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There’s nothing like a cold Canadian November, the taste of anticipation in the air, and thousands of football fans travelling thousands of kilometres just to wear their colours with pride. This is Canadian football—a sport that doesn’t just play out on fields but in the hearts of fans from every corner of the country. Walk […]
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The OHL has shown no tolerance for crossing the line, hitting Barrie Colts’ rising star Kashawn Aitcheson with a suspension that will echo through the rink and the city. Saturday night in Sault Ste. Marie, the Barrie Colts watched a 3-1 lead slip away before losing in a shootout to the Greyhounds. The action on
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There’s a certain electricity in the air when a team’s unsung heroes finally get their due, and in the Barrie Colts’ dressing room, last night felt like a jolt of pure joy. Bodie Stewart, Joe Salandra, and Nicholas Desiderio stood at the heart of the celebration, a trio whose tenacity sparked a fifth straight Ontario
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In a city starved for another title, the Toronto Blue Jays’ Game 7 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers was a gut punch that left fans in Barrie and across the country reeling, even after Bo Bichette’s unforgettable three-run bomb set hearts racing early on. When Bichette launched his towering shot in the third inning,
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Guerrero Jr. sent a jolt through southern Ontario as his powerful swing in Game 4 put the Blue Jays back in the World Series fight, igniting a wave of pride from Barrie to Toronto. Tuesday night, the Toronto Blue Jays delivered the kind of performance that gets a whole community buzzing. Down one early against
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Six and a half hours, 18 innings, and a whole nation on the edge—Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium left Blue Jays fans from Barrie to Toronto gutted, watching their championship hopes slip away on Freddie Freeman’s thunderous walk-off home run. It was the kind of baseball epic that demands attention. The
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In Essa Township, the echo of skates on ice has been replaced, at least for now, by murmurs of disbelief and questions of trust. A modest minor hockey association, the heart of many local winters, finds itself engulfed in the chilling reality of financial betrayal. Nottawasaga Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) launched an investigation on May
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Pins and needles at Rogers Centre Saturday night as the Los Angeles Dodgers powered past the Toronto Blue Jays, tying the World Series at a game apiece with a 5-1 victory that reminded everyone why October baseball is the greatest show on earth. From the first pitch, tension hung thick in the air. Yoshinobu Yamamoto,
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The air at Mount St. Louis Moonstone crackled with cheers as over a thousand young runners sprinted toward the finish, their faces etched with determination and hope for gold. Simcoe County’s regional cross-country championship transformed the ski slopes north of Barrie into the site of one of the county’s most anticipated youth sporting events. Over
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Beer mugs clink in crowded Legion halls, children etch their initials in the dirt before stepping up to bat, and the Blue Jays’ World Series run has the entire region buzzing in a way that transcends the game itself. As October’s chill settles over Barrie and its neighbours, baseball’s grip has never felt tighter. Televisions
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