Category Archives: Sports

LONDON - On a night intended to celebrate one of the greatest athletes of all time, someone crashed Usain Bolt’s farewell party. But it wasn’t Andre De Grasse. The Canadian wasn’t at...

LONDON - More bad news for Canada at the world track and field championships. Derek Drouin, the reigning world and Olympic champion in high jump, announced he was withdrawing with an Achilles tendon i...

LONDON - One final time, Usain Bolt peered down the last 50 metres of his lane and saw sprinter upon sprinter running footsteps ahead of him. One final time, the World’s Fastest Man furiously pu...

TORONTO - Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova, the top seed in Rogers Cup women’s qualifying, moved on to the second round of qualifiers on Saturday with a victory over Japan’s Kurumi Na...

MONTREAL - Ashleigh Gentle of Australia posted her first World Triathlon Series victory, but Joanna Brown of Ottawa may have celebrated just as much for finishing fourth. A week after coming in sevent...

MONTREAL - Canadian Frank Dancevic moved one step closer to a berth in the Rogers Cup main draw, defeating Marius Copil in a Saturday qualifier at Uniprix Stadium. Dancevic, from Niagara Falls, Ont., ...

Oakland outfielder Matt Joyce received a two-game suspension without pay Saturday for directing a gay slur toward a fan in Anaheim and he will take part in a public outreach initiative with PFLAG, a f...

LONDON - Crystal Emmanuel knew little about longtime sprint star Marita Payne-Wiggins, other than as the name listed alongside a Canadian record she had been diligently chasing. “Only thing (I k...

VIENNA - Canada’s team of Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes finished fourth at the FIVB beach volleyball world championship on Saturday, losing 2-1 to Brazil in the bronze-medal match. The ...

When Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe returned home from the Rio Olympics last summer, everyone wanted to see her bronze medal. It became a constant refrain: Where’s the medal? Can I see the ...