Liquid Nutrition World Outdoor Hockey Championships this weekend

Or, at the request of his sponsors… the Liquid Nutrition World Outdoor so on and so forth…

Actually, it’s fun to joke about corporate sponsorship, but the fact that Gordon and his team have been able to not only build their event into a well-known success story, but actually have been able to sell naming rights to it shows that it is a big-time deal.

It all started three years ago when the brother-brother-sister team of Josh, Jeremiah and Alyssa Gordon got the ball rolling by choosing a beautiful lake location in Magog for their new tourney.

More out to have a good time and raise some dough for charity than to make a buck themselves, the Gordons – with Josh as the inspirational leader – got the local Magog hockey association on board as their primary charity, and the tournament was off and running.

Long-story-short, from there they’ve built it up to the point at which not only are they raising money to help kids play a game they love, but they’re also supporting none other than the Montreal Canadiens Alumni association, which benefits dozens of charities year-round in Montreal and all over Quebec.

This year’s tournament takes place this coming weekend at Magog’s Lake Memphremagog with games beginning on Friday night and the tournament wrapping up with the championship game on Sunday.

For more on the Liquid Nutrition World Outdoor Hockey Championships, visit www.wohc.ca.

With summer’s best sport just a few months away from hitting the field – and I am definitely talking baseball here – NDG Baseball’s winter clinics are in full swing.

The area’s best amateur sports association is holding weekly pitching clinics on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Confederation sports complex on Côte St. Luc Road; as well as Sunday morning overall sessions at the same facility and Royal Vale High School on Somerled Avenue.

For more on the clinics, please visit www.ndgbaseball.org.

for this summer has also kicked off – visit www.ndgbaseball.org to sign up now.

With the move to a full-time web-only Monitor, I’ve started getting better and more feedback than in my previous six-years-and-change writing this column.

That’s exciting, but I want you all to know that your feedback is not just wanted but needed. We’re a community paper/site/issue/somethingorother and we want to represent the community as best as we can.

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