Sports & Fitness
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Growing stronger
Wesmen wrestling program gets more athletes and support
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Their best offence is good defence
Wesmen men’s volleyball team swaps strategies this season
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Bouncin’ good times
Bubble soccer ‘a cross between soccer and bumper cars’
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Balls to the wall
Winnipeg dodgeball is taking a leap to the next level
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Breaking ground
New blood in the men’s Wesmen soccer ranks
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Coming back strong
The University of Winnipeg Wesmen women’s soccer team has a new outlook on competition in 2015.
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On the Top Rope
There’s a boom happening in Winnipeg right now. It’s a local scene experiencing the type of renaissance that one rarely sees in action. There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it, because it receives virtually no coverage from the local press.
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A Fine Balance
Stephanie Kleysen works harder than you. As a five-year Wesmen veteran and captain of the women’s basketball team, Netflix black holes and other time-sucking, brain-numbing hobbies simply don’t exist on the young athlete’s watch.
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A quarter tank of passion
The Winnipeg Jets are stuck at a crossroads.
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The value of play
There are a few things in life that transcend the divides of language, affluence, status and belief – a few rituals that connect groups of people on a level that words just don’t do justice. These collaborations creating unspoken bonds most often take the form of music, art, dance and sport. When our most ingrained patterns of social behavior become stripped away, what’s left?
It’s simple: nothing but play.
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Given Isaac giving hope
Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference (MCAC) Wesmen basketball player Given Isaac is a player to keep an eye on in the next few years.
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Keep your pants on
I’ve never conducted an interview in just a bra before, but when I sat down with Tahea Mack and Elisha Ewonchuk – owners of Fantasy Pole Dancing – I felt anything but discomfort and awkwardness.
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Wesmen men’s basketball team advances to final four in playoffs
They finally did it.
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‘The value was in the whole experience’
Just as soon as the Wesmen women’s basketball team began a month-long break from regular season games, they were packing their bags and heading overseas.
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Hockey’s back?
The NHL drops the puck this Saturday, Jan. 19, kicking off a 48-game regular season schedule, a season shortened by the 113-day lockout of the league’s players by its owners.
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Wesmen News Briefs
Wesmen fall short in effort to clinch Wesmen Classic basketball championship; Wesmen wrestlers disappoint in Alberta Golden Bears invitational tournament
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U of W boot camp works whole body with just one weight
One-armed swings, goblet squats and the over-head press are just some of the exercises that combine cardiovascular movement, strength building and flexibility using just one kettlebell.
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Get in the ring
After several rounds of sparring, Mary Spencer steps out of the ring at Winnipeg Elite Boxing MMA Academy and it’s immediately apparent she’s quick to make friends with her approachable personality and infectious laugh.
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Pretty ponies and pistols prove that dreams can come true
My jaw dropped. Saucer-eyed, I sat frozen in a ridicule gawk. This can’t be real… Oh my crow, this is real.
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Keeping up the momentum
Amid controversy over a possible name change, the Wesmen volleyball teams prepare for a new season.