The air at the High River rec centre was thick with whistles and fists last Friday.
A whopping five game misconducts and another nine 10 minute misconducts were doled out in the Okotoks Bisons’ 2-1 win over the High River Flyers in Heritage Junior B Hockey League action in High River.
Jay McFarlane, Bisons coach and general manager, said he was disappointed the team came out flat during the first 40 minutes.
“We managed to maintain a 2-0 lead going into the third but I’d say we got outworked for sure by High …

The good times just keep rolling for the Okotoks Bisons.
The Bisons won their fifth-straight game when they downed the Stettler Lightning 5-2 Sunday at the Murray Arena to give Okotoks a stranglehold on first-place in the South Division of the Heritage Junior B Hockey League.
The Bisons have a 13-0-1-1 record. Their 28 points puts them 10 points ahead of the second-place Coaldale Copperheads who have 18 points.
Okotoks has yet to lose in regulation time. Their only blemish this year was a 5-4 overtime loss to the Three Hills Thrashers and …

I admit I was extremely relieved I did not have to get up on the bar and sing “Ye Men of Calgary” after Saturday’s Canadian Football League game.
You see I had a bet with the owner and manager of the Bull Pen Pub that if my beloved Saskatchewan Roughriders lost to Calgary I would serenade the bar with the Stampeder fight song. However, if the Stampeders lost — which they did, 30-14 — Twila and Krista would have to belt out their best rendition of “Green is the Colour.” Before the …

There are some stories that just need some major league attention.
Jim ‘Bearcat” Murray going into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a trainer just happens to be one of them.
So I had to go beyond the call of duty and rather than one interview with Bearcat Murray, I decided to get hold off one of his former players that he used to mend — John Davidson, president of hockey operations for the  St. Louis Blues, former goalie with the New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues and a member of …

Change is on the horizon for the way the arts are taught in Alberta schools and there may be a way to make it work.
Most arts teachers already feel music, drama and visual art are undervalued in the  school system and with changes to the curriculum coming, teachers and parents are on edge.
It is difficult to tell whether the Alberta Education’s proposed arts curriculum framework will make the situation better or worse. According to the ministry, the goal is to increase students’ opportunities to learn about the arts.
However, teachers, students …