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Taylor Pyatt is calling it a career. The Thunder Bay former NHLer, who spent the past season playing in Switzerland and was a member of Canada’s Spengler Cup squad, confirmed on Monday he’s stepping away from the game.

It wasn’t Yuji Suzuki’s night. The Canadian right-hander was torched for seven runs in three-plus innings of work on Sunday as the Thunder Bay Border Cats were swept 7-2 on the road by the first-half champion Willmar Stingers.

The Thunder Bay Border Cats can get all the good pitching they want. If they don’t get some timely hitting, and soon, they’re going to struggle to win ballgames as they head toward the Northwoods League stretch.

After three Stanley Cup wins in the Windy City, Patrick Sharp's hockey career will continue deep in the heart of Texas.

Robert Bortuzzo says it’s a shock for any player to learn they’ve been traded. But in his case, once the original shock wore off, he realized he’d landed in a pretty good situation with the St. Louis Blues.

Jordan Staal says it’s unlikely he’d be where he is today had the Thunder Bay Kings program not been in place when he and his hockey-playing siblings were growing up.

If you can’t hit the baseball, it’s not easy to score runs.

Jylisa Williams is taking her talents overseas. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball player of the year has inked a one-year deal to play with Oberhausen in the German Dament Basketball Bundesliga.

Former Lakehead men’s basketball coach Scott Morrison has landed himself a pretty decent gig this summer.

The Thunder Bay Border Cats clawed back from two runs down in the ninth, but couldn’t hang on.