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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.

As some summer youth basketball programs struggle to find a way to operate amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Coquitlam’s Panther Hoops is taking it to the streets — or, more specifically, the parking lot — thanks to the collective effort of some voluntee

Coquitlam Express forward Massimo Rizzo is on the market. According to a report in the Grand Forks Herald, Rizzo has asked for a release from his commitment to attend the University of North Dakota beginning in September.

At 6’4”, 300-pounds, the Grade 11 offensive tackle is heading to Florida at a time when the state has registered over 11,000 new COVID-19 infections per day.

Coquitlam Metro-Ford started practice sessions in late June. PoCo Euro-Rite FC begins a four-week training program on July 6

One Port Moody family faces difficult decisions as daughters set to go away to study and compete