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Mack, Blevins to mark milestones in Scottish rugby test but no Ardron for Canada
Phil Mack and Nick Blevins will mark a milestone Saturday, earning their 50th caps when Canada hosts Scotland in an international rugby test match at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium. But coach K...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018
Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. placed on seven-day disabled list
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Toronto Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was placed on the seven-day disabled list Thursday. The double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats made the move a day after Guerrero Jr. to...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018

Newman hoping her pole vault season's not over after suffering knee injury
TORONTO - Alysha Newman went to the Prefontaine Classic two weeks ago in Eugene, Ore., intent on increasing her Canadian pole vault record again. Instead, she wound up with a serious knee injury that ...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018
CSA official has one more sales stop before heading to Moscow for World Cup vote
Peter Montopoli, Canada’s point man on the so-called unified bid to host the 2026 World Cup, has one more stop to make before flying to Moscow on Saturday for next week’s FIFA Congress. He...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018

Canada's Flanagan caps college career by running race of his life
They set the skyhigh target over coffee on Wednesday morning. Hours before Canada’s Ben Flanagan stepped up to the start line at historic Hayward Field for the race of his life, he and coach Kev...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018

Alberta eyes pub time changes so fans can gather, hoist a few during World Cup
EDMONTON - Alberta is considering whether to change its bar hours so soccer fans can gather in the early mornings to watch the World Cup and hoist a few. Finance Minister Joe Ceci says he will have th...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018
Gilles Villeneuve's 1978 winning car to get show drive by son at Canada GP
MONTREAL - It will be an special moment for Joann Villeneuve when her son Jacques leads out the field in her late husband’s Ferrari for the parade lap at the Canadian Grand Prix. It was 40 years...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018

Schmitt returns to Canadian men's volleyball team for Nations League
Gavin Schmitt doesn’t want his return to the Canadian men’s volleyball team to mess with its success. The six-foot-10 outside hitter from Saskatoon, whose crushing kills and laser jump ser...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018
Canadian men's short-track speedskating coach Campbell takes job in China
The Canadian men’s short-track speedskating team has lost its head coach. Derrick Campbell, who has been at the helm of one of Canada’s more successful winter sports programs since 2006, s...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018
Canada's Brown breaks 20 seconds in 200 metres at Oslo Diamond League
It was a goal Aaron Brown had been doggedly chasing for the past two years. The Canadian sprinter raced to a time of 19.98 seconds to finish second in the Bislett Games Diamond League meet in Oslo on ...
Kayla Derkach Jun 07, 2018

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