Category Archives: Sports
Calgary practises indoors, Dickenson wary of prying eyes overlooking stadium
OTTAWA - Dave Dickenson wasn’t going to risk prying eyes ahead of the season’s biggest game. Two days before they take on the Toronto Argonauts in the Grey Cup, the Calgary Stampeders chos...
Nov 24, 2017
FC Edmonton closes shop, leaves embattled North American Soccer League
EDMONTON - FC Edmonton is leaving the North American Soccer League and “discontinuing professional franchise operations effective immediately.” The Edmonton departure is the latest blow fo...
Nov 24, 2017
Young Canadian women's rugby side wraps up three-match series with England
Canada interim women’s rugby coach Sandro Fiorino has made three personnel changes and one positional switch for his team’s third and final test match against England on Saturday. Pamphine...
Nov 24, 2017
Trump supporters confuse LeVar Burton with LaVar Ball online
LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump is feuding with LaVar Ball and LeVar Burton is taking the hit on Twitter. Burton is an actor best known for playing Lt. La Forge in “Star Trek” on TV a...
Nov 24, 2017
Canada set for semifinal against mighty Australia at Rugby League world Cup
Canada was thumped 88-0 by defending champion Australia in group play at the Women’s Rugby League World Cup and chances are it will be another tough day at the office this weekend when the two m...
Nov 24, 2017
As 4 more Russians banned, Olympic leader Bach warns critics
GENEVA - As four more Russians were disqualified Friday for doping at the Sochi Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach signalled a possible shift toward barring the country’s athletes from the Pyeo...
Nov 24, 2017
Oscar Pistorius' sentence increased to 13 years, 5 months
SOMERSET WEST, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius’ prison sentence was more than doubled to 13 years and five months on Friday, a surprisingly dramatic intervention by South Africa’s Supreme C...
Nov 23, 2017
Redskins beat Giants 20-10 in turkey of a Thanksgiving game
LANDOVER, Md. - In one particularly embarrassing fourth-quarter sequence that drew boos from the home crowd, Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins went from planning to punt on fourth-and-1 to call...
Nov 23, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Thursday’s Games NFL Minnesota 30 Detroit 23 L.A. Chargers 28 Dallas 6 Washington 20 N.Y. Giants 10 — Friday’s Games (All Times Eastern) NHL Pittsburgh at Boston, 1 p.m. N.Y. Islande...
Nov 23, 2017
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games NFL Minnesota 30 Detroit 23 L.A. Chargers 28 Dallas 6 Washington 20 N.Y. Giants 10 — The Canadian Press
Nov 23, 2017
