Category Archives: Sports

CALGARY - A four-goal lead with less than four minutes to go in the third period should be safe. But for the Nashville Predators, it nearly wasn’t. Ryan Ellis had his first career two-goal game ...

TORONTO - Michael Grabner observed a different-looking Toronto Maple Leafs squad than the last-place group he left behind last season, one with plenty more speed and skill. “Obviously the young ...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Eugenie Bouchard wasn’t ready to focus on the positives after failing to reach the fourth round at another Grand Slam tournament. Bouchard, who was ranked as high as No. 5...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Blue Jackets, trailing 2-0 with the clock winding down Thursday night, got a full minute of a 5-on-3 power-play chance. But the NHL’s best power-play unit couldn...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Roger Federer relaxed into the chair, his arms folded across his chest in a casual, confident way, and just savored a vintage Australian Open performance. The 17-time Grand Slam...

OTTAWA - Patrick Chan was just 16 years old the last time he skated on the TD Place Arena Ice, finishing seventh at the Canadian figure skating championship. He won gold two years later, the first of ...

NEW YORK - Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan won a tiebreaker to join Cleveland’s LeBron James among the East’s starters for the NBA All-Star Game. DeRozan beat out Boston’s Isaiah Thoma...

VANCOUVER - Troy Stecher watched most of Henrik Sedin’s points in the NHL from afar. Growing up a fan of the Vancouver Canucks, he would marvel as the talented Swede and his twin brother Daniel ...

VANCOUVER - The HSBC Canada Sevens rugby tournament is headed for another record, with 66,000 tickets sold already. That surpasses the 60,418 tickets sold over the two-day event last year, when Vancou...

MONTREAL - Patrick Carpentier admits it took a while to get used to the idea of electric car racing. Now that he’s seen it, he likes it. The former IndyCar ace from Joliette, Que., who has been ...