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Sports columnist Jim Taylor was so dedicated that he once covered the 1963 Grey Cup at Empire Stadium in Vancouver, featuring his beloved B.C.

Coquitlam’s Kendal Sands was one of three Simon Fraser University players to score eight points as the Clan women’s basketball team defeated the University of Alaska Fairbanks 59-46 on Saturday.

The Chilliwack Chiefs scored four times in the third period — one of them into an empty net — to defeat the Coquitlam Express 5-3 in their BC Hockey League game Saturday at the Prospera Centre in Chilliwack.

A Port Moody connection is leading a Port Moody hockey player to the University of Michigan. Kent Johnson has committed to play for the Wolverines in Ann Arbour, Mich. in 2020-21.

Port Coquitlam’s Ozioma Nwabuko scored 10 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough as her Simon Fraser University Clan women’s basketball team lost its first conference road game of the season, 70-55 to the University of Alaska Anchor

Moving the BC Soccer Premier League under the leadership of BC Soccer will create more opportunities for young players looking to play at the university level or even graduate to the new Canadian Premier League, says the executive director of BC Socc

It wasn’t quite the happy new year the Vancouver Northeast Chiefs were hoping for.

Not a lot of basketball teams start practice by watching a football video. But Gleneagle Talons coach Jason Bingley says building a team is about more than drilling his charges with chase down layups and collision dribbling.

Once the excitement of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships in Vancouver has faded, and the Vancouver Canucks go into their inevitable mid-season swoon, there will still be plenty of local sporting events worthy of your attention in January: •

Coquitlam’s Graham Miller scored 12 points to help his Simon Fraser University Clan men’s basketball team to a 127-75 rout of the Trinity Western University Spartans Sunday at SFU. Miller, a sophomore out of Dr.