Category Archives: Sports

PARIS - Four different Canadian players scored and captain Claude Giroux had two assists as the two-time defending champions opened the IIHF World Hockey Championship with a 4-1 victory over the Czech...

Friday’s Games NHL Playoffs Second Round Anaheim 4 Edmonton 3 (OT) (Ducks lead series 3-2) St. Louis 2 Nashville 1 (Predators lead series 3-2) — IIHF World Hockey Championship Canada 4 Cze...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - The University of Iowa will hire an outside firm to review its employment practices after a jury ruled that it discriminated and retaliated against a high-ranking gay female athletic...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Two trainers saddling three horses each. A horse trying to win for the first time. The early favourite whose training was interrupted. Another attempting to overcome irascible behavi...

Rhys Duch knew the Vancouver Stealth were becoming more popular when he had to start staying later at the team’s arena to pose for photos and sign autographs for fans. After the Stealth clinched...

NEW YORK - Wreak havoc. That was Dion Phaneuf’s solution for the Ottawa Senators’ sputtering offence heading into Game 5 of their playoff series with the New York Rangers. “We do hav...

ZURICH - Argentina captain Lionel Messi was cleared by FIFA on Friday to play in the next three World Cup qualifiers after a ban for insulting a referee’s assistant was lifted. Messi already ser...

TORONTO - Dunking off the backboard. Drinking a beer. Nonchalantly spinning the ball in Serge Ibaka’s face. LeBron James’s apparent lack of respect for Toronto has added some drama to the ...

DOHA, Qatar - Olympic champion Thomas Rohler threw the javelin farther than anyone else has done for more than 20 years at the Diamond League opener in Doha, while Akani Simbine was the surprise winne...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have had a laborious start to the Major League Soccer season and it won’t get any easier when they visit D.C. United. The Impact (1-3-4) will be looking to rebound...