Category Archives: Sports

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets have signed first-round pick Viggo Bjorck to a three-year, entry-level contract, the NHL team announced Monday. The contract has average annual value of US$1.075 million. ...

TORONTO - Thoroughbred horse-racing purses will be increasing this season. Woodbine Entertainment, the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association of Ontario and Ontario Racing announced Monday p...

HANGZHOU - Canada's women remained unbeaten at the world sitting volleyball championships with a 3-0 victory over Japan (25-17, 25-20, 25-16) on Monday. Captain Heidi Peters led Canada (3-0) with 29 p...

SURREY - Dennis McKnight wasn't planning to be on the CFL sidelines this season. The veteran coach retired last year after overseeing special teams for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats through the 2024 and 202...

MONTREAL - When reflecting on the 1976 Montreal Games, it's hard not to think of the controversies surrounding the Olympic Stadium, whose problem-plagued construction and ballooning costs earned it th...

EDMONTON - Alberta's regulated iGaming system is now live, starting the race for private sports betting companies and online casinos to stake their shares in the provincial gambling market. It makes A...

REGINA - According to head coach Corey Mace, the football gods smiled upon the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Sunday. The Riders, despite entering the game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with a 3-1 reco...

CALGARY - Rodeo lineage was prominent in the Calgary Stampede final Sunday as a son and a nephew of previous winners stood in the winner's circle and collected lucrative cheques. Noah Lee of Mineral W...

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) - Tom Kim played bogey-free during a tight race to the finish Sunday and closed with a 6-under 64 for a two-shot victory in the Scottish Open, his first PGA Tour title sin...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Steven Fisk outlasted Canadian Taylor Pendrith in the ISCO Championship on Sunday for his second PGA Tour title, two-putting for par on the third hole of a playoff. Fisk closed ...