Autumn brings mixed emotions. The soothing heat of the summer is over and the Devil’s dusting is on the horizon. Sure, the temperatures are colder, but don’t be a pussy. Layer up. On the other hand, fall has a sweet scent to it; a comfortable essence that draws me outside. I love to walk in the autumn wind, present with the moment. One has to be aware of the “now” up here in Canada. If you’re not, hypothermia sets in within minutes. Fall is a sensual season of leaves skittering along curbs and sidewalks, the bass-line whistle of the wind swirling through bare tree branches. Others have already given up on the year. They begin their annual hibernation; an evening ritual that includes donning a housecoat at the back door after work, scarfing down a bowl of mac & cheese, then going numb in front of the television for a five hour shift. Repeat until the weekend when the five-hour shift becomes an 18 hour marathon of sports, reality TV and government endorsed programming. Not me. ...

I know. I am not naive. If you say I am – again – I’m calling my septuagenarian mother. She’ll have words. I know this is not the way to get your content seen by eyeballs attached to human brains. I suspect this post will get less views than a picture of a caterpillar on a turd, but frankly, I don’t give a turd for that image. This is where I am. The  Canadian Football League -leading  Saskatchewan Roughriders  face the  British Columbia Lions  Nov. 8, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. local time. The Riders semi-strolled through this year’s regular season, collecting a 12-6 record. Two of those victories came against the Lions, with BC – which finished second at 11-7 – earning one of the three seasonal contests. The Lions won six of their last seven heading into the  Western Division semi-final  versus the  Calgary Stampeders . The game is expected to be a battle of a stiff, ball-chasing, sack-bagging  Rider defence  against a running game led by Lion ...

  As Catrina Allen paced herself through the final round of FPO division play at the Las Vegas Challenge on Sunday, Calvin Heimburg and Kevin Jones took the MPO division to the tournament’s final hole at Wildhorse DGC in Henderson, NV. Jones came into the final round of the tournament with a two stroke advantage over Anthony Barela. While the former played solid golf through the front to hold that differential on the field most of the round, the latter struggled through the back nine of the final 18. Barela could not find the disc for swirling winds that encompassed the region the previous few days as well. He ultimately slid to eighth at minus-25. But Calvin Heimburg snuck up five spots on Saturday to challenge Jones for the championship on Hole 16 of Round 4. After both parring the 17th, Heimburg smoked his drive over the water on the par 4 18th to just hold in-bounds by inches, Jones’s effort was low and forced down by the wind. He ended up wet and out-of-bounds. After a clean a...

  Melville’s Dan Coomber makes a putt during the opening of Melville’s Frozen Chains Putting League play on Jan. 8 in Melville, Sask. A total of 17 players participated, with a further 33 playing in Vernon, B.C. as part of the OKDS Frozen Chains League circuit. Balcarres, Sask.’s Gage McKay Broke through to lead Week 1 of the inaugural Frozen Chains Putting League presented by OKDS on Jan. 8. A total of 17 players participated in the opening day of the putting league season, the first ever to be held in Melville. McKay nailed 60 per cent of his putts for 123 points. His lead was toppled by Vernon’s Donnie Siddall who sits with 177 points and a 49% hit-rate after two weeks of play there. McKay slid to fifth in the infancy of the national rankings, falling behind Siddall (152/50%), Jonny Munke (149/39%), Jordan Mazereeuw (145/44%), James Ware (144/37%) and Stephen Porcaro (125/41%), all from Vernon, British Columbia. The OKDS (Okanagan Disc Supply) Frozen Chains Putting League was es...

The beautifully terrifying tunnels of Rocanville Trail DGC.   Disc golfers of all levels will, at some point, be humbled by the challenge presented by the Rocanville Trail Disc Golf Course's 18-hole track. But once you get on it, you will be back to defeat it. Tight lines through narrow fairways lined with thick bush will bring your game to its knees. It's 18-holes of delicate driving and finesse approaches. Your short-game will improve here. Rocanville Trail is located about two kilometres south of Rocanville, Sask. along Range Road 1314 (Webster Cemetery Road). The course runs through a substantial part of the Rocanville Cross Country Ski Club's system of ski trails. Disc golf arrived at the facility in 2013 with the help of the Parkland Association of Disc Golf out of Yorkton, Sask. A few adjustments were made to the course through the following four years under the guidance of course director Chris Istace. One advancement - set to arrive in 2023 - is an alternate, par-...

Swift Current's Riverside Park Disc Golf Course hosted its 2022 MVP Space Race on  Nov. 12 with a full field of competitors from across Saskatchewan. (Photo: IG @ironwolf4579) Swift Current athlete Isaac Ritskes punched a minus-15 in early-winter conditions to win the 2022 MVP Space Race at Riverside Park Disc Golf Course on Nov. 12. Ritskes was a member of a packed field of 36 hardy competitors attending the satellite event. Mild conditions leading up to the event suggested players would get one last chance at a snowless 2022 tournament. Instead, about four inches of snow fell during the lead-up week, forcing players to reach into their bag of tricks for winter golf earlier than expected. "It surpassed my expectations, definitely," said Swift Current Space Race tournament director (TD) Patty Putts . "There was a lot of commitment to come play from the out-of-towners and within our small community despite the time of year, the weather." Ritskes charged to the f...

WBDGCU title holders Gage and Ian McKay with Tournament Director Chris Istace (centre) For the first time tournament history, the World Bush Disc Golf Championships of the Universe (WBDGCU) has repeat title-holders after a tight shoot-out at Rocanville Trail Disc Golf Course on Oct. 1. Two years after claiming the WBDGCU belts, the father-son doubles team of Ian and Gage McKay from Peepeekisis First Nation hoisted the leather and brass trophies again, posting the top score of minus-20 through two 18-hole rounds of golf. The McKays sat in a three-way tie for first place at minus-eight after Round One with Ryan Tardif/Andrew Savage and Evan Drader/Dan Fortier. The ultimate champs had more to say in Round Two, however, blasting a minus-12 and taking the championship by two strokes over Drader and Fortier (-8, -10/-18). Rocanville Trail representatives Josh and Chris Istace rounded out the podium in third place at minus-14 after defeating Tardif/Savage on a scorecard countback. A birdie on...

Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in North America. A pair of facilities in at the Moosomin Regional Park and at the Rocanville Cross-Country Ski Club are bringing this simple, fun, relaxing activity to this area. (Above picture taken at the Rocanville Cross-Country Ski Club facility) Are you tired of spending hundreds - if not thousands - of dollars on equipment and membership fees to play the game of golf? Are you frustrated with the amount of time it consumes; the packed courses; the less-than-courteous actions of some players; the lack of facility availability? With the establishment of one course at the Rocanville Cross-Country Ski Club just south of Rocanville, and the scheduled development of another this spring at the Moosomin Regional Park (MRP), disc golf will be quickly catching the imagination of residents in the area. Both facilities have been designed by members of the Parkland Association of Disc Golf , of which I am a foun...