Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - That familiar losing feeling hung in the air at Rogers Centre on Saturday when a rare Toronto lead was snuffed out in the top of the ninth inning by the Baltimore Orioles. Blue Jays slugger ...

LONDON - Unlike last season’s title race, Tottenham knows it isn’t on the wrong side of a popularity contest in its pursuit of Chelsea. Leicester was the undoubted pick of the neutrals as ...

MONTREAL - When Impact substitute Anthony Jackson-Hamel scored the stoppage-time winner, a weight was lifted off the team’s shoulders. Montreal waited until the dying seconds to notch its first ...

NEW YORK - Columbus Blue Jackets forward Matt Calvert was suspended one game for his cross-check to Pittsburgh’s Tom Kuhnhackl late in the third period of a Game 2 loss to the Penguins. Calvert ...

TORONTO - A video game simulation of the NBA playoffs has the Toronto Raptors exiting once again in six games at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The NBA 2K17 simulation has Toronto sweeping the ...

EDMONTON - San Jose Sharks coach Peter DeBoer says he won’t be taking a wrecking ball to a power play that has gone from lacklustre to downright liability in the NHL playoffs. Through two games,...

SINGAPORE - Captain John Moonlight scored his 98th career try on the rugby sevens circuit as Canada advanced to the Cup quarter-finals at the Singapore Sevens on Saturday. The Canadian men defeated Ru...

KAPOLEI, Hawaii - Cristie Kerr won the LPGA Lotte Championship on Saturday for her 19th tour title, closing with a 6-under 66 for a three-stroke victory. The 39-year-old Kerr broke the tournament reco...

WASHINGTON - Morgan Rielly’s right eye was tinged with yellow and purple with a scrape underneath and there was more damage on the bridge of his nose. These were the last remaining signs of a tr...

LONDON - A complaint from Liverpool’s mayor has sparked police to investigate whether a column in The Sun newspaper constituted a hate crime. Mayor Joe Anderson called for Kelvin MacKenzie to be...