The Vancouver Canucks added a touch of youth to their roster on Friday by acquiring right-winger Steve Bernier in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres. CBC.ca

National Hockey League clubs doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts in the first days of free-agent signing. CBC.ca

The B.C. Lions suffered a rare season-opening loss and it won't get any easier for their 2008 home debut on Friday, against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. CBC.ca

More than 300,000 people - and about the same number of cowboy hats - lined the streets of Calgary to catch the Stampede parade on Friday. CBC.ca

Russian hockey club Avangard Omsk has signed Jaromir Jagr for the upcoming season, just one day after the New York Rangers said they were moving ahead without the superstar. CBC.ca

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will renew their rivalry in a third straight Wimbledon final after winning their respective semifinal matches in straight sets. CBC.ca

When the Penticton Valley First Vees hit the ice for the 08-09 season, they will be missing a key component from last years winning team.

The Vees got some disappointing news as high-scoring centre, Denver Manderson, informed the Vees late Wednesday he would be returning
to the Ontario Hockey League‘s Kitchener Rangers next season.

Manderson was a heart and soul guy last season in Penticton, and his
offensive spark will certainly be missed.

Dan Boyle has agreed to waive his no-trade clause, paving the way for the defencemen to be shipped to the San Jose Sharks. CBC.ca

A.J. Burnett will go for his third consecutive win Friday night when he heads to the mound in the Toronto Blue Jays' series opener against the Angels in Los Angeles. CBC.ca

World-record holder Usain Bolt will meet top rival Asafa Powell in the 100 metres at the DN Galan meet in Stockholm on July 22, just 17 days before the start of the Beijing Olympics. CBC.ca

Almost two years after it was destroyed by fire, the Okanagan Sun have their clubhouse back.

Early in the morning of September 30, 2006, two young teens set a fire in a storage shed under the steps leading to the Sun clubhouse in the Apple Bowl.

Fire and smoke damage destroyed the clubhouse. Team photos, trophies and a wall of signatures were also lost.

Sun President, Les Weiss, gave members of the media a tour of the nearly completed "Aguirre House" Thursday.

"It's been a long two years. I said coming back from Nanaimo after we lost in the B.C. Championships two seasons ago, the first thing we needed to do was regroup and get this facility back up and built," says Weiss.

"It too a while to happen but now it's done."

Weiss says the renovations, including rebuilding the clubhouse adding a new training room and other exterior improvements cost in the neighbourhood of $500,000.

Over the past season and a half, the Sun have had to make do with a crammed downstairs storage room for a dressing room.

"My hats off to the players. They never complained once. They just carried about their business. I was really impressed with how the players handled themselves last season under the circumstances."

The old clubhouse, which the Sun called home since 1981, was built with donated materials and, as Weiss terms it, "sweat equity."

The new facility is much more open and spacious, but Weiss says there are some things that will never be replaced.

"The one thing that is never replaceable is the players whose names were on the walls that are no longer with us. Over 28 years there are a lot of those guys that aren't here anymore. Pictures can be replaced, but the one thing that can't be is members of the organization that are gone."

The August 23rd game at the Apple Bowl against Victoria is the clubs homecoming game. Members of the 1988 National Championship team will be honoured that weekend, and Weiss says players will have a chance to re-sign the wall and ceiling at that point.

Former offensive lineman, Reed Alexander, got the jump on the rest of the players, leaving his signature on the ceiling above one of the lockers.

Veteran players selected their lockers Thursday night.

The Sun will kick off training camp Monday, July 7.

Weiss expects between 85 and 90 players to take part.

They open up the regular season against the Trojans in Vancouver July 26 before the home opener August 2 against Kamloops.

Toronto's Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia will go for their first Grand Slam title after winning their Wimbledon semifinal on Friday. CBC.ca

Montreal Alouettes slotback Ben Cahoon is poised to make his season debut Friday against the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Molson Stadium (7 p.m. ET) and it could be a record-breaking night. CBC.ca

In a stunning upset at the U.S. Olympic trials Thursday, LaShawn Merritt beat the reigning Olympic and world 400-metre champion, Jeremy Wariner, to seal his place at the Beijing Games in August. CBC.ca

Perdita Felicien insists her left foot is completely healed, but there's still some doubt whether she'll be ready to compete at the Beijing Games. CBC.ca

Ricky Ray hit Jason Tucker for a 36-yard circus catch of a touchdown with less than a minute to go, giving the Edmonton Eskimos a 34-31 victory over the visiting Calgary Stampeders in a wild CFL contest on Thursday night. CBC.ca

If the New York Rangers' chances to re-sign star winger Jaromir Jagr looked slim this off-season, general manager Glen Sather may have ended all hope Thursday. CBC.ca

Sisters Venus and Serena Williams will meet in a Grand Slam final for the seventh time after they both won in straight sets at the Wimbledon semifinals on Thursday. CBC.ca