Category Archives: Sports
Manitoba sports organizations would track under-represented groups under new bill
WINNIPEG - Provincial amateur sports organizations in Manitoba may soon be required to track demographics and show efforts to make their sport more inclusive. A bill now before the legislature would r...
Mar 16, 2026
Wittal of Kamloops Classic Swimming wins nine medals at provincials, sets eight club records
KAMLOOPS - Changes are coming to the Kamloops Classic Swimming wall of records at club headquarters. Mia Wittal set eight club marks and won nine medals - six gold, two silver and one bronze - at the ...
Mar 16, 2026 Mia Wittal (middle). (Image Credit: Quinn Meredith / Kamloops Classic Swimming)
Kamloops goaltender Woodland gets PWHL debut 'tease' experience in Vancouver
KAMLOOPS - Kendra Woodland hopes to one day play a Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) game in Vancouver in front of a busload of friends and family from Kamloops. The undrafted Ottawa Charge ro...
Mar 16, 2026 Kendra Woodland (Image Credit: Brennen Suni / Ottawa Charge)
Canada Soccer unveils new World Cup jerseys, gets funding for youth initiatives
TORONTO - When a young soccer player asked Jonathan Osorio if Canada was going to win the men's World Cup, his answer was direct. "Yes," said Osorio during a question-and-answer period Monday at a chi...
Mar 16, 2026 Canadian soccer athlete Richie Laryea wears the newly unveiled team Canada’s 2026 World Cup jersey as he greats young fans at an event unveiling the uniforms in Toronto, on Monday, March 16, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan
A heat wave with triple-digit temps is altering the MLB Cactus League schedule
PHOENIX (AP) - Bringing the heat in spring training is supposed to be about hard-throwing pitchers, not triple-digit temperatures like those that will impact Major League Baseball spring training game...
Mar 16, 2026
Lions say Canadian Football Hall of Famer Tom Brown has died at age 89
VANCOUVER - Canadian Football Hall of Famer Tom Brown, a three-time CFL all-star who won a Grey Cup with the B.C. Lions in 1964, has died, the team said Monday. He was 89. A two-time winner of the CFL...
Mar 16, 2026
B.C. heli-ski company says snowboarder died in fall in a tree well
GOLDEN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A British Columbia helicopter-ski company says that a snowboarder has died in the Kootenay region after falling in to a tree well. Great Canadian Heli-Skiing, based ...
Mar 16, 2026
Springer homers as Blue Jays beat Marlins 5-4 in Grapefruit League
JUPITER - George Springer hit a leadoff home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins 5-4 on Monday in a six-inning Grapefruit League game at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. Springer also sco...
Mar 16, 2026
Cost of rebuilding Alberta town's only ice rinks after explosion in the millions
EDMONTON - A hockey-loving town in southern Alberta that lost its only two ice rinks in a Zamboni explosion says it will cost millions to rebuild. Derrin Thibault, Taber's chief administrative officer...
Mar 16, 2026
Canadian angler Jeff Gustafson using Bassmaster Classic absence as motivation
Jeff Gustafson returned to his office Monday. The Kenora, Ont., angler was back in his Lund 2075 Pro-V bass boat on Alabama's Lake Guntersville for some fun fishing in not-so-fun conditions - 3 C temp...
Mar 16, 2026
