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OUA and U Sports announce new broadcasting agreements with CBC

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As of Oct. 1, the OUA and U Sports are both partnered with CBC Sports for coverage of select collegiate sporting events from now until 2025.   The agreements—which were signed on Sep. 20 and Oct. 1 for U Sports and the OUA, respectively—have notable differences in scope, but both ultimately mean digital...

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U Sports, OUA announce cancellation of fall sports

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The news many student athletes had been dreading was finally delivered on Monday afternoon.  U Sports, along with Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Canada West (CW), and Atlantic University Sports (AUS) confirmed that all fall sporting competitions will be cancelled in 2020.  The announcement follows...

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Determining the weight of words in sport

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When it comes to extreme circumstances, there’s never a correct answer. Extreme circumstances are exactly what the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) officials have faced over the past two weeks after 15 men’s hockey players and two head coaches were involved in a bench-wide hockey brawl on Feb. 2. The...

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U Sports approves policy for transgender athletes

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Last Thursday, U Sports introduced a new transgender policy with aims of creating equal opportunities for Canadian university athletes, regardless of their gender identity and expression. In a media release, U Sports touted the new policy as “leading-edge.” During the process, they consulted the Canadian...

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Queen’s wins bid for 2018 and 2019 U Sports Championships

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On June 13, U Sports announced that Queen’s would be the site of the 2018 and 2019 U Sports Cross Country Championships. The championships, which bring in the country’s best cross country runners at the university level, will take place on Nov. 10 at the Hills of Fort Henry this coming fall. For Gaels...

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Queen’s awarded 2021 U Sports Women’s Basketball Championship

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On Thursday morning, U Sports announced that Queen’s will be the site of the 2021 U Sports Basketball Championships. The event, which will be held at the ARC, is set to take place from March 11 to 14. While the distinction of hosting will give Queen’s automatic entry into the championships, the Gaels...

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A deep dive into Queen's athletics attendance rates

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  If you’ve attended a Queen’s sporting event within the last decade, often times you’ve probably found yourself in a similar predicament: ‘There’s so many seats I don’t even know which one to take.’  Up until the mid-2000s, drawing crowds into a campus stadium was never a problem.  Mervin Daub, a...

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Women’s soccer defends their home field and stays undefeated

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Women’s soccer remained undefeated this past weekend with a home win and draw against Carleton and UOttawa, respectively. Saturday’s game saw the fifth-ranked Gaels cruise to a 2-0 victory over the Carleton Ravens. With six shots on target in the first half, rookie midfielder Taylor Green put the...

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Competing to the final whistle for women’s hockey

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Very few university hockey teams in Canada can say that they played hockey on the last day of the season. On Sunday, the women’s hockey team was given that honour. After dropping their first game in the U Sports Championship to UBC on Friday, the Gaels bounced back by defeating St. Francis Xavier,...

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Curling wins fifth at U Sports national tournament

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The men’s curling team, led by seasoned skip Wesley Forget, missed out on the semifinals at the U Sports Championships in Thunder Bay this week, finishing the round robin 3-4. The team is returning to Queen’s with a fifth place finish at nationals.  Wesley Forget, the team’s 25-year-old skip and former...

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Athletic scholarships make sense across the border, not here

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Adding sports scholarships doesn’t guarantee our athletes will stay, and it may spark a cultural shift we’ll regret. Opportunities for students to play sports under full scholarships in Canada pale in comparison to American schools. Many American universities offer full scholarships for promising...

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CIS becomes U Sports

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After 15 years, Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is getting a facelift. On October 20, CIS announced a rebranding of the organization, now called U Sports — with one title, “instantly recognizable and identical in both French and English”. “This is a landmark day for us. Effective today, we are...

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