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Analyzing six SFU sports teams
By Matt Lee
Men's basketball
Record last year: 18-12
Key additions: James Blake (coach), Peter Boateng, Matt Wallace
Key departures: Scott Clark (coach), Kevin Shaw, Matt Kuzminski, Jordan Nostedt, Chas Kok, ...
Salo injury could open door for Mitchell
By Matt Lee
Perhaps in a month or so, Willie Mitchell could be thanking Sami Salo for renewing his career with the Vancouver Canucks. Well, Sami Salo’s fragile body, anyway.
The not-so-shocking news that the fragile Finn would be sidelined for ...
Blake planting American roots in SFU
By Matt Lee
Just one month into his tenure as the SFU men’s basketball head coach, James Blake is already piecing together what he hopes to be a promising team in the fall.
The Victoria native, charged with the monumental task of putting together ...
Is Casey Printers running out of ink?
By Chad Klassen
Casey Printers was supposed to be the saviour for Vancouver this summer.
While the Lions were labelled a rebuilding project after their first losing season under Wally Buono, Printers — and the rejuvenated Empire Field — generated a ...
Canucks facing high expectations
By Matt Lee
If the 2010-11 version of the Vancouver Canucks were to be a Charles Dickens novel, it’d likely be Great Expectations. The question is whether the team can follow through on the lofty goals that fans and management have set for ...
“Five Hole For Food” hits hunger top shelf
By Matt Lee
Nine different cities, 10 days, 5,917 pounds of food, and one tremendous cause.
Those are some of the numbers that encompassed SFU student Richard Loat’s trip when he returned home to Vancouver after organizing a road hockey tour ...
Bellisomo blossoming with Whitecaps
By Matt Lee
With the Vancouver Whitecaps having introduced a brand new logo for a brand new life in Major League Soccer, there’s one Clan alum who is just beginning to scratch the surface on his brand new career.
Luca Bellisomo, who spent four ...
Clan unearth gems from United States
By Matt Lee
SFU football coach Dave Johnson was born in California and prior to his head coaching gig with the Clan, he owned and operated a business in Arizona, so you get the impression that he’s as much of an American as he is a Canadian.
...Naslund’s #19 worthy of the rafters
By Adam Grossi
756 points, 346 goals, five All-Star games, three first All-Star team nominations, winner of the 2003 Lester B. Pearson Award, and the 2003 Hart Trophy runner-up, Markus Naslund’s statistical credentials no doubt merit serious discussion ...
Probert was in a class of his own
By Reagan Belan
Last week, the hockey world mourned the loss of one of its most notorious characters. On July 5, Bob Probert collapsed while on vacation with his family at Lake St. Claire in his hometown of Windsor, Ontario. At the age of 45, Probert sadly ...
Clan raise $226K for future student scholarships
By Matt Lee
Simon Fraser University began the long and arduous road towards creating a closer bond with its athletics program by hosting “The Gathering of the Clan” last Tuesday, an event which saw famous Clan alumni fundraise $226,000 in a ...
Canucks still lack true #1 defenceman
By Matt Lee
As it stands, the Vancouver Canucks are a team with four second-pairing defencemen, but also a team without a top-level blueliner.
Like many fans in Canuck nation, I applaud General Manager Mike Gillis for acquiring free agent ...
Getting to know James Blake
By Matt Lee
*P:* How does it feel to be back in Canada?
JB: It’s unbelievable; I wake up in the morning and I forget where I am. I was on the phone with a coaching friend who asked me if I missed California, and I told ...
The Strasburg era is hardly an era, yet
By Andrew Forsyth
There is no denying that Stephen Strasburg has done some remarkable things in his first four starts with the Washington Nationals.
After fanning 14 batters in his first start against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the soon-to-be ...
Blake becomes the new man for SFU hoops
By Matt Lee
With SFU set to move their entire athletics program to the NCAA this fall, there’s still a lot of work to be done for the men’s basketball team. But the department took a gigantic leap forward with the hiring of James Blake as the team’s ...