For Coach Gary Jeffries and the 2011 Laurier football team, this season has been a roller coaster ride of emotions. After dominating their season opener on the road against York with a decisive 46-7 win, they had lost their next three contests to Windsor, Queen’s and Western. The final two losses, although disappointing, are not overly surprising since both Queen’s and Western are two of the top ranked teams in the nation, with Western remaining undefeated through 6 weeks. Losing...

It’s no secret that the Laurier Brantford campus is small when compared to most other colleges or universities, but that does not mean that there is any shortage of athletes and talented students at this school. This abundance of talented athletes has been part of the reason for the introduction of extramural sports at Laurier Brantford. For those unsure of what exactly extramural sports are, Nolan Kreis, captain of the dodgeball extramural team, offers a description. “[They are] higher than...

The Laurier women's soccer team is on yet another roll this season with a perfect 10-0 record.

With only four games remaining in the regular season, this year has closely resembled the impressive success the girls experienced last year, going 11-1 during the regular season, winning the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship and coming one goal short of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) championship, losing 1-0 in extra time against Queen's.

The women’s team has been very successful in recent...

Now that students have eased their way back into another semester at Laurier Brantford, routines and schedules begins to take form over the course of each given week in a student’s life.

Whether your schedule includes sleeping in late, study sessions at the library or going out Thursday night, fitness and health can not always take a back seat. With that being said, go ahead and cheat once a week. Maybe have some pizza on Saturday night or McDonald's breakfast...

Golden Hawks will look to bounce back next week for homecoming

The Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team was hoping that their game against rival Western Mustangs this Saturday was going to be a fresh start.

After starting 1-2, including embarrassing losses to Queens and Windsor, the previously ranked Golden Hawks were looking to bounce back...

A packed Arnold Anderson Stadium wasn’t enough to propel the Laurier Golden Hawks baseball team over Guelph this past weekend as the Gryphons stole both games in a doubleheader.

A part of Laurier Brantford’s annual Homecoming festivities, hundreds of fans dressed in Laurier purple and gold to take in the contest. Father of Brantford, Walter Gretzky, was present and threw out the ceremonial first pitch, while Laurier president Max Blouw addressed the crowd.

The first game got off to a...

The 2011 Laurier Men's football team clearly isn't living up to their expectations. Not only are they not even ranked, but they have also started their season with a dismal 1-3 record. With the Laurier Waterloo homecoming fast approaching, we at The Sputnik have decided to countdown the best five seasons in Laurier Golden Hawk football history. This is in hopes of forgetting the poor start to this season, that could only get worse when the Ottawa Gee Gees come...

Laurier Brantford's upcoming partnership with YMCA

With the steady expansion of the Laurier Brantford campus comes the problem of a campus population outgrowing its infrastructure.

Whether it is the amount of residences, classrooms or student spaces, Laurier Brantford has been forced to increase production on new facilities to accommodate the increasing...

With week two coming to a close in the OUA football season, we look at the top five teams in the OUA football standings.

1. Guelph Gryphons

   In their home opener the Guelph Gryphons lost to the favoured Ottawa Gee Gee's 35-8. It wasn't until the third quarter that the Gryphons were able to put points on the board in front of a hometown crowd of over 6,500. However, following the loss, the Gryphons travelled to Waterloo to take on...

The start of the school year has begun and it seems as if classes are already dragging along. Luckily, with the start of classes comes another fall season of intramural sports beginning at Laurier Brantford.

This fall semester, the Athletic and Recreation department will be offering leagues for softball, outdoor soccer, competitive and recreation volleyball, flag football and dodgeball, all with the goal to entice students of all kinds. Also starting this fall is the hockey program, an intramural program...

With less than a month of Toronto Blue Jays baseball left to be played, another season is coming to a close. Although, to say that this season was a disappointment is difficult to argue.

Yes, the Jays will finish somewhere around the .500 mark, far out of the playoff hunt, but the future does seem bright for the young squad that general manager Alex Antholopous has assembled. Again, it is easy to remain skeptical considering how often Toronto sports teams...

Although called “starving students”, us university students do a pretty good job appearing well fed. We should really be giving thanks to the calorie gods for saving us all from malnutrition via the “freshman 15” phenomenon.

Those 15 extra pounds are just a precautionary measure to avoid possible undernourishment in the event that our financial constraints force us into involuntary fasting conditions. On the other hand, it might have something to do with idiotic nutritional choices some of us seem...

Mens Baseball: Head Coach: Scott Ballantyne

After reaching the OUA final in 2009/2010, the mens baseball team at Laurier failed to make the playoffs by one game last season. When asked the reason for the step backwards, coach Steve Ballantyne attributed the effort to injuries and defensive instability.

“We ran into a couple of injuries [last year]. We will be really focusing on defense, especially up the middle this season.”

Coach Ballantyne says, like every year, Western and Brock will...

While baseball may be America’s pastime, its history in the city of Brantford is a strong one. And perhaps no name is more synonymous with Brantford ball than that of the team’s semi-pro team, the Red Sox.

This year is a special one for the Red Sox. Not only because they are searching for their fourth consecutive league championship. Instead, the year will be historic because it marks the organization’s centennial anniversary.

Founded in 1911, the Red Sox are the...

Over 200 street hockey teams made their way to Brantford’s Lions Park in early June to fight for the crown as champion of the 4th annual Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament.

Each year, teams participate in over ten different divisions for men, women and kids of all ages.

Although not directly involved with the organization of the tournament, Laurier Brantford has many faculty and students participating in the tournament each year. Faculty members such as Greg Stewart and Gary Warrick...