VANCOUVER — Greg Klazura wasn’t invited to the Major League Soccer player combine this year and wasn’t among the 38 players selected in the league SuperDraft last month.The Vancouver Whitecaps grabbed the Notre Dame defender with the 21st overall pick in the MLS supplemental draft a week later.But Klazura has something …

DETROIT — Five days before the National Hockey League trading deadline, Byron Bitz returned to the ice Wednesday and insisted his sore hip is unrelated to abdominal problems that jeopardized his career.Now it’s up to the Vancouver Canucks to believe him.“It’s probably a worry for them,” Bitz said after practising on his …

DETROIT -- Like anyone needs another reason to look forward to a game between the Red Wings and Canucks.They are the two best teams in the league, based on points.They play two of the most exciting styles and employ some of the game's most exciting players.And now history is on the line.Short of a Western Conference final, …

Talk about being on a fast track.In just eight months Victoria cyclist Gillian Carleton has gone from being a road racer with no track experience to joining Edmonton’s Tara Whitten and Burnaby’s Jasmin Glaesser on a Canadian team pursuit squad that rode into 2012 Olympic medal contention with a silver at a World Cup on …

RED DEER, Alta. — In a week full of uncertainty, B.C.’s Kelly Scott hasn’t lost her focus at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.Quite the opposite, in fact, as the two-time Canadian women’s curling champion will head into the final day of the round-robin schedule at the Enmax Centrium in position for a playoff spot, despite …

Dawson Creek RCMP have identified Jason Patrick Foster as the man who died at the Encana Event Center Feb. 14 after being assaulted by a group of males.

NASHVILLE — The Vancouver Canucks have their man. But can they keep him in the lineup?Byron Bitz so perfectly seemed to fill the Canucks' need for more size, grit and toughness among their bottom six forwards that his unheralded acquisition last summer by general manager Mike Gillis seemed an act of brilliant prescience.Bitz …

NASHVILLE – The spotlight is usually on Kevin Bieksa and Dan Hamhuis, the first-mentioned defenceman pinching and jumping into the play, the latter rarely ever being out of position.They're the Canucks' go-to pairing. They play against the big guns.But ask opposing coaches and many will say the defensive pairing of Alex …