Sports

Canadian left-fielder Jason Bay married an American, has two American daughters and makes his living playing America’s pastime.

Dalton Wassick of the Red Deer Rampage gets a shot on Sherwood Park Titan goalie Brock Hamley in tier I junior B lacrosse action at the Kinex Thursday. No score was available at press time.

Red Deer athletes won 47 medals in the Special Olympics Alberta Summer Games in St. Albert, with Thomasina Payne and Sam Rahbek-Ward leading the way with three gold medals apiece.

Richard Williams refuses to watch his daughters Venus and Serena play each other. Says he simply can’t bear to see it, no matter the setting, no matter the stage.

The Ottawa Senators appear to be back at Square 1 in the Dany Heatley saga.

Andrew Jevne, a wide receiver from Sylvan Lake’s H.J. Cody School, pulls in a pass to beat defender Scott Wendell of Medicine Hat during a Football Alberta training and development camp at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School on Thursday. Jevne joined other Senior Bowl high school football U19 division all-stars in the three-day camp to get ready for the Football Canada Cup in Saskatoon July 4-12.

Red Deer golfer Carson Kallis took top honours in the boys’ division of the CN Future Links Prairie Championship with a three-day score of 11-under 205.

The Edmonton Eskimos won their season opener, but unfortunately for them running back Jesse Lumsden wasn’t a very big part of it.

Goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin is pumped to come to Edmonton in a deal he says is more about the timeline than the bottom line.

The Calgary Flames aren’t the only ones who think they’ll have a standout defence next season.