As Dalhousie and Halifax prepare to host the 2017 U SPORTS Final 8 Men’s Basketball Championship, I often reflect on my passion, history and attachment to this event. As a young basketball enthusiast, I vividly remember my dad taking me to the Metro Centre (now Scotiabank Centre) to watch the finest basketball in Canada. More importantly, I quickly developed my…
Being the younger sibling of a brother who played basketball, I idolized him like any young sibling would. So I decided to try out for my first rep basketball team in grade three, the Scarborough Blues. I made the team and instantly, I strived to become better than him, but he wasted no time teaching me that goal wouldn’t be…
Growing up it was every kid’s dream to play at the Metro Centre (now Scotiabank Centre). It was the biggest stage for kids like myself to see players from around the neighbourhood compete. I remember first watching STFX play when they had Jordon Croucher, Denny Oliver, Fred Perry; those were the stars in my eyes. The atmosphere at the time…
I remember it like it was yesterday, back in 2012 when the final buzzer went off and capped off my last year of high school. I played for the Fredericton Black Kats and we had just won the provincial championship. Just a kid from New Brunswick with big hoop dreams like everybody else, I knew I didn’t want that to…
Nearly 30 years have passed since my first game as a member of the Saint Mary’s University Huskies back in 1990. The Scotiabank Centre was called the Metro Centre, and the pro team in town was the Halifax Windjammers, not the Hurricanes. The CIS tournament was a mainstay in the Halifax sports scene. The thought of the Canadian University National…
Birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and CIS (now U SPORTS) Final 8 basketball. These were all celebrated as yearly traditions for my family growing up in Bedford, Nova Scotia. The timing was always perfect as my brothers Anthony, Nick and I would be on a break from our seasons with the Bedford Eagles due to March Break. My father tried to coordinate…
Will the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees be attending the Final 8 in Halifax this march? Video by Under the Bridge Digital
From the moment I took my first step off the plane I knew my life was about to change, but I had no clue what to expect. School was going to begin in about a weeks’ time and deep inside I knew it was going to be a big adjustment in my life. Coming from a prep school, it was…
The U SPORTS Men’s Final 8 Basketball Championship is returning to Halifax, March 9th-12th at the Scotiabank Centre in Downtown Halifax. Tickets are available here
I was born in Halifax, in 1979, just weeks before the Saint Mary’s Huskies defeated the Victoria Vikings in the National Championship Game in Calgary. Mickey Fox scored 37 points in the last game of his university career and was named Tournament MVP. Although his college career ended when I was a baby, growing up in Halifax, I often heard…