Category Archives: Sports

Captain Gavin Schmitt was among 12 athletes named to Canada’s men’s volleyball team on Friday ahead of the Rio Olympic Games. It’s the first time in 24 years that Canada will have a ...

Disgraced junior hockey coach and convicted sex offender Graham James is seeking full parole with the support of his case workers. James is serving a seven-year sentence for sexually assaulting player...

The Canadian women’s soccer team plays its final pre-Olympic warmup Saturday when it takes on highly rated France in Auxerre. There is history between the two. Canada edged France 1-0 for the br...

MOSCOW - The International Olympic Committee is weighing up whether to ban Russia from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro after revelations of a massive doping coverup, but relations between t...

LONDON