Category Archives: Sports

PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Stanley Cup championship, the first an NHL team has won back to back in almost 20 years, spawned by far the biggest victory parade of any of the franchise&#...

A total of 20 Canadians were selected over the three-day MLB draft, including 16 on the final day on Wednesday. That number is down from 25 drafted in 2016. The record is 48 in 2002. Of the 20 selecti...

WASHINGTON - The game will go on. The annual Congressional Baseball Game, which dates to 1909 and is a summertime tradition on Capitol Hill, will be played Thursday despite Wednesday’s shooting ...

LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. will come out of retirement to meet UFC star Conor McGregor in an Aug. 26 boxing match that will feature two of the top-selling fighters in the world. The two fighters...

BARCELONA, Spain - Canadian swimming star Penny Oleksiak has another Canadian record to her name. The 17-year-old from Toronto set a Canadian record en route to winning silver in the women’s 50-...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators are “hopeful” that Erik Karlsson will be ready for the start of the 2017-18 season following surgery to his left foot on Wednesday. Senators general manager Pi...

Veteran Ashley Steacy, a cornerstone of the Canadian women’s rugby sevens team, will play her final tournament at the Clermont-Ferrand Sevens later this month. The 29-year-old from Lethbridge, A...

MONTREAL - Daniel Lovitz attended the Montreal Impact’s training camp in February on a try-out, just looking for a job. Now he’s the starting left back. Lovitz inherited the position when ...

VANCOUVER - Jordan Harvey could barely hide his smile when the conversation turned to the slick structure beyond the lush soccer pitch over his right shoulder. Carl Robinson, meanwhile, spoke of the h...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have placed outfielder Ezequiel Carrera the 10-day disabled list with a right foot fracture. Carrera, who had an RBI single in Toronto’s 8-1 loss to Tampa Bay on ...