Category Archives: Sports
Impact find scoring touch in time to match Toronto FC's torrid attack
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have found their scoring touch just at the right time of year. They’ll probably need it when they go into the second leg of the two-game MLS Eastern Conference fin...
Nov 25, 2016
Canadians leading the way at West Virginia in NCCA women's soccer tournament
Canadians will be front and centre Saturday when top-ranked West Virginia hosts Duke in the quarter-finals of the NCAA women’s soccer tournament. There are seven Canadians on the West Virginia r...
Nov 25, 2016
Florence Henderson was longtime pre-race Indy 500 performer
INDIANAPOLIS - The president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is remembering actress Florence Henderson as a “lovely lady” who sang nearly two dozen times during Indianapolis 500 pre-rac...
Nov 25, 2016
CFL commissioner Orridge won't admit to link between football and brain disease
TORONTO - CFL commissioner Jeffrey Orridge isn’t following the NFL’s lead and acknowledging a link exists between football-related head trauma and brain disease. In March, Jeff Miller, the...
Nov 25, 2016
Puempel, Lundqvist lead Rangers past Flyers
PHILADELPHIA - Just as they hoped they would, Henrik Lundqvist and the Rangers bounced back from a dismal performance. Matt Puempel scored in his first game with the Rangers, and Henrik Lundqvist made...
Nov 25, 2016
Award-winning Calgary Stampeders say there is no taking Ottawa lightly
TORONTO - Dave Dickenson was a tad prickly with the media ahead of his team’s practice Friday, irked over suggestions the Calgary Stampeders will take Ottawa too lightly in Sunday’s Grey C...
Nov 25, 2016
New flyhalf kicks Samoa to 25-23 win over Canada in Grenoble
GRENOBLE, France - Samoa unveiled a potential new star as teenage flyhalf D’Angelo Leuila kicked 20 points to hold off Canada 25-23 and end their European rugby tour on a high on Friday. Making ...
Nov 25, 2016
Youth fuels and imperils Maple Leafs through first quarter of season
TORONTO - In the heated aftermath of a loss in New Jersey earlier this week, Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock remarked that it was “evident how young we are”. Though he retreated from t...
Nov 25, 2016
3 Olympic gold medals stripped in latest IOC doping retests
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Three Olympic gold medals and one silver medal were stripped on Friday from athletes caught in the latest round of positive doping retests from the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games. ...
Nov 25, 2016
Ottawa Redblacks have a new outlook as they get a second chance to be No. 1
TORONTO - For the Ottawa Redblacks, Sunday’s Grey Cup is a second chance to be No. 1. The Redblacks gave up a late touchdown to lose last year’s championship game 26-20 to the Edmonton Esk...
Nov 25, 2016
