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Burnaby Minor Lacrosse Club is offering its popular Fun Lacrosse program again early in the new year. The Friday night and weekend sessions start in January at the Charles Rummel Centre on 3630 Lozelles Ave.

The lessons have come early for the Simon Fraser University women’s basketball team. Launching the year at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference/PacWest Yellowjacket Challenge in Billings, Mont.

This is a cross-border battle fit for the headlines. A rivalry in mostly geography only, the New Westminster Hyacks and St. Thomas More Knights are separated by 10th Avenue and a few blocks of urban streets.

The Vancouver Northeast Chiefs balanced some good news with a few rough patches. The B.C.

Burnaby’s Tyler Morley saw both sides of the coin in recent days.

The Burnaby Central Wildcats are back at the Show. The AAA senior boys soccer team locked up a berth to the provincial championships with a 1-0 victory over West Vancouver on Tuesday, avoiding an elimination game on Wednesday in the process.

Sinan Ozgur lived in Canada for four years before returning to his native Turkey in 2004. He started a family and returned west in 2010, settling in Burnaby. By his own admission he should’ve known the passion his adopted country had for hockey.

Seven members of the St. Thomas More Knights senior football program were named as AAA Eastern Counference all-stars this week, led by Defensive MVP Ben Steele.

Coming off a dominating 6-2 win over Eastern Washington last week, the Simon Fraser University men’s hockey team is eager for its next challenge. The Trinity Western University Spartans, who share a 4-2-0 record and tied for second in the B.C.

The Simon Fraser University men’s cross-country team is headed back to nationals in Joplin, Mo., thanks to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA West regionals.