Category Archives: Sports

MONTREAL - There was no stopping Canada when Tyson Jost and his teammates stormed out of the gate. Jost scored the first of his two first-period goals only 11 seconds into the game as Canada cruised t...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A scheduled game between the Carolina Hurricanes and Detroit Red Wings was postponed Monday night because of unplayable ice. A Freon leak in the cooling system at PNC Arena was discove...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A 27-year-old man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to charges connected with a snowmobile attack on two mushers competing in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in ...

VANCOUVER - Standing in the same hallway where one of the defining - and ugly - moments of his brief and tumultuous time with the Vancouver Canucks took place, John Tortorella seems more relaxed, if o...

Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan has earned Eastern Conference player of the week honours for the second time this season. DeRozan led the NBA last week averaging 31.5 points on 60.5 per cent shooting in...

SASKATOON - Brian Towriss is stepping down after 33 years as the University of Saskatchewan’s head football coach. Towriss, 60, a native of Moose Jaw, Sask., was a defensive lineman with the Hus...

SUNRISE, Fla. - Vincent Viola has insisted for the past three years that his sole focus as owner of the Florida Panthers was to win the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. He’ll be otherwise oc...

TORONTO - Almost two years after he was fired by the Maple Leafs, Randy Carlyle has reached at least one conclusion about what went wrong during his 188-game tenure as Toronto’s head coach. R...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed goalkeeper Spencer Richey and striker Kyle Grieg to Major League Soccer contracts. The deals are for 2017 with options for the following three seasons. ...

MONTREAL - Dylan Strome was named captain of Canada’s team for the world junior hockey championships with Mathew Barzal and Thomas Chabot as alternate captains, Hockey Canada announced Monday. A...