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What happened: The Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Jan. 7 announced that a global search for a new CEO netted them former Italian Serie A club AS Roma executive Mark Pannes.

Pinning up a new calendar, the New West Hyacks senior girls basketball team hopes the good results and lessons they experienced in the last weeks of 2019 spill over. With Burnaby-New West league action picking up Wednesday (Jan.

Among the many New Westminster sports highlights, the accomplishments of a handful of teenagers and one nonagenarian set the trend in 2019...

In the last-ever tournament in the grand old gym, the New Westminster Hyacks made it count. The senior boys basketball team ran the table, winning three times to capture the Bob Gair Classic tourney title in New West Secondary’s Pearson gym.

There will be plenty of hockey action right here at home this holiday week, as the annual Herb House Memorial Hockey tournament hits the New West ice.

The Royal City Curling Club’s teams Joanisse and Dennis are bound for Cranbrook to compete in the B.C. Men’s championships, Jan. 28 to Feb. 2. They’ll be joining Team Wenzek, which advanced thanks to its finish on the B.C. Curling Tour circuit.

New names, same games. Both the Canadian Lacrosse Association and Canada Hockey are changing age division names to meet modern standards and more inclusive classifications.

The training and the straining don’t always bring gold, but when they do it’s pretty sweet.

It was a long but good day for the New Westminster senior girls Hyacks on Wednesday. The squad launched its Bob Gair Classic at the Massey Gym with a pair of wins, advancing to the tourney final on Friday (1 p.m., Massey Gym).

You’ve got to believe. It’s the time of year where faith and best wishes are high on the list of things to be open to, and for the New Westminster Hyacks senior boys basketball team, that goes double.