Niagara Youth Flag Football continues to enjoy explosive growth. The association, which featured about 320 kids in its house league last fall, has ballooned to 530 participants playing outdoors every...
Notre Dame’s dominance of tackle football spilled over into touch football Friday afternoon at Saint Paul. Competing in the finals of the Fifth Annual Niagara Catholic Seven on Seven Passing...
On the morning after being selected 22nd overall by the Ottawa Redblacks in the 2022 CFL Draft, Keaton Bruggeling returned to where his football journey began. The 24-year Port Dalhousie...
2021 Jan Cook Award winner Marshall McCray and his parents, James and Monique. The ability to beat opposing defences with his feet and his arm made Marshall McCray an easy...
Josh Morley is thrilled with the return of Niagara Spears football. “It has been three years and it is more than exciting,” the 12B student at Sir Winston Churchill said...
Count Josh Horton among the disciples of flag football. “Touch football is great,” said the Grade 11 student at A.N. Myer, who is taking part in Niagara Youth Flag Football’s...
Looking back to the end of his Grade 11 season, no one would have expected to see A.N. Myer’s Owen Twose committing this week to play football for the York...
On game day when Fred Girardo and John Zeman coached junior football at Saint Paul, their players would come to school with their jerseys worn over a shirt and tie....
Josh Mosley had been working out in preparation for a Canadian Football League combine when he got a call that changed everything. On the other end of the line was...
Niagara Youth Flag Football took over Youngs Sportsplex last Saturday. About 150 athletes, including a three-year-old participant, were taking part in the opening night of the association’s winter camp at...
The long, long wait for Niagara Spears football players to return to action is hopefully coming to an end. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were cancelled because of the COVID-19...
Johnny Augustine’s day with the Grey Cup included a must-stop at Notre Dame. The 2021 CFL champion with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was at the Welland high school Thursday morning...
Tommy Denison’s long coaching journey has come full circle. The 43-year-old former Beamsville resident started coaching at York University from 2005 to 2007 and in 2020 he returned to York...
York University was always at the top of Drake Somerville’s list of destinations. On Wednesday, the A.N. Myer quarterback made it official by signing with the Toronto university along with...
Not even a mask could hide the excitement Quinton Douglas felt Wednesday after signing a scholarship offer to play football for the York Lions. “It’s super, super special and it...
When Chris McBride retired from St. Catharines Collegiate in 2015, it left a hole in the classroom and on the football field. “At his farewell party, Tammy (then-principal Zonneveld) after...
Zorique Olayori made the most of his 12B year of high school football. The 18-year-old Niagara Falls resident, who turns 19 in two weeks, played his first three years of...
Greater Fort Erie's Torrey Sowden (87) was named the defensive MVP of the Tier 2 football league. Grimsby offensive lineman Evan Reece and Governor Simcoe quarterback Danny Lewis were named...
Drake Somerville (14), pictured above, has been named the offensive MVP of the NRHSAA Tier 1 football league. Myer quarterback Drake Somerville and Sir Winston Churchill defensive back/safety Josh Morley...
Matt Hill built an impressive flag football coaching resume in his hometown. The Hamilton native coached a squad that won a provincial, national and world championship in New Orleans and...
Torrey Sowden’s five days spent preparing and competing at the 2021 Indigenous Bowl in Minneapolis was the thrill of a lifetime. But no moment compared to the first time he...
Youngs Sportsplex in Welland was a sea of Buffalo Bills’ blue and red colours Saturday afternoon. Football Ontario reached out to the Niagara Regional Minor Football Association about a partnership...
For a long time, Murray Morlog was a familiar face on football fields across Ontario. The 65-year-old Port Colborne native, who moved to Fort Erie with his family when he...
Notre Dame's Marshall McCray (1) was named the offensive MVP of the Niagara Catholic Athletic Association senior football league. The final for the Niagara Catholic Athletic Association...
The third time was the charm for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish senior football team in Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations bowl play. After losing 57-7 to St. Thomas...
Over the past seven days, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish senior football team has rode the running of Tal Ibrahim and quarterback Marshall McCray to a pair of bowl victories....
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish senior football team rode the powerful running of Tal Ibrahim and Marshall McCray to an impressive 36-7 victory over the A.N. Myer Marauders in the...
The Grimsby Eagles brought a little bit of home with them for the school’s final football game ever. Head coach Zach Silverthorne and his captains dug out a box of...
Somewhere in the musty and dusty cold room in the basement of my modest bungalow sits about 20 years of newspaper clippings detailing pretty much every senior high school football...
Kicker Lirim Hajrullahu made his debut with the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday in a 43-3 win over the Atlanta Falcons. DALLAS COWOYS PHOTO It’s Monday night at a hotel near...
