Category Archives: Sports

After finishing with the usual game-day questions, Minnesota Wild forward Zach Parise was intrigued by one more query. Could he point to why, after so many years as the NHL’s dominant force, the...

TORONTO - The Dean Blundell experiment is over at Toronto radio station Sportsnet 590 The Fan. His morning show was cancelled Wednesday, less than two years after his debut on the all-sports station a...

BOSTON - The family of a Massachusetts woman who died halfway through the Super Bowl said the Patriots’ stunning come-from-behind win helped ease their grief. The Boston Globe reports that Maril...

Marcel Desjardins expects he’ll have some work to do when the CFL free agency period begins. The general manager of the Grey Cup-champion Ottawa Redblacks hopes to sign two of his pending free a...

TORONTO - The orange soles of Evan Dunfee’s shoes were worn through at the toes. They looked like the running shoe version of a tattered ballet slipper. And they were barely two weeks old. The C...

A 2-1 pre-season loss to Cal State Fullerton didn’t faze Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney. He saw it as serving a purpose for the MLS Cup runners-up. Sunday’s setback came on the eighth straig...

When long-time Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf first joined the Ottawa Senators, his new teammates didn’t really know what to think. Someone they grew to hate was now suddenly clad in t...

MONTREAL - If there are younger players ready to earn playing time on the veteran Montreal Impact squad, it would be teenage midfielders Ballou Jean-Yves Tabla and David Choiniere. Asked about the pai...

Scotty Bowman had coached nine NHL seasons and won two titles by the time he was tasked with leading his country at the 1976 Canada Cup. The teams set to face Canada that September, including the Sovi...

TORONTO - When English striker Bradley Wright-Phillips arrived in Major League Soccer, he was looking forward to seeing North America. Then the reality of MLS travel set in for the New York Red Bulls ...