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Tom Peck is a reporter on The Independent's news desk with an interest in just about everything.

It's unfortunate that empty seats at Credit Union Centre have become one of the prevailing images of this year's Memorial Cup.

The battle for wrestling to regain its place on the roster of Olympic sports is already a long, drawn-out fight.

Ice queen Shelley Rudman has taken a break from skeleton bob training to visit Right to Play projects in Tanzania.

GREAT Britain and Northern Ireland international Lyanne Diotte is hoping ball hockey will be opened up to a whole new audience over the next few years.

You get the feeling that after Thursday night's 3-0 victory by Los Angeles - by far the Kings' best performance of the series - the Sharks will look at the video and see how uninspiring they were except for brief spurts.

GRAMMY Award-winning and multi-platinum-selling artist Michael W. Smith announces the 2014 "Michael W. Smith & Friends Cruise" to awe-inspiring Alaska.

Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May ... (more)

The Cape girls' lacrosse team in the front row cheers on the boys against Caesar Rodney.

"My time at GD has been filled to the brim with activity and was constantly a balancing act of school, work and sports.

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SOUTHAMPTON hockey player Alex Danson is celebrating after her Reading side completed a magnificent treble - becoming the first English side to win the European crown and two domestic trophies in the same season.

We've seen the pictures of the slick, state-of-the-art downtown arena, which will surely be a landmark when it opens in 2016 for all Edmontonians.

DeBruin, Veerman heading to Cornell. Corpus Christi students Caroline DeBruin and Brianna Veerman, have commited to Cornell University.

It's been a full five days since the world learned of a video allegedly showing Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack cocaine , and Ford has yet to answer a single question about the allegation.

The largest resort owner in North America is testing the market by listing seven of its resort villages - including Copper Mountain's base village - for $142.5 million.

Kimi Raikkonen would much rather be left alone but he is happy to admit that sometimes he does not know what he is doing.

Vandyk on national team ladder. Julia Vandyk participated in the national women's program's strength and conditioning camp and is off to the national team's goaltender camp next month in hopes of landing a spot in the main August camp for the under-18 team.

Pittsburgh Penguins centre Sidney Crosby reacts after scoring against Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson, bottom left, during the third period of Game 4 Wednesday night.

All 30 teams in the NHL view the NHL draft the same way. The idea is to draft a player that can be groomed, within a team's particular system, into an effective NHL player.