Sports

After a seven-year hiatus from the sport he loves, Kevin Wills made his return to the rodeo ring last weekend in the Kamloops Outdoor Pro Rodeo at the KXA.

Dave Holmberg is calling it "an extreme coup for Kamloops 9-ball." Organizers of the Interior 9-Ball Open, being held Sept. 8 at Executive Billiards, have announced world No.

Nine teams are headed to this weekend's Provincial Mixed Slo-Pitch championships in Vernon following a qualifying tournament at McArthur Island on Saturday and Sunday. Two teams made the D cut and seven the E.

To score in football, you must have – and keep – possession of the ball. It's that simple. The Kamloops Cowboys learned this lesson the hard way on Sunday as they fell 30-7 to the Abbotsford Air Force at Hillside Stadium.

Russ Gardner and Elsa Dahlie took what could only be described as the scenic route through the Selkirk Mountains last week. Their trip, however, was anything but a vacation.

It was a bad case of déja-vu for the Kamloops Players Bench Midget AAA Riverdogs last weekend at the Western Canadian Baseball Championships when they met perennial rivals the Kelowna Cardinals in yet another tournament final.

Karson Legault is back for the second year of the Kamloops Outdoor Pro Rodeo. So is Passport Dip. Last year, Legault rode Passport to a 91 in the bull- riding event, then headed to the hospital for problems after the eight seconds.

Daryle Quewezance has been athletic all his life. Growing up in Saskatchewan, he played physical, contact sports such as hockey and football and also enjoyed non-contact sports like baseball and track. One sport he didn't play, however, was golf.

More than 140 of the fastest speed skaters in the province left Kamloops last week not only as better athletes, but better friends as well.

Skye McLeod and Jennifer Sabatino have played a fair share of tennis together this summer. After taking a silver medal in doubles at the recent B.C.