Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs named Mark Hunter as their assistant general manager Monday. Hunter, who joined the Leafs as their player-personnel director in October 2014, will share the role with...

VANCOUVER - With his team battling for its Major League Soccer playoff life, Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson was asked if Tuesday nights’ CONCACAF Champions League match was a distr...

RIO DE JANEIRO - The chef de mission of the Canadian Olympic team believes there was a Pan Am effect at work. The 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto just over a year ago provided not just a boost in b...

Sunday’s Games MLB American Detroit 10 Boston 5 Cleveland 3 Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 8 Texas 4 Houston 5 Baltimore 3 Chicago White Sox 4 Oakland 2 Kansas City 2 Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 2 N.Y. Yankees...

TORONTO - Forward Kayla Tutino was selected first overall on Sunday by the Boston Blades in the 2016 Canadian Women’s Hockey League draft. The 23-year-old Tutino, from Montreal, played the past ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Penny Oleksiak capped a memorable Summer Olympics as Canada’s flag-bearer at Sunday’s closing ceremony of the Rio Games. The 16-year-old swimming sensation from Toronto st...

TORONTO - Camp Creek and jockey Rafael Hernandez made successful debuts Sunday. Hernandez guided Camp Creek, a 26/1 longshot to a stirring win in the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the final leg of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Penny Oleksiak led Canada to the podium four times at the Rio Olympics. It was only fitting then that she led the Canadian delegation into Maracana Stadium for the closing ceremony of...

Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona was relieved following Sunday’s 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Jose Ramirez hit a two-run homer off Brett Cecil in the eighth inning and the Ind...

The first Premier League game staged at the centerpiece stadium of the London Olympics in 2012 served up some late drama Sunday, with new tenant West Ham scoring in the 85th minute to earn a 1-0 win o...