In dramatic fashion captain Homare Sawa flicked home the tying goal off a corner in the 117th minute before Japan outscored the USA 3-1 in penalties to capture the 2011 Women’s World Cup Final Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany.The victory allowed Japan to post its first win over the USA and also becomes the first Asian nation to...

Columbia Basin Trust recently contributed $50,000 to the LeRoi Community Foundation, CBT’s eleventh Community Foundation to receive support from its Endowment Support for Community Foundations Program.  The LeRoi Community Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Greater Trail through a large network of local donors and corporations. “The LeRoi Community Foundation is an excellent […]

Josh Coletti of Granite Pointe and Ben Gresley-Jones of Rossland/Trail made the cut and will play in round three following day two of the B.C. Men’s Amateur Golf Championship Wednesday at The Dunes in Kamloops.Both West Kootenay players carded identical rounds of 74 to slip under the cut line — Coletti by the narrowest of...

Ben Gresley-Jones of Rossland/Trail is tied for 22nd following the opening round Tuesday at the B.C. Men’s Amateur Golf Championship at The Dunes near Kamloops.Gresley-Jones, who stumbled a bit on the front nine, shot a first-round 1-under-par to sit five shots behind first round leader Jeremy Osborne of Salmon Arm. Gresley-Jones...

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsThree years ago Isaac MacLeod helped the Nelson Leafs win the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League championship.Two years ago, the son of Deb and Allan MacLeod was a key cog on the blueline of B.C. Hockey League’s Penticton Vees.Last year the Nelson Minor Hockey grad played his...

By The Nelson Daily SportsNine players from the Zone One West Kootenay Junior Golf Tour take to the Rossland/Trail Birchbank course Tuesday for round one in the B.C. Junior Boy’s Golf Championship.“The key to playing well at Birch is to drive the ball well,” said Zone One coordinator Rob McKay on the eve of the four-day...

Proponents are billing it as a service for tourists, but a watchdog group sees it as another attempt to develop the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort area through ‘the backdoor,’ and without due process.  “It” is a proposal to open commercial skiing operations at the former Camp Green site, on Farnham Glacier, just over the height-of-land […]

With only four-weeks to go before the race begins, Atmosphere Raid the North Extreme Race Director Geoff Langford offers a preview of top teams to watch. “We have a competitor field with lots of depth and experience this year,” he said. “In adventure racing there are many game-changing variables that can alter the outcome of […]

Lauren Taylor of Nelson ballooned to an 81 on a the difficult Alberni course to finish in a tie for 13th  at the 2011 B.C. Women’s Amateur Golf Championship in Port Alberni.After cruising to a 71 during round three Thursday, the Granite Pointe golfer registered nine bogeys to drop out of contention.However, Taylor wasn’t the...

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsFor Sasha Zaitsoff, it’s the walk in the park he enjoys the most during his stay in Calgary.Of course that walk is not of friendly variety say down the sidewalk at Lakeside.This walk . . . well, let’s just say it’s more than a walk.This walk has this soon to be 21-year-old skier building ...