Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - Jim Lawson is using a very familiar model as he builds the $1-million Queen’s Plate. Woodbine Entertainment Group’s chief executive officer also serves as chairman of the CFLR...

VOLGOGRAD, Russia - Nice guys don’t necessarily finish last at the World Cup. Fair play, a newly implemented tiebreaker in the group stage of the world’s biggest soccer tournament, was put...

SAMARA, Russia - The “fair play” tiebreaker doesn’t seem all that fair to Senegal. The last African team standing at the World Cup lost to Colombia 1-0 Thursday, leaving it even with...

WASHINGTON - Wayne Rooney is coming to Major League Soccer with D.C. United, the latest star to take his talents across the pond to the United States. Rooney follows the lead of Swede Zlatan Ibrahimov...

Former national team coach Stephen Hart is back in the frontline of Canadian soccer. The 58-year-old Hart has been named head coach and general manager of HFX Wanderers FC, Halifax’s entry in th...

TORONTO - The so-called mind gym is one of the first places new draft picks go at the Toronto Blue Jays’ training facility in Dunedin, Fla. It’s a group workshop where they learn the impor...

OAKVILLE, Ont. - Bill Paul was like any other golf fan, watching as Brooks Koepka seized control on No. 16 at Shinnecock Hills to win the U.S. Open. But as tournament director for the upcoming RBC Can...

TOKYO - A Japanese mayor who suffered a stroke at a sumo event and was given first aid by a female nurse who entered the male-only ring has said the sport’s ancient ban on women is outdated. Ryo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Olympic Council of Asia says North and South Korea will field combined teams in three sports - canoeing, rowing and women’s basketball - at the Asian Games in the latest...

LONDON - Eugenie Bouchard has qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon. The Canadian upset No. 2 qualifying seed Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia 6-3, 6-2 in the final round of qualifying on Thursday ...