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The Coquitlam Chiefs are no more. The city’s minor hockey association has retired its name and logo, a stylized profile of a First Nations person in a long, feathered headdress.

Lief Rodgers is not going to let a little thing like a global pandemic keep him from ascending to his goal of competing on the World Cup mountain biking circuit.

Ice will be available in arena two at the Port Moody recreation complex beginning Sept. 1 and in arena one by Sept. 26. But that may not be soon enough for some groups.

Pamela Clarke has run marathons in world-class cities like New York and Chicago.

The Pacific Junior Hockey League — that includes the Port Moody Panthers — will forge ahead with a 44-game regular season beginning Sept. 29. The league also announced Tuesday its two-game Winter Classic will be played Jan.

Adam Smith likes to say “football isn’ t really just kids running into each other.” Beginning Aug. 4, the president of Coquitlam Minor Football will see just how much weight there is behind those words.

Stand by. That’s the message the coaches of the Tri-Cities’ two high school football programs sent their players and prospective players home with for the summer as the certainty of a season in the fall remains murky because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fall sports at Simon Fraser University have been sidelined. Friday, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference that includes the Burnaby school, announced all fall intercollegiate competition and championships through Nov.

It will be a while before the Coquitlam Express and other BC Hockey League teams play games again. Friday, the league set Dec. 1 as a tentative start date to its 2020/’21 season, pending approval from the provincial health office.

Some Tri-City student-athletes attending Canada West schools may get to compete for championships after all.