Sport Calgary has unveiled its new “Keep Calgary Playing” campaign to get governments to invest in recreation and sport.
Joe McFarland shares a few thoughts on how everyone in Western Canada should be taking notice, even in baseball circles.
Read More OPINION: Keep Everyone PlayingHudson Harding could hardly believe he was there.
Under a near-perfect fall sky in Vancouver, the Calgary native was among several Albertans helping Team New Blue capture the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase championship.
Read More Hustlin’ HardWhat a year it was for St. Albert’s Logan Colville.
He was named the Edmonton Collegiate Hawks Pitcher of the Year, then was an All-West Coast League Second Team selection after a stellar summer with the Edmonton Riverhawks.
Read More Swooping InThere’s a growth spurt and then there’s Lucas Carroll.
Standing next to the 6-foot-1, 201-pound backstop at his first Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase, you’d never imagine that just a couple of years ago, he was a 5-foot-8, 150-pound prospect trying to make it with Webber Academy.
Yet here he was, suiting up with Team Red and facing some of the most talented high school players in Canada.
Read More Got Milk?Gabe Fink flew to Vancouver for the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase with one thing on his mind: retribution.
A year earlier, the highly touted Edmonton native struggled with his command in his one outing at the showcase.
Undeterred and buoyed by being among the first 50 players invited to this year’s event, he wanted to make amends and did so in a big way.
Read More Fink Around and Find OutFive days. 12 stories written (and more to come). 15 stories edited (and more to come). Five podcast episodes (you get the point).
And an experience that you won’t find anywhere else.
Joe McFarland has more on his experience at the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase.
Read More OPINION: Showing Out in VancouverHe was left almost speechless.
Dayne Liske couldn’t believe what just transpired and even his Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase teammates were wide-eyed.
The Drayton Valley hit two home runs in two innings in Saturday morning’s Team Royal win over Team Navy.
Read More Showcasing with … Dayne LiskeStepping onto the mound at Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Park in Vancouver, Jake Trask had two things on his mind.
Throw strikes and do it for his home province.
The New Minas, Nova Scotia native proceeded to make his competition uncomfortable in the batter’s box at the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase.
Read More Up to the TraskThe old saying goes that you have to be lucky to be good and good to be lucky.
Luck really didn’t have anything to do with the first home run hit during game play at the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase, which came off the bat of Vauxhall Academy product Hudson Nikkel.
Read More Showcasing with … Hudson NikkelIn honour of National Coaches Week, our Joe McFarland takes a look back at his summer spent coaching t-ball and coach-pitch.
Read More OPINION: Thanks Coach!