The best quips, quotes and anecdotes from January through June, 2025 (Part 1).

It’s been a great year for Canadians on the world’s athletic stages. As 2025 winds down, it’s time for the year-end awards in the top three categories — male and female athlete and top team.

Fans of the Kindersley Klippers were invited to bring new stuffed animals and toss them onto the ice after the Klippers scored their first goal Friday, Dec. 5, at Inter Pipeline Arena.

Ken Murphy of Kerrobert is a devoted sports fan who recently received his latest prize: a Saskatchewan Roughriders 2025 Grey Cup Champions T-shirt.

In hockey-mad Canada, fans spend their time watching hockey, thinking about hockey, talking about hockey and mentally planning Canada’s roster for the 2026 Olympic Games in Italy.

Let’s start by looking at the Sask West standings. In first is the Kindersley Klippers with a 5-1 record, followed by the Wilkie Outlaws with a 4-0 record. In third is the Edam 3 Stars…

The Kindersley Composite School senior boys’ basketball team hosted its annual tournament over the weekend, with eight teams competing, including two local squads.

The Kindersley Klippers 9th Annual Sledge Hockey Tournament was held at the West Central Events Centre this past weekend. Eight Junior and Intermediate teams took part.

The big prize in next summer’s National Hockey League amateur draft is expected to be Gavin McKenna, the pride of Whitehorse, Yukon, a former Medicine Hat Tiger superstar…

Kindersley Klippers (4-0), Wilkie Outlaws (3-0) and the Edam 3 Stars (2-0) occupy the top three slots. The Macklin Mohawks sit in fourth with a 1-2 record, followed by Biggar Nationals at 1-5…

It was a proud moment when Kindersley’s Dakota Buttar Invitational was named 2025 Indoor Event of the Year. The PBR and its riders recognized Dakota’s passion, leadership…

Now, just like the rabid fan base that lives and dies with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Canadian Football League fans across the land are green — with envy.

Simeon Bakanec, from the Kerrobert-Kindersley area, has qualified for the national figure skating competition, Skate Canada Trophy, scheduled for February 2026 in Dartmouth, N.S.

Data about cigarettes causing cancer eventually resulted in tobacco advertisements being banned from print and electronic media, but will the data about lives being ruined…

If this year's World Series could be narrowed down to a simple ‘Who killed the Toronto Blue Jays?’, let’s get right to the point and play a sports version of Clue.

This year, we’ll be covering both the Sask. West Hockey League and the Crossroads Hockey League. To honour both leagues and the history of most of these teams…

LEADER – Kyra Strutt, from Leader, was awarded a $500 Ed Mann Bursary at Softball Saskatchewan’s annual awards luncheon in Regina on October 25.

Curling in Canada through the years has been dominated by players from Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan, but No. 1 on the all-time list of Canadian greats is from St. John’s, NL.

Team Hack Attack, consisting of Rachel Cocks, Rene Butt, Brody Ausmus and Colden Dale, was selected to represent the Leader Curling Club at the inaugural Junior Grand Slam of Curling…

In 1923, the first curling rink was built in Eston, featuring two sheets of curling ice. It was adjacent to an open-air skating rink situated on 3rd Avenue East.