Category Archives: Sports

CARDRONA, New Zealand - Canada’s Cassie Sharpe won gold at the first FIS freestyle World Cup event of the season on Friday in the women’s snowboard halfpipe. Sharpe, from Calgary, had 91.0...

CALGARY - Kevin Sutherland made the most of an early start at the Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club on Friday. Sutherland was in the second group out on the back nine of the par-70, 7,086-yard cour...

NEW YORK - Toronto pitcher Luis Pena and New York Mets pitcher Jose Sierra have been suspended for violating baseball’s minor league drug program. Pena was banned for 72 games Friday following a...

VANCOUVER - Veteran forward Thomas Vanek and the Vancouver Canucks agreed to a one-year contract on Friday worth US$2 million. The 33-year-old Vanek had 17 goals and 31 assists in 68 games split betwe...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact are anticipating a slumping Chicago Fire team to be more dangerous and unpredictable than the last time these teams met. The Impact host Chicago at Saputo Stadium in Maj...

Like many Houston residents, Canadian international striker Janine Beckie is crossing her fingers as she watches the destruction of hurricane Harvey from a distance. Beckie is one of the lucky ones, h...

NEW YORK - Denis Shapovalov’s impressive run at the U.S. Open continued Friday when British opponent Kyle Edmund retired from their third-round match with an injury. The 18-year-old left-hander ...

TORONTO - After time in the soccer doldrums, Canada turned heads with its confident, even adventurous play at this summer’s Gold Cup. But new coach Octavio Zambrano says the Canadian men have mo...

TORONTO - The Canadian Women’s Hockey League will pay its players for regular-season games starting this season. A pay structure unveiled Friday was passed by the league’s board of directo...

TORONTO - A hometown boy, Greg Worthington grew up in Queensbury and still lives in the English village. “I think if I left there I’d probably get a nosebleed,” he said. “IR...