Category Archives: Sports

BOSTON - Patrick Maroon interrupted his scoring onslaught to accept an invitation to fight 6-foot-9 Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chara. “‘Z’ asked me to go. I respect ‘Z.’ I s...

TORONTO - Moments before Toronto took the court against Utah on Thursday, Jazz coach Quin Snyder was heaping praise on Kyle Lowry, calling him his favourite player in the Eastern Conference. And then ...

WASHINGTON - John Tortorella broke from his usual routine after the Columbus Blue Jackets’ streak-breaking clunker on Thursday night. He felt he had to. Tortorella walked into the visiting locke...

Toronto Raptors forward Patrick Patterson was sidelined for the third consecutive game with a strained left knee on Thursday. The Raptors were hosting the Utah Jazz in their first game at Air Canada C...

MONTREAL - Russian netminder Ilya Samsonov was at his best on Thursday and it showed in a bronze-medal victory for his team at the world junior hockey championship. The 19-year-old Samsonov stopped 38...

MONTREAL - International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel wonders if Montreal is a one-team town and that’s why attendance has been weak at the world junior championship. “Here, ...

FUSSEN, Germany - Laura Stacey of Kleinburg, Ont., and Victoria Bach of Milton, Ont., scored less than four minutes apart in the second period to lead the Canadian women’s under-22 team to a 2-1...

TORONTO - The Canadian women’s rugby team starts 2017 believing a world championship is within its reach. For the only one of Rugby Canada’s four senior teams that isn’t centralized,...

It’s been a meteoric rise for Canadian Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. Taken in the sixth round, 200th overall, of the 2014 NFL draft from McGill University, the 25-year-old native of Mont-St-Hilaire, ...

Chris Berman isn’t disappearing from in front of the cameras or from behind the microphones. He’s simply stepping to the side a bit. The longtime ESPN fixture is giving up his regular on-a...