Sports

Basketball officials throughout the province are at is again, joining forces to raise money and awareness in the third annual Call a FOUL on Cancer — Pink Whistle campaign.

The annual campaign, which runs through the month of February — strives to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society — B.C. and Yukon Division.

"There's a lot of us in our association that have been dealt the pain cancer can deliver," Don Dozzi, West Kootenay Basketball Officials Secretary/Treasurer said Saturday between games at the LVR Junior Bomber Tournament.

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily

The first round of the Murdoch playoffs have been set.

And now Terry Jones and the Hawk players can sit back and watch the Nelson Leafs and Castlegar Rebels pound the daylights out of each other during the first round of the playoffs while Beaver Valley toys with the Spokane Braves.

While nothing is set in stone come playoff time, during the past handful of seasons the team surviving the regular season test in the Murdoch Division usually wins the playoff title.

Many of us have had a special individual in our lives or in the lives of our children who has been a mentor, a friend, and a role model. These people are sports heroes—volunteers who don’t always get the recognition they deserve. With this in mind, Sport BC is bringing the Community Sport Hero Awards, presented by Teck, to Rossland and the Greater Trail area on February 22, 2012. The awards will honour long-standing local volunteers who have made significant contributions to our communities through sport. And this is where you come in.

The final two spots for Red Bull Supernatural are now spoken for with Mark McMorris (CAN) and Sage Kotsenburg (USA) both accepting their wild card invites.

These two future legends coming out of the freestyle world will join 16 other snowboarders who accepted invites to compete at Red Bull Supernatural, February 3rd through 8th at Baldface Lodge outside of Nelson, B.C., Canada.