Category Archives: Sports

MILAN - Roma failed to reach the Champions League group stage after having two men sent off in a 3-0 defeat at home to Porto in the second leg of their playoff on Tuesday. Roma had drawn the first leg...

Watford and West Bromwich Albion were beaten by third-tier opposition in the English League Cup on Tuesday, while fellow Premier League sides Liverpool and Everton enjoyed big wins in the second round...

Tepin’s second workout in nearly five weeks has the champion turf mare firmly on schedule to run in next month’s $1-million Ricoh Woodbine Mile. The heralded filly ran a half-mile in a sha...

PRIDDIS, Alta. - She was the fresh face of Canadian women’s golf a year before Brooke Henderson was born. Now Lorie Kane, who at 51 is making her 26th straight appearance at the Canadian Open, i...

TORONTO - A New York woman is suing Edwin Encarnacion, alleging the Toronto Blue Jays slugger knowingly infected her with two sexually transmitted diseases. Ashley Lebron, 24, filed the lawsuit in a N...

EDMONTON - Defending champion Bauke Mollema and Canadian cyclist Ryder Hesjedal will headline the 2016 Tour of Alberta multi-stage cycling race. Mollema, who won the 2015 Tour of Alberta, finished 11t...

NEW YORK - Serena Williams is the No. 1 seeded woman for the U.S. Open after barely holding on to the top spot in the rankings, and Novak Djokovic is No. 1 among the men. Neither Williams nor Djokovic...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed Canadian defender/midfielder Brett Levis to a multi-year first-team contract. The contract is through 2017 with options for 2018 and 2019. Levis, who wa...

TORONTO - CBC’s English-language coverage of the Rio Olympics averaged 1.271 million viewers, an 11 per cent increase over the 2012 London Games. The primetime average was 2.315 million, 23 per ...

TORONTO - Despite suffering a hand injury that placed him on the disabled list, don’t expect Kevin Pillar’s game to change any time soon. The Toronto Blue Jays activated the rugged centre-...