Category Archives: Sports

RIO DE JANEIRO - Good old Michael Phelps, golden again. For teenagers Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles, their star turns in the Summer Olympics might be just beginning. From the pool to the gymnastics f...

WASHINGTON - Michael Jordan has made another major donation, pledging $5 million to the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum on the National Mall. Officials at the National Museum o...

TORONTO - Marco Estrada described himself as “rusty” in one of his shortest outings of the season, perhaps a result, he said, of the Blue Jays new six-man rotation. The Blue Jays all-star ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - With professional football not working out, Tim Tebow is going to give baseball a try. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL first-round draft pick plans to hold a workout ...

Yasiel Puig has found the party in the Pacific Coast League. Days after a demotion to the minors, the unpredictable Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder posted videos to his Snapchat account Monday night of...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes added kicker Anthony Fera to their roster Tuesday and moved struggling Boris Bede to the six-game injured list. The Alouettes had been trying out kickers this week wi...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Canadian divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito have won a bronze medal in the women’s 10-metre synchronized event. The two women, who also won bronze four years ago in Lon...

TERREBONE, Que. - Shea Weber knows all about the outrage Canadiens fans expressed when he was traded by the Nashville Predators to Montreal for the popular P.K. Subban. And the big defenceman knows hi...

Big-money sports football and men’s basketball were involved in 83 per cent of NCAA Division I major infractions cases from 1953 to 2014, according to the first study of its kind released Tuesda...

TORONTO - A prohibition on Olympic GIFs has inspired a slew of tweets lamenting - or advising how to work around - the International Olympic Committee’s copyright regulations. In advance of the ...