Category Archives: Sports
TSN, Curling Canada agree to eight-year extension on broadcast rights contract
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Curling Canada and TSN have extended their broadcast rights contract for another eight years. The agreement kicks in for the 2020-21 season through to 2027-28. The announcement was ...
Feb 22, 2020
Canada wins opener against El Salvador at CONCACAF U-20 Championship
SAN CRISTOBAL, Dominican Republic - Second-half goals by captain Tanya Boychuk and Kaila Novak lifted Canada to a 2-0 win over El Salvador in its opening match Saturday at the CONCACAF Women...
Feb 22, 2020
Ontario's Homan advances to Hearts semifinal with 9-5 win over Northern Ontario.
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Ontario's Rachel Homan advanced to the semifinal of the Canadian women's curling championship with a 9-5 win over Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville on Saturday. Homan&n...
Feb 22, 2020
Laughton scores twice, leads streaking Flyers over Jets 4-2
PHILADELPHIA - Scott Laughton scored two goals Saturday to lead the streaking Philadelphia Flyers to an 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets. Sean Couturier and Tyler Pitlick also scored and Justin Brau...
Feb 22, 2020
Capitals' Alex Ovechkin becomes 8th player with 700 goals
NEWARK, N.J. - Alex Ovechkin has become the eighth player in NHL history to score 700 goals. The Washington Capitals star reached the milestone 4:50 into the third period against the New Jersey Devils...
Feb 22, 2020
Canada's Kingsbury finishes first in moguls for 62nd World Cup victory
TAZAWAKO, Japan - Canada's Mikael Kingsbury earned his 62nd World Cup victory Saturday, winning the gold medal in the men's moguls event. Kingsbury, the reigning Olympic moguls champion from Deux Mont...
Feb 22, 2020
2010 leader John Furlong urges Vancouver to bid for 2030 Winter Games
While Vancouver celebrates the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the man who co-led the bid and headed the organizing committee wants the city to do...
Feb 22, 2020
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime reaches Open 13 men's tennis final
MARSEILLE, France - Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the final at the Open 13 men's tennis tournament. The 19-year-old from Montreal, the tournament's seventh seed, advanced with a 7...
Feb 22, 2020
Einarson, Homan, Jones clinch playoff spots in Tournament of Hearts
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Manitoba, Ontario and the Jennifer Jones wild-card team secured playoff berths at the Canadian women's curling championship Thursday. Manitoba's Kerri Einarson, Ontario's Rachel Hom...
Feb 22, 2020
A champion, again: Humphries wins 3rd women's bobsled title
Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. is a bobsled champion again, winning her third world title Saturday to put an emphatic cap on her comeback season. Humphries teamed with Lauren Gibbs to finish four runs ...
Feb 22, 2020
