Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not a winner. Whether you’ve been cut from the varsity squad, are more of a beer league player or enjoy the happy medium of competitive fun, there are loads of outlets for your athletic abilities outside of the intramural world. No bench-warming, no gruelling punishments, just a whole whack […]
Sports
Posted inNews + Opinion
Thursday’s 7 things to get a read on
[Image-1] 1 The PEACE EAST festival is six years old this weekend, and organizers Chris Enns and Sherri Reeve-Enns are hoping you’ll check it out. The medical marijuana activists have been fighting the government and the courts since their businesses and home were twice raided by police over the last two years. City editor Jacob […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Wednesday’s 9 things to read while everyone else is on vacation
[Image-1] 1 A consortium of Halifax business owners and entrepreneurs will back the Rainmen’s replacement. Jonathan Briggins reports that the city’s new basketball team should be announced next week. The Halifax Wooden Monkeys? The Halifax Freds? Only time will tell. 2 The number of prison deaths in Nova Scotia are “disturbing” says Canada’s corrections watchdog. […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Halifax business owners will back Rainmen replacement
[Image-1] The future of professional basketball in Halifax remains uncertain with the start of the National Basketball League of Canada’s season just over two months away. According to league commissioner Dave Mangley, next week a group of local businesspeople will announce a new Halifax team set to play this season. The city’s previous team, the […]
Posted inLifestyle
Body movin’: a to-do list of summer activities
Canoe You don’t need a fancy sailboat to get out on the water. Saint Mary’s Boat Club offers free canoe rentals on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 7pm through summer’s end. 1641 Fairfield Road Out Of Town Raft If it’s thrill you’re looking for, you can crash down Shubenacadie River on a tidal bore […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
FIFA holds tremendously awkward Canadian press conference
[Image-1] The Women’s World Cup is used to being marginalized. Despite playing a better game, the athletes aren’t lauded like their male counterparts. They’re instead used as guinea pigs for dangerous playing surfaces, and their (now disgraced) boss has said they’d attract more viewers by dressing in sexier outfits. But with the kick-off for the […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
A stadium is necessary for Halifax growth
[Image-1] It’s a perennial debate that has weighed on the minds of city council and Haligonians alike since the early 1980s when the ill-fated Atlantic Schooners came close to playing professional football in the city. The idea of building a 20,000-seat stadium somewhere in the Halifax Regional Municipality has been embraced by some and loathed by […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Welcome to High Sticking, and the Mooseheads playoffs
Welcome to High Sticking, a Coast hockey blog. Our ex-Burger Fairy and resident hockey superfan Ryan Chisholm gets slightly toasted and sees some hockey in the press box with the big kids. Started as a burger now I’m here, started as the Burger Fairy now I’m home team reporting here. That’s right folks, the OG […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Snowboarding the streets of Dartmouth
[Image-1] “I was in Whistler actually in February, and the streets of Dartmouth were ten times better conditions.” When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the weather gives you 80 centimetres of snow, go snowboarding and “jump off stuff.” That’s the joyful ethos behind Adrian McLean’s adventures yesterday in downtown Dartmouth. While the rest […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Badminton—a darn Canadian sport
[Image-1] In a national gold medal match a few weeks ago, a badminton player earned a red card when he told the umpire—a petite gray-haired woman—to “keep track of the fucking score.” Yes, the sport can get more intense than a birdie going ping, leaving welts on faces and tearing skin from knees. But at […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
The Stanley Cup’s top defenseman
[Image-1] It’s not the worst job. Mike Bolt gets to travel the world with the most historic trophy in hockey as a keeper of the Stanley Cup. On his way to Halifax for Hockey Day in Canada, Bolt took some time to speak with The Coast about lugging around such legendary cargo. Have you been […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Peter Kelly is pursuing the stadium dream
The city is officially in pursuit of the 2015 Women’s Cup of soccer, which of course would require a stadium. There’s been a lot of talk about how to achieve that, with the options coming down to either enlarging the current Huskies stadium on the SMU campus, or building a brand new stadium somewhere else. […]
