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Pro and elite athletes just love their psychiatrists and psychologists
There is nary a pro or elite athlete these days who doesn’t have a personal psychiatrist or psychologist – or at least access to one provided by their team. During the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, I...
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Andrew “Canadian Jordan” Wiggins’s high school highlight reel is unreal
Canadian basketball phenom Andrew Wiggins was named Gatorade national high school player of the year in the U.S on Wednesday. The 6-8 Toronto native, who had previously won the James Naismith Award as...
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Celtics rookie Olynyk has NBA buzzing
Last year, when Kamloops basketball product Kelly Olynyk was starting his junior year at Gonzaga University, the seven-footer was one season removed from red shirting for the Zags and he wasn’t even a...
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Conference Board says Vancouver could support the NBA’s return
Vancouver is ready to welcome back the NBA, says the Conference Board of Canada … and nobody else. The NBA left town (along with a bad taste in the mouths of Vancouver sports fans) in 2001 after six...
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Canucks GM Jim Benning adds former Boston Bruins scout Weisbrod to hockey...
Another former Boston Bruins’ executive has joined the Canucks’ hockey operations staff. Canucks general manager Jim Benning, who served as assistant general manager in Boston before behind lured to...
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Flyin’ Ryan leads the charge in Fort Langley; Surrey has a new baby in Beats...
FORT LANGLEY — Back in the good old days — like when conversation was much cooler than texting and twerking was a running injury and not a dance move — fur traders believed the fastest way to move...
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Plenty of tickets remaining for Canadiens-Canucks game
The sellout streak ended at 474 games earlier this month when the Vancouver Canucks couldn’t unload enough tickets to fill Rogers Arena — on a Saturday night … with Steven Stamkos in town. In all...
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Vancouver city council officially approves Pat Quinn Way
A section of Abbott Street next to Rogers Arena has officially been renamed Pat Quinn Way, in honour the late Vancouver Canucks boss. Quinn, a former Canuck player, coach, general manager and...
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Jon Bon Jovi concert in Stanley Park cancelled due to bad planning, poor...
Not even halfway there. UPDATE (Aug. 19, 5 p.m.): Paper Rain Performances has filed for bankruptcy. We will update our stories at vancouversun.com/entertainment as soon as possible. UPDATE (Aug. 19):...
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Horror weekend weather leaves at least 11 dead after Texas tornadoes; 13 dead...
GARLAND, Texas — At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage this weekend, while 13 people died in flooding in...
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B.C. sports history: Panning for 50 golden moments
VANCOUVER — The way many (mostly younger) British Columbians live and die with the fortunes of the Vancouver Canucks, their 50 greatest moments in B.C. sports history might start with the first...
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Video: Shareef Abdur-Rahim Bell NBA All Star Challenge
Former Vancouver Grizzly Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Shareef was the face of basketball in Western Canada during the Grizzlies time in Vancouver throughout the 1990’s. A smooth scorer who’s on...
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West Vancouver's Simmerling gunning for third Olympic appearance – in third...
When Georgia Simmerling crouches at the start of a ski race, and stares down the menacing track, she knows the memory of countless hours of training and racing is stored in her muscles. She knows her...
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Hemlines: Ashley Graham, Addition Elle bring sexy to the everyday
Supermodel Ashley Graham is looking to amp up the everyday sex appeal of basic underthings with a new range for Addition Elle. The Ashley Graham Essentials collection, which is available now, includes...
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Iain MacIntyre: Sun's sports engine room loses thrust of Ziemer, Kingston
When we were kings, The Vancouver Sun sold about a quarter-million copies a day and few sports readers in the country were more elegantly, entertainingly and accurately informed than this newspaper’s....
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NBA Saturday: Warriors, Hawks, Thunder win playoff openers
OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry dazzled from long range and drove to the hoop with flair and fire until a tweaked ankle finally slowed him down. Once he sat for good after three firm requests to coach...
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Twenty Years Ago Today: Grizzlies inaugural season ends with tell-tale signs...
My final game report on our city’s first season in the NBA came 20 years ago today and carried a Los Angeles dateline. It began like this: Music from heaven never sounded so good. A season in hell for...
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Sports Bulls and Bears: Raptors' ascendance indicative of NBA's post-season...
Sorting out the major winners and losers of this week — with a bottom-line twist — in the world of sports: BULLS OF THE WEEK We’re bullish on the Toronto Raptors, the only Canadian team among the 32...
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Sports Bulls and Bears: Leicester City still the Premier attraction
BULLS OF THE WEEK It has been a great month or so to be a baseball fan in Chicago, with the National League Cubs (21-6) and American League White Sox (19-10) playing at a combined clip of .717 with 40...
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Video: NBA star Rob Sacre returns home to play with kids
North Vancouver-raised Rob Sacre returns home to take part in a camp for kids to give back to the community. He also talks about how he felt about playing in Kobe Bryant’s last game, and who he thinks...
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