Today at a press conference at Budweiser Gardens, the London Sports Hall of Fame named their 2018 inductees. National Hockey League goaltender Craig Billington, Canadian Olympic volleyball player Al Coulter, para-Olympic and world championship swimmer Adam Purdy, and soccer player and builder Tom Partalas will all be inducted this year, …
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It’s great to see Canadiana in the mighty Google’s great “Google Doodle” feature today, as they are honouring Tom Longboat, an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario; who for much of his career, was the dominant long distance runner of the time. Today would …
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The London Majors got a walk-off homerun from Cleveland Brownie in the bottom of the tenth inning, to end a five and a half hour rain-delayed game with a 4-3 win over the the Kitchener Panthers. Rain hammered down in the third inning at Labatt Park on Sunday afternoon. With …
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The 2005 Memorial Cup Champion London Knights have been selected as the Canadian Hockey League (CHL)’s Team of the Century. The CHL set up an online voting program for fans to select who they thought was the best Memorial Cup winner over the last 100 championships, as part of the …
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The London Lightning are National Basketball League Canada champions again, after taking the decisive seventh game 109-101 over the Halifax Hurricanes at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax on Friday night. It is the third consecutive time that the two teams have met in the final, and there hasn’t been much between …
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Congratulations to the Western Mustangs football team, who were deservedly named Male Team of the Year by Ontario University Athletics last night at the 2017-18 OUA Honour Awards. It is a fitting final chapter, to a storybook season by the Mustangs. Western captured their first Vanier Cup in over 20 …
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In their final home game of the season, the London Lightning defeated the Halifax Hurricanes for the third consecutive time at Budweiser Gardens. With the 110-102 victory, the series heads back east to Halifax for Game 6 on Thursday, where London will play for their second consecutive NBL Championship, and …
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After falling behind 2-0 in the series, the London Lightning clawed back to even last night, with a hard-fought, 122-114 overtime victory over the Halifax Hurricanes. It was the type of gritty game that the two veteran teams were expected to put on at the start of the series, but …
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The Halifax Hurricanes have a 2-0 lead in the National Basketball League of Canada final with the London Lightning after a 100-91 victory in Halifax. The series moves to Budweiser Gardens for game three of the best-of-seven final tonight, and the Lightning will have to improve on a lacklustre effort …
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The London Lightning fell to the Halifax Hurricanes 119-106 in the first game of the National Basketball League finals. This is the third consecutive time that the two teams have met in the finals, but it was the first time that the Hurricanes had come away with 1-0 series lead. …
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