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After an off-season full of roster turnover on the Okotoks Oilers’ defence corps the Junior A club will be glad to have the steadying force of a veteran blueliner returning to the lineup.

Junior B hockey in Okotoks is just around the corner as the defending league champions set their sights on winning a provincial title in front of their home crowd.

One of the Okotoks Dawgs ' most valuable pitchers during the 2011 season has earned a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball club he grew up cheering for.

After being routed by one of the elite high school teams in the province, the Foothills Falcons football squad is hoping to take lessons from their disappointing trip to Alberta’s capital city.

An Okotoks athlete nearly came away with a title in her hometown rodeo, but had her crown stolen away by a newcomer on the Canadian circuit. Thousands of fans packed the seats at Murray Arena from Sept.

With the off-season addition of a precocious young netminder, the Okotoks Oilers have reinforced what was already a position of strength for the Junior A hockey team.

An Okotoks lacrosse player wasn’t about to give his teammates the cold shoulder despite the fact he wouldn’t be able to play in the biggest lacrosse tournament of his young career.

A Blackie area outrider clinched his second outriding world championship at the chuckwagon races named after his father. Chad Cosgrave, 30, won the World Professional Chuckwagon Association outriding title with 8,922.

The Foothills Falcons have changed things up a bit offensively this year. The guy who used to be throwing touchdowns passes, is now catching them. It turns out former quarterback Devan Karl is a quick study.

For the past four years a minor inconvenience has prevented me from participating in a foothills tradition — the Big Rock Runners Sheep River Road Race on Labour Day. That minor inconvenience is my job.