athens for local Paralympic hoop sensation
She’s a floor general, a leader, a clutch shooter and simply incredible. That’s how longtime friend and fellow wheelchair basketball player, Vito Perri, describes Tracey Ferguson, star guard for Canada’s women’s wheelchair basketball team.
Coaching fraternity makes a visible difference in sport
If this sounds like a commercial, it’s because it is. Well, in a sense. With less than six weeks left to game day, the city is already preparing to play host. It’s a chance it gets once in a “grey” moon. But behind the fanfare, corporate sponsorship and anticipation of watching football greats battle it out, there is much left undone. Enter the volunteers.