Category Archives: Sports

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Canada has back-to-back wins to begin the FIBA women’s AmeriCup. Kia Nurse scored a game-high 17 points to go along with eight rebounds as the Canadian squad downed Pue...

TORONTO - Eugenie Bouchard still feels the pressure ahead of her first match at the Rogers Cup, even if the women’s event isn’t in her hometown of Montreal this year. Bouchard, from Westmo...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Canada dropped its tournament opener at the 2017 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup on Monday, falling to Russia 4-3 in a shootout. Joe Veleno found the back of the net in the shootout fo...

LONDON - When Rose Nathike Lokonyen crouches at the start line of the 800 metres on Thursday, her race will be a victory before the starting gun even sounds. Her blue race singlet will read “Ref...

BARCELONA, Spain - Eight months after surviving the plane crash that killed most of his Chapecoense teammates, Alan Ruschel played his first minutes of football on Monday when his Brazilian club met B...

CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is challenging his Vermont counterpart to a drag race. Sununu tweeted to Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Monday, saying that “rumour on the street is t...

MANKATO, Minn. - Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said Monday that he is ready to commit nearly $150 million to Andrew Wiggins with a max-level extension of his rookie contract. Before he does...

TORONTO - The top eight women’s seeds at the Rogers Cup held round table interviews with media on Monday. Here are some of their most memorable quotes: “I was actually taking (my dog) here...

For Canadian coach Francois Ratier, the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup marks an end to one chapter of his working life. The French-born Ratier, who now calls Montreal home, took the Canadian women...

LONDON - For a couple of minutes Monday night, Aaron Brown believed perhaps Canada’s luck at the world track and field championships was turning. He’d raced to a victory in his 200-metre h...