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The new face of Bulldogs Football is Jason Lafferty. The former assistant coach with the Alberta Golden Bears replaces Chad Hill as the head coach of the division one Carr conference team at Bellerose Composite High School.

Jordan Maksymic is playing a bigger role on the offensive side of the ball for the Edmonton Eskimos as the pass-game coordinator while coaching the quarterbacks for the third year in a row on the Canadian Football League team.

Norwest baseball The St. Albert Cardinals are up to bat tonight in the Norwest Midget AAA Baseball League. The first pitch is 6:30 p.m.

Storm rising The St. Albert Storm share second place with one game left in the Capital District Minor Football Association midget spring league.

Dan Holowaychuk is still vibrating from the aftershock of winning the world senior men’s curling championship with the Wade White rink. “It’s a pretty good feeling,” a revved-up Holowaychuk told the Gazette on Monday morning upon returning to St.

Registrations for the eighth annual Leading Edge Physiotherapy RunWild are ahead of last year’s pace by 350 runners and walkers. Monday’s total of 1,525 includes 600 for the 1.3-kilometre WildOnes Kids MaraFun and 300 for the 10-km walk/run.

An historic Esso Cup repeat solidified the legacy status for the St. Albert Ron Hodgson Slash.

The legacy of greatness of the St. Albert Ron Hodgson Slash continued as back-to-back Esso Cup national champions.

Right the wrong is the motto of the premier men’s team in the aftermath of the most disappointing season in the modern era of the St. Albert Rugby Football Club.

Premier women The St. Albert Impact are represented by three teams in the premier women’s division for the second consecutive outdoor season in the Edmonton District Soccer Association.