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Coming off a perfect Central Alberta High School Football League season, the defending champion Hunting Hills Lightning should be one of the favourites heading into the 2011 season.

On paper the RDC Queens can field a team that will be very competitive in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Soccer League.

With nine veterans in camp the RDC Kings have a solid nucleus heading into the Alberta Colleges Men’s Soccer League season.

The CFL has just completed the front nine of the 2011 schedule, so it is a great time to rank the teams after half a season. The Labour Day weekend show forced me to reassess the positions in the 11th hour.

Men’s hockey could be back at Red Deer College as early as next winter.“If things go according to plan, we could be fielding a team in less than a year,” said RDC president Joel Ward.

Red Deer Golf and Country Club member Tom Skinner carded a 6-over par 78 Wednesday and failed to survive the 70-player cut at the Canadian men’s mid amateur championship.

The black cloud that’s hanging over the hockey world might seem extra dark to Jesse Wallin.

He’s certainly not complaining, but the Calgary Flames made summer a whole lot more strenuous for Turner Elson.

Age is a state of mind.Ask the Red Deer Rebels, who iced a considerably younger and more inexperienced team than the Swift Current Broncos did Monday, yet prevailed 5-4 on Marc McCoy’s third goal of the game at 4:31 of overtime.

Chase McMurphy might be the big, fast fish that got away.Either that, or he’s a player who may never realize his true potential.