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RDC Queens basketball head coach Dawn Smyth is taking an optimistic yet cautious approach to the Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League season.

Tim Pratt of the Red Deer BMX Club was the fastest in two categories in the Alberta Bicycle championship races Sunday at St. Albert.

If you have not got it by now then there is always next year. I personally do not look at it this way but some of you might. In golf there is always tomorrow. But as we near the end of the golf season the courses will soon close their doors, there will soon be no tomorrow.

The first step in bringing men’s hockey back to Red Deer College is all but done.RDC will make their application by the Nov. 15 deadline to rejoin the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference for the 2013-14 season.

The RDC Kings hockey program is a step closer to being revived.RDC officials announced this morning that they’re officially taking the first step toward submitting an application to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference to rejoin the men’s hockey league, possibly in the 2013-14 season. The Kings dropped out of the league in 2004 because of financial restraints.

Red Deer Rebels general manager/head coach Jesse Wallin is hoping that Saturday’s Western Hockey League preseason loss was a lesson learned for his charges.The Rebels were outshot 41-19 while dropping a 5-3 decision to the Calgary Hitmen at Flames Community Arenas, but Wallin was all about taking something positive out of an otherwise negative situation.

The Red Deer Rebels perfect pre-season finally came to an end Saturday night in Calgary.

Edmonton’s Miraj Patel bowls to Calgary batsman Farooq Quriski during under-19 western Canadian cricket tournament action at the Collicutt Centre pitch Saturday.

MEDICINE HAT ­­— The RDC Kings and Queens soccer teams both kicked off the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference seasons with 2-2 ties Saturday against the Medicine Hat Tigers.

The Red Deer Rebels aren’t wasting any time developing good habits.