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Home playoff date within UBC’s reach, but No. 1 Dinos stand in way Saturday...
VANCOUVER — The Calgary Dinos won’t be playing their full complement of players on Saturday, yet from a UBC perspective, it would be foolish to believe that the nation’s No. 1-ranked team, vying for...
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QB Greene, coach Olson follow similar paths to roles as playmaker and mentor...
VANCOUVER — On Thursday morning, just before 9 a.m., with a television crew waiting for him inside Thunderbird Stadium and an English mid-term set to begin at 9:30, the leading passer in all of...
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Defence holds fort, Greene and UBC offence awaken in second half to top...
VANCOUVER — If you went strictly by the defensive numbers, you wouldn’t expect the UBC Thunderbirds to be the kind of football team contending for a Canada West championship. Yet over a win streak that...
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UBC’s Greene the West’s Hec finalist, Olson gets nod as CIS Coach of Year...
The honours keep pouring in for the leading passer in all of Canadian university football. Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Thursday that UBC Thunderbirds’ quarterback and Canada West MVP Billy...
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Serge Kaminsky: UBC’s heart-and-soul football guy helps engineer the big...
VANCOUVER — It was getting near the end of a mid-season practice at Richmond’s Hugh Boyd Secondary when Trojans’ coach Bill Haddow spotted a physically cut, 6-foot-3, 255-pound athlete fully engaged on...
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Hec Crighton Award winner: UBC’s Billy Greene honoured with nation’s top...
Interstesting about those initials. On the day that UBC Thunderbirds’ quarterback Billy Greene was born, his mom and dad couldn’t come to a mutual decision on what to call their baby son. “My parents...
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UBC coach Olson feels 0-8 adversity will reveal true character of ‘Birds...
VANCOUVER — An administrative error which collected dust for three years has rocked the UBC Thunderbirds football program. On Tuesday, the Canada West conference stripped the Thunderbirds of all of its...
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CIS MVP’s, NAIA champs, Olympians: UBC’s Big Block Awards celebrate sterling...
VANCOUVER — How tough was the competition to earn accolades Wednesday evening at UBC’s 91st annual Big Block awards? How this for starters? A total of seven athletes were nominated for the two main...
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Olson, staff stay the course after roller-coaster 2011 season, bring...
VANCOUVER — In a manner of speaking you could call it the best recruiting class that an 0-8 team has had in the history of CIS football. Much closer to the truth, however, is that a very good football...
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Going Greene remains great for UBC football in 2012, ‘Birds defence set for...
VANCOUVER — Spend an afternoon on the sidelines at the UBC Thunderbirds’ fall football camp, and one thing becomes perfectly clear. No one set to don the blue and gold for Saturday’s season-opening...
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Speedy backup QB Spagnuolo emerges as Thunderbirds fall to Menlo in...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds appear to have all the horses they’ll need at the quarterback position, both in the present and well into the future. In what amounted to an open audition of virtually...
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Former prep star Keynan Parker returns home, set to play offence and defence...
BURNABY — Keynan Parker says its didn’t take him too long to regain his identity on the offensive side of the football. “The first couple of days were a little rough,” the former standout with...
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Bisons’ top rusher Coombs shelved, but ‘Birds still bracing run defence for a...
VANCOUVER –No one has to tell UBC head football coach Shawn Olson that the Manitoba Bisons, the team his Thunderbirds open against Saturday to christen the start of a new Canada West football season,...
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Focus, precision nowhere to be found as Birds turn in sloppy effort to open...
VANCOUVER — Shawn Olson didn’t know where to start. The uneccesary roughness penalty that led to the decisive touchdown? The fumble on the punt return that was supposed to give his football team a...
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All signs point up field, experts agree talent level in B.C. high school...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds boast Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s reigning Most Valuable Player in Hec Crighton Trophy winner Billy Greene of Surrey’s Holy Cross Secondary. The NCAA Div. 2 Simon...
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Adam Berger, Kyle Miller: High school roomies now Clan’s hard-hitting...
