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LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette breaks down five keys for the London Knights to beat the Erie Otters in their second-round OHL playoff series

Brandon Prust has preached driving hard to the net from the moment he started coaching. Connor Clark followed that advice and it saved the London Nationals’ season. The 19-year-old tapped home a loose puck for the go-ahead goal with 2:25 left in regulation in a 4-2 Game 4 victory over St. Marys Wednesday at the […]

The London-Erie second-round playoff series will be full of explosive speed on both sides.

Plans to create a high school tackle football team in Kincardine are officially moving forward following a large donation from the local legion. “This funding gets us to our goal. We can now purchase — and are in the process of doing so — the remainder of the equipment we need for the players, training […]

After a long winter, London's municipal golf courses are teed up to open for the season.

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The Ontario Hockey League playoffs march on to the second round with a few would-be contenders eliminated and other expected top teams heating up.

If you were hoping for a London-Saginaw rematch, forget it. The first-place Knights will face No. 5 seed Erie in the second round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. The Otters dispatched the defending Memorial Cup champion Spirit in five games thanks to a series-clinching 6-3 victory Saturday at the Dow Event Center. The series […]

The London Nationals swept away defending Sutherland Cup champion Listowel in the first round of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs. Last year’s Cup finalists, however, are already proving a much more difficult test. The first-place St. Marys Lincolns jumped out to a four-goal lead in a Western Conference semifinal series-opening 4-2 victory over […]

The world’s best curlers will be sweeping into London for their season opener in the fall.

Golfer Luke Evans and curler Parker Doig were named Fanshawe College's athletes of the year at the Falcons' awards ceremony Thursday.

LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette breaks down five things that became clear during the London Knights' first-round sweep of the Owen Sound Attack.