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On Monday, April 4, 2011, the Butler Bulldogs and Connecticut Huskies played a championship basketball game that would have made John Wooden have an epileptic seizure if he were alive. After the two teams drained a percentage of shots (26 per cent) that you may be expected to be made by a couple of zombies [...]
Only a week after capturing their second-straight Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship, the women’s Tommies travelled to Lethbridge, Alta. for this year’s Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association national tournament. Of the eight teams in the tournament, the St. Thomas University team faced the longest leg, playing in the tournament’s opening game on Thursday. But the travel [...]
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After sending the final game of the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship into overtime, where the Tommies beat Mount Saint Vincent, Corey Delong is bringing home another piece of hardware. Delong and his teammates won the bronze medal game at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championships this past weekend in Truro, N.S, beating [...]
Continue reading …As Canada’s population continues to rise, you can expect the number of immigrants entering the country to rise with it. A country commonly known to accept people from away as its own, Canada has become one of the world’s most prominent examples of multiculturalism. But Canada’s multiculturalism is beginning to cause a problem in Canadian [...]
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An exciting Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association final between the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics and the St. Thomas University Tommies took place Sunday afternoon, with the Tommies upsetting the favored Mystics 70-63 in overtime. “In the back of my mind, I was still thinking this just puts us into overtime, we still have work to do,” [...]
Continue reading …Second-straight ACAA championship win ‘mind-blowing’ for STU women’s basketball coach
March 6, 2012 Comments Off
It was the fifth straight year the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics and St. Thomas University lady Tommies met in the deciding game for the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association for women’s basketball. Tommies coach, Fred Connors, played everyone in the earlier games of the tournament, giving the starters more time to rest for that final game. [...]
Continue reading …Men’s basketball head coach Dwight Dickinson talks failures and successes on and off the court
February 14, 2012 Comments OffDwight Dickinson remembers running through the hay field. The hay towered over him; it was all he could see. He was five years old. His brother was driving the tractor through the field, cutting the hay so it could be bailed. The tractor caught young Dickinson by the leg and severed the area above his [...]
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The floor of the South Gym is old, slippery and uneven. There aren’t any bleachers so the fans have to sit in plastic chairs along the sideline. The sports teams use public washrooms as changing rooms and four coaches share one office. The lights flicker and sometimes even go out. “If we’re going to compare [...]
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John McCann waves the flag for his daughter’s team and teaches students a thing or two about bringing college spirit to the stands amidst STU’s known attendance problems Everyone who sat near John McCann watched his St. Thomas flag cut through the air above their heads. He sat among Mount Allison sweaters, but had a [...]
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The women’s Tommies basketball team dominated the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Rams en route to a 91-22 victory. Leading 48-6 at half time, STU’s red hot defense forced the opposing team to commit 49 turnovers in the game. Renee Leblanc led the team, scoring 18 points, while going four for six at the three point [...]
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