BURNABY — By Dave Johnson’s math, the head coach of the Simon Fraser Clan football team is talking about three of his players when in actuality, he’s talking about just two. What’s certain is that...
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Nightmare second half does in UBC as ‘Birds trampled 49-20 by host Regina Rams
If you saw the score at halftime, you might wonder how on earth the UBC Thunderbirds arrived at their final fate Friday night at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium. UBC (0-2) led the host Rams 13-7 at the break,...
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UBC pivot Greene tends to injured knee, status for Saturday’s home date vs....
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds are trying to fight their way out of an 0-2 start to its Canada West football season, but with the Saskatchewan Huskies headed to Thunderbird Stadium on Saturday (2...
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UBC-Saskatchewan: ‘Birds coach Olson on health at QB and the return to...
VANCOUVER — Just over 48 hours to kick-off against the Saskatchewan Huskies on Saturday (2 p.m.) at Thunderbird Stadium as the 0-2 Birds get ready for their homecoming game. Make no mistake about it,...
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University wrap-up: Football ‘Birds struggle to find consistency, Clan fall...
VANCOUVER — Last season, the UBC Thunderbirds set a pretty high bar of who they were as a football team and what they could become moving forward following a 6-2 record season. Well, with one more game...
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No. 2 Dinos drill Thunderbirds 62-7 in one of the most lopsided losses in UBC...
Just 10 months removed from playing in the Canada West’s Hardy Cup championship game, at the juncture of a season when the good teams are hitting their stride in anticipation of a playoff run, the...
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Bo Palmer, the little guy with the big wheels, drives Clan to key GNAC...
BURNABY — The Simon Fraser Clan have gone a little pass-happy this season, with a quarterback and a wide receiver who lead the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in passing and receiving yardage. Yet...
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10.27.12 Uni Notes: Soccer, volleyball and a fond farewell to UBC quarterback...
LANGLEY — On a night when they set a new conference record for points in a season, the UBC Thunderbirds men’s soccer team made a point that the best teams do what they need to do to get the job done....
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Awards week 2013: B.C.’s CIS and NCAA sports programs take time to honour...
VANCOUVER — Over the past 12 months, they have competed for conference and national championship honours, and in the process, continued to keep this province’s university sports community among the...
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Vigini and Wiens: B.C.’s two high school defensive MVPs get in on ground...
VANCOUVER — You’ve hired a new defensive coordinator. You’ve successfully recruited, from the B.C. high school ranks, this past season’s Double A and Triple A defensive players of the year. Spring...
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New pivots Bowcott, Casey shine; Birds show QB depth as Blue Gold game caps...
By Howard Tsumura The Province VANCOUVER — Two of the strongest arms to ever wear UBC colours were busy chatting with onlookers Saturday afternoon at Thunderbird Stadium. Canadian Olympic javelin...
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UBC FOOTBALL 2014: Talent abounds, but coach and QB steadfast in team-first...
VANCOUVER — In the transitory world of Canadian university athletics, one ruled by the omnipresent five-year window of playing eligibility, there is no mutual exclusivity between the quality of a...
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UBC football fires its head coach, as ex Vanier Cup-winning QB Shawn Olson is...
VANCOUVER — He was in the process of bringing the Shrum Bowl back from the grave, and it was something Shawn Olson spoke about with great pride as the 2014 Canada West football season was set to dawn...
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UBC frosh QB O’Connor meets lofty expectations, helps turn ‘Birds into a CIS...
VANCOUVER — When Michael O’Connor stepped onto the field at Thunderbird Stadium in early April, he was met by a Vancouver media contingent on par with a B.C. Lions’ practice prior to a playoff game....
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Pat Shoemay: Holy Cross’s senior QB on football, lacrosse and the good, old...
SURREY — As a fourth grader back in the fall of 2007, Patrick Shoemay says he “barely understood football, but knew that it was exciting.” And so when his older sister began taking him along to watch...
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