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Home playoff date within UBC’s reach, but No. 1 Dinos stand in way Saturday...
VANCOUVER — The Calgary Dinos won’t be playing their full complement of players on Saturday, yet from a UBC perspective, it would be foolish to believe that the nation’s No. 1-ranked team, vying for...
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Huge homecoming crowd sees its ‘Birds crushed by visiting, No. 2-ranked...
VANCOUVER — If only the stars could have aligned for its homecoming weekend. A sunny Saturday on the UBC campus, the largest Thunderbird Stadium crowd in over a decade packing the stands and spilling...
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Dinos’ Blake Nill will be named new head coach of UBC football at Tuesday...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds are set to name their new head football coach Tuesday, and it will be Calgary Dinos head coach Blake Nill. The Thunderbirds, who fired Shawn Olson following a 2-6...
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PODCAST 02.12.15 edition: Varsity Letters talks to UBC’s head football coach...
Varsity Letters returns strong this week with our largest lineup of guests ever. Joining us off the top, to chat about the biggest signing in UBC football history, is the program’s new head coach Blake...
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Penn State QB O’Connor leaves Happy Valley huddle, transfer marks start of...
VANCOUVER — Blake Nill is wasting no time in his attempt to turn the UBC Thunderbirds into a CIS football powerhouse. The recently-hired Nill made a blockbuster signing on Thursday, announcing that the...
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UBC welcomes its football future, blue-chip QB Michael O’Connor ready to don...
VANCOUVER — It’s the question that has been begging an answer ever since February when Michael O’Connor, ranked the U.S.’s No. 6 high school quarterback prospect in 2014 by ESPN, announced that he was...
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UBC Football: Q-&-A with coach Blake Nill on the eve of the ‘Birds clash with...
There are two more sleeps remaining until the start of the Blake Nill-era at UBC. With his first Point Grey fall camp behind him, Nill and his young charges left earlier this week for Laval and...
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Blake Nill-era opens in style for UBC, football ‘Birds get historic win at...
It’s been a very long time since UBC Thunderbirds football fans have dared to dream about things as big as winning conference championships and being in the hunt for the Vanier Cup. Who knows? That...
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Dinos flex muscle, Calgary simply too physical for UBC to handle in its...
CALGARY — Blake Nill built a powerhouse football program at the University of Calgary, and those Dinos, both deep and veteran-laden, showed Friday evening that their architect’s work has a lasting...
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HOMECOMING 2015: Family footsteps a T-Bird Stadium tradition for UBC’s Mitch...
VANCOUVER — On his first day on the job as the UBC Thunderbirds’ new defensive coordinator, James Colzie III was getting the grand tour of the program’s football facility from head coach Blake Nill...
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HOMECOMING 2015: UBC’s biggest football crowd in a quarter-century goes home...
When Blake Nill was hired this past winter as the new head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds football team, one of the first things he referenced in terms of a drawing card to leave his post at the...
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How about those ‘Birds? No. 10 UBC shows grit with shoot-out road win at No....
There was something pretty special about the atmosphere Saturday afternoon in Winnipeg. It was the No. 10 UBC Thunderbirds and the No. 7 and host Manitoba Bison clashing in a battle of two Canada West...
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UBC frosh QB O’Connor meets lofty expectations, helps turn ‘Birds into a CIS...
VANCOUVER — When Michael O’Connor stepped onto the field at Thunderbird Stadium in early April, he was met by a Vancouver media contingent on par with a B.C. Lions’ practice prior to a playoff game....
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UBC humbled, potential break-out game filled with breakdowns in loss to Huskies
VANCOUVER — This was surely to be the statement game of the UBC Thunderbirds’ 2015 Canada West football season, the game where all of the highs and the lows of the first month of play were supposed to...
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UBC football: ‘Birds find balance, offence showing its growth as blue-and-old...
VANCOUVER — Canada’s most unpredictable university football team is the kind of unit that can re-invent itself in the space of a weekend. And the latest chapter, which unfolded at Edmonton’s chilly...
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Taylor Loffler goes to top of the Canada West tackling charts in first season...
VANCOUVER — Taylor Loffler wears a tattoo on one shoulder that appears to be an illustration of stitches. And for those who know the adversity the former Kelowna Owls quarterback has gone through on...
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Historic night in Saskatoon: UBC moves to 5-2 after first road win vs....
The UBC Thunderbirds are a win away from clinching a Canada West opening-round home playoff date after an historic Friday in Saskatoon. Quarterback Michael O’Connor went 20-of-31 for 449 yards,...
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UBC coach Nill ready for growing pains as his young ‘Birds grow up in a hurry...
Blake Nill knows he’s coaching a young and rapidly-improving football team, but the veteran CIS skipper, who authored incredible success at previous stops at both St. Mary’s and Calgary, also knows...
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Terrell Davis: Tackle breaker to tackle maker, UBC’s linebacker creates new...
VANCOUVER — Terrell Davis admits that it was a conversation he didn’t think he’d be having when the UBC Thunderbirds hired Blake Nill, one of the most proven head coaches in all of Canadian...
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UBC-Manitoba football game notes: Status of Bisons’ pivot Deezar in question...
VANCOUVER — The stakes are huge on Saturday for both the CIS No. 9-ranked UBC Thunderbirds and the No. 8 Manitoba Bisons. Although the No. 1-ranked Calgary Dinos (7-0) have already clinched first place...
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