On Wednesday, the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) announced the 2017-18 CCAA Academic All-Canadian award recipients. This year, 165 student-athletes combined excellence in collegiate athletics and academics enough to be recognized. Six of them Fanshawe Falcons. The CCAA Academic All-Canadian award is the CCAA’s most prestigious student-athlete honour.. Here are …
Read More »River Lions Inch Back Within One Of Lightning In Quarterfinal Series
The Niagara River Lions capitalized on their first home court advantage of the series, and defeated the London Lightning 124-115 in Game 3 at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines. Niagara outshot the Lightning from the field, three-point range, and the free throw line, to give themselves another playoff date …
Read More »Lightning Try To Close Out Series Tonight Against River Lions
The London Lightning will face the Niagara River Lions at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, in game three of the National Basketball League quarterfinals tonight at 7:00pm. London will be trying to close out the five-game series with their third consecutive win. Having scored 275 points in the previous …
Read More »Lightning Spank River Lions Again To Take Commanding Lead In Series
The London Lightning rolled all over the Niagara River Lions in the second half, outscoring them by 29 points, en route to another decisive 124-98 win. They now hold a commanding 2-0 lead in the five-game series, as they head back to Niagara Falls on Tuesday night. The Lightning started …
Read More »Humboldt Broncos
The London Beat would like to extend their deepest sympathies to the entire Humboldt Broncos community. There are no words to describe this terrible tragedy – no sense to be made of it all. It’s one of those happenings that is so awful that it can challenge your belief and …
Read More »Knights Nab High Scoring Winger Evangelista With First Round Pick
(Updated 5:28pm) The 2018 OHL “Priority Selection” began today at 9:00am. Three hundred selections, 15 rounds, and the Knights owning the 14th overall pick. With the pick they selected Luke Evangelista from with Oakville Rangers minor midget AAA team. Nephew of Brendan Shanahan, Evangelista netted a gaudy 37 goals in …
Read More »Lightning Strike First In NBL Playoffs
The London Lightning crushed the Niagara River Lions 151-115 in the opening game of the National Basketball League of Canada’s quarterfinals. It was never in doubt. The two teams have no love loss between them, and London used that emotion to dominate the River Lions up and down the court. …
Read More »Canada Kicks Is Coming To London
Attention all Footie faithful – Canada Kicks is coming to London in both May and September! This is their inaugural season and they will be putting on six different events across Ontario. Two of them will be in London – one in May at Regina Mundi College, and one in …
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