For those at the forefront of Canada's first women's professional soccer league, the goalposts are shifting heading into the second season. Season one was all about launching the Northern Super League, said Diana Matheson, the league's founder and chie...

FIFA's resale site has four tickets on sale for the World Cup final for just under $2.3 million each. The $2,299,998.85 seats for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, are located behind a goal in the lower ...

MADRID - Canada's Leylah Fernandez kicked off her Madrid Open campaign Thursday with a straight-sets win over Julia Grabher. The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., seeded 24th, defeated the Austrian 6-2, 6-3 to improve to 3-0 all-time against the world No. ...

BROSSARD - Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said that his team is OK playing the role of the villain. The Montreal Canadiens are not taking the bait. Led by scrappy forward Brandon Hagel, the Lightning earned a physical 3-2 overtime win in Gam...

VANCOUVER - Even after being crowned champions, the Vancouver Rise believe there's room for growth. Expectations were high for the team heading into the Northern Super League's inaugural season last spring, said star midfielder Quinn. "We've always h...

TRENČÍN - Thomas Vandenberg scored 52 seconds into the game, and Canada cruised to a 6-0 win over Latvia on Thursday at the under-18 world hockey championship. Dima Zhilkin and Adam Valentini each had a goal and an assist for Canada, which outshot Latv...

KAMLOOPS - J.P. Hurlbert's rookie Western Hockey League season is officially one for the record books.The 17-year-old American has been named the WHL's rookie of the year for the 2025-26 season. Hurlbert is the third Blazer to win the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy and the first since Scottie Upshall in 2000-01. Ron Shudr...

ROME (AP) - Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming World Cup following a suggestion to that effect by a Trump administration official. Iran has not withdrawn from the Worl...

TORONTO - RJ Barrett has been waiting his whole life, all 25 years, to play post-season basketball in Toronto. The wait is finally over. Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont., will be in the starting lineup on Thursday night when the Raptors host the Clevela...

PARIS (AP) - Olympic Games events could return to Paris as soon as 2030. The Paris Entertainment Company, which operates the Adidas Arena and Accor Arena in the French capital, told The Associated Press on Thursday it has submitted a bid to host ice ho...

REGINA - Long snapper Jorgen Hus, the longest-serving member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, has retired after 10 seasons, the team announced Thursday. The 36-year-old Hus capped his career with a 25-17 win over the Montreal Alouettes in the 112th Gre...

OTTAWA - Tyler Kleven manoeuvred through a crowded locker room past cameras and microphones. The defenceman peeled off his Senators practice jersey as reporters hovered nearby following the team's morning skate. Kleven declared moments later he was rea...

LONDON - Canada will face Brazil in November with its Billie Jean King Cup standing on the line. The eighth-ranked Canadians, seeded second, dropped into the playoffs after a 3-1 loss to Kazakhstan in the qualifiers earlier this month. Bianca Andreescu...

New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel is seeking counseling and will not be with the team for Day 3 of the NFL Draft on Saturday, following the publication of photos of the coach and longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. "As I sai...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City. A total of 257 players will live out a dream and hear their name called over the course of the next three days, culminating a long...

EDMONTON - Oilers captain Connor McDavid continued to fight the puck, and Edmonton's vaunted power play had yet to strike to start the NHL playoffs. McDavid, the league's regular-season points leader, was held off the scoresheet a second straight game ...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors will try to claw back into their first-round NBA playoff series tonight when they host Game 3 at Scotiabank Arena, trailing 2-0 to Cleveland in the best-of-seven matchup. Toronto dropped the first two games on the road, in...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Wyatt Johnston scored on a power-play deflection at 12:10 of the second overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild early Thursday for a 2-1 lead in the first-round series. Matt Duchene t...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Trevor Zegras, Rasmus Ristolainen and Nick Seeler scored three goals on four shots in the second period in Philadelphia's first home playoff game in eight years, pushing the Flyers to the brink of a sweep of the Pittsburgh Penguins ...

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) - Brianne Jenner scored with 1:14 left in overtime on Wednesday night, Rebecca Leslie also scored a goal, and the Ottawa Charge beat the Boston Fleet 2-1 at the Tsongas Center. The Charge (8-8-1-12), who have won three games in a ro...

EDMONTON - The Anaheim Ducks are proving they have the ability to trade punches with the Edmonton Oilers - and land the decisive blow. The Ducks withstood a comeback attempt and defeated the Oilers 6-4 on Wednesday to pull even in their opening-round...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Trevor Zegras, Rasmus Ristolainen and Nick Seeler scored three goals on four shots in the second period in Philadelphia's first home playoff game in eight years, pushing the Flyers to the brink of a sweep of the Pittsburgh Penguins ...

TORONTO - Luka Gavran doesn't remember scoring a goal as a goalkeeper. There may have been a penalty kick in his past, but never a goal as dramatic as the one he netted on Wednesday.
 With the visiting Philadelphia Union in front after a goal in the...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Storm owner Matt Kolle sees prestige in joining the B.C. Hockey Conference (BCHC), a Hockey Canada-sanctioned Junior A circuit. "Three years ago, with the BCHL leaving [Hockey Canada], that's a big piece of British Columbia hockey leaving," Kolle said. "For us to elevate to this leve...

Mike Trout homered, Nolan Schanuel homered and hit a three-run double and Jose Soriano worked five shutout innings as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-3 on Wednesday to avoid a series sweep. Trout's eighth homer of the season was a 4...

EDMONTON - The NHL's top-ranked power play didn't convert two chances in Game 1 of the playoff series, a 4-3 Edmonton Oilers win over the Anaheim Ducks. Oilers captain Connor McDavid pointed the finger at himself. The Ducks didn't allow the Oilers easy...

OTTAWA - Drake Batherson and his teammates were in the exact same spot. Down 2-0 in a playoff series. Heading home. Crucial date on the schedule up next. The wide-eyed Ottawa Senators dipped their toes in the playoff pool for the first time in eight se...

TORONTO - Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic called the first two games of his team's first-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers a learning experience. If the Raptors want to overcome the 0-2 deficit and fight back in the best-o...