Category Archives: Sports
Players counter with 70-game season, 10 more than MLB
NEW YORK - Baseball players proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, leaving them and management 10 games and about $275 million apart on plans to start the coronavirus-delayed season. As ...
Jun 18, 2020
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says he's taken 20 per cent pay cut
TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says he has taken a 20 per cent pay cut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambrosie came under heavy fire earlier this week for unilaterally imposing a 20 per cent...
Jun 18, 2020
Montreal Impact get green light to resume full team workouts at training centre
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have been approved to resume full team workouts at their training centre. The MLS team got the green light from provincial health authorities and the league. The Im...
Jun 18, 2020
Trial of Diacks exposes dark backdrop of track golden era
PARIS - As Usain Bolt set the world ablaze, making athletics the hottest ticket at the Olympic Games, the sport was also being eaten from within. That grim picture has emerged from a corruption trial ...
Jun 18, 2020
Spanish league says audiences up by nearly 50% after break
MADRID - International viewership for Spanish soccer games increased by nearly 50% after they returned from the break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the league said Thursday. Figures for the firs...
Jun 18, 2020
Eng forced off Canadian wheelchair basketball team by international changes
OTTAWA - A realigning of standards on who can compete in Paralympic wheelchair basketball has forced Canadian veteran David Eng off the national team. Canada's flagbearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympic...
Jun 18, 2020
No call to buck, rodeo bulls and broncs idled by COVID-19 pandemic
CALGARY - Get Smart and Stevie Knicks are lounging in the penthouse pasture. Blackstone After Party is having sex. Rodeo announcers constantly refer to bucking stock as athletes and poi...
Jun 18, 2020
Raptors Uprising rolls over Blazers, Lakers in NBA 2K League Tipoff Tournament
TORONTO - Raptors Uprising GC, unbeaten in regular-season play, kept rolling Wednesday by thumping Blazer5 Gaming and Lakers Gaming in the NBA 2K League's Tipoff esports tournament. Toronto joins seve...
Jun 17, 2020
Canada's Taylor Pendrith feels safe with Korn Ferry Tour protocols
Taylor Pendrith isn't used to his weekly nasal swabbing just yet, but he's getting there. Pendrith and his peers on the Korn Ferry Tour get tested for COVID-19 at the start of every week as part of th...
Jun 17, 2020
Canadian star Andreescu tweets in support of summer U.S Open despite pandemic
TORONTO - Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu says she supports the United States Tennis Association's decision to hold this year's U.S. Open this summer despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic....
Jun 17, 2020
