Image of Ravens Senior Elliott Thompson Going Out with a Bang

Ravens Senior Elliott Thompson Going Out with a Bang

It's hard to imagine a more consistent player for Ravens over the last five years. Senior Elliott Thompson is making sure that his last year in a Carleton uniform will be a memorable one. Thomps...

Image of Ravens Elliott Thompson assuming leadership role

Ravens Elliott Thompson assuming leadership role

Elliot Thompson has a trio of conference championships Anywhere else, that's a pretty extraordinary career. But at Ottawa's Carleton University, where basketball excellence is expected and champion...

Image of Kelly Hodgson inks deal with 1st Division Portuguese Team

Kelly Hodgson inks deal with 1st Division Portuguese Team

Kelsey Hodgson is off to conquer another country. Hodgson, the 22-year-old Fredericton native who led the nation in scoring in each of the past two seasons as the star of the Cape Breton Capers wom...

Image of Dave Durepos part of Canadian effort at world wheelchair hoop tourney

Dave Durepos part of Canadian effort at world wheelchair hoop tourney

The Canadian men's and women's teams have qualified for quarter-final games today at the 2010 world wheelchair basketball championships in Birmingham, England. The 4-1 men's team, including Frederi...

Image of Dianne Norman: The ultimate team player

Dianne Norman: The ultimate team player

Norman is arguably New Brunswick's most accomplished basketball player, having spent 17 years within the Canadian National Basketball program. On Saturday, she'll be inducted into the New Brunswick Sp...

Image of The Manchester Millrats are looking for a new home in the Premier Basketball League

The Manchester Millrats are looking for a new home in the Premier Basketball League

And this weekend, several members of the New Hampshire-based team's ownership group will be in Saint John to continue talks about a possible relocation to Harbour Station for the 2011 season. Ian M...

Image of Historic site of Canada's first hoops game damaged in weekend fire

Historic site of Canada's first hoops game damaged in weekend fire

Before that, it housed the local chapter of the YMCA, and a treasure that few people know about: the first basketball court in Canada. "There is a lot of history to that building,'' Brian Parsons, ...

Image of Former all-star Leah Corby returning to V-Reds

Former all-star Leah Corby returning to V-Reds

The University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds women's basketball team took a big step toward a return to the Atlantic University Sport Women's Basketball Conference playoffs Friday. Point guard Leah...

Hodgson honoured by Fredericton's athlete of the year award

Kelsey Hodgson made a triumphant homecoming Tuesday. No, the 22-year-old Fredericton native didn't have the Bronze Baby, the trophy emblematic of supremacy in Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's...

Kari Everett hopes to return to CIS championship this year

As soon as Kari Everett and her Cape Breton Capers teammates arrived back home from last year's Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's basketball championship, they were bound and determined to get ba...

Wright up to speed for V-Reds

Brent Baker believes he's finally got the Wright guy to lead the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds. Fourth-year point guard Andy Wright made his first start in UNB colours against the Universit...

X-Men capture 2009 Eric Garland preseason tourney

The St. Francis Xavier X-Men may have won the ARC Financial Eric Garland men's basketball tournament -- but the host University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds may have felt like they did. The X-Men, e...