Sports

Zone 5 Women's Championship

It could be chippy, or downright nasty tonight at the Nanaimo Ice Centre, where organizers are predicting a sellout for the first meeting of the season between the Victoria Shamrocks and Nanaimo Timbermen.

B.C. amateur championship this weekend in Langford

VICTORIA 5 ONTARIO 0 Is it time to hand off the wooden spoon, that fanciful but dubious "award" which goes to last-place sports teams? At 5-2-1 since Nov.

Long before Simon Whitfield's Olympic heroics and Peter Reid's and Lori Bowden's multiple wins at Ironman Hawaii placed Victorians at the centre of the triathlon universe, there was the small race in 1980 at Elk Lake.

The Victoria Seals melted under the sweltering heat in the Arizona desert.

Alaska at Victoria, 7 P.M.

Despite the doom and gloom fishing of last summer, and the lean pickings this past winter, the salmon picture for 2009 looks more promising than it did last year. The El Nino warm water phenomenon has changed to an El Nino cold water pattern.

Purse increase, return of Rutledge have Victoria organizers excited

You don't have to be a Hockey Hall of Fame analyst to figure this one out: Since no team in ECHL Kelly Cup playoff history has rebounded from a 0-3 deficit in a best-of-seven series, Wednesday night's Game 3 at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre is pretty