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An Okotoks Black Dawg had some extra push to his weight training in the off-season. Jared Frew’s memory of losing the Performance Midget National championship in extra innings last August had him working extra hard in the winter.

There are always going to be a few twists and turns to a friendship that has lasted a decade. The 10th annual Big Rock Runners Friendship Run is May 12 at 9 p.m. starting at the Okotoks Recreation Centre.

A Millarville youth will be spending a large part of his summer on a trampoline and jumping into the water in one of the most scenic parts of British Columbia.

The defending Big Sky Rugby Union champions have kicked off their bid for consecutive titles in the 11-team league in fine form.

An experienced athlete from a prolific curling family is entering his second marriage in Black Diamond.

The Oilfields Drillers are showing the drive to play in the Big Sky Boys High School Rugby Union, however, they had too many young drivers in their 28-19 loss to the Strathcona-Tweedsmuir Spartans on May 10.

Hockey Calgary’s proposal to ban legal bodychecking at every division at the Peewee level should not be replicated in the foothills, says an Okotoks Peewee Tier 1 head coach.

Nine Okotoks hockey prospects got a rare opportunity to hit the ice donning the hometown jerseys of the Oilers on the weekend, an arrangement they hope to make permanent in the near future.

For the first time in over a decade an Okotokian lifted Alberta’s ultimate trophy at the Junior A level.

The Okotoks Raiders are continuing their tradition with Ontario coaches in 2012. Daryl Haynes is taking over the leadership reins for the Junior A Raiders after three-year head coach and fellow-Ontarian Bruce Codd moved back to his home province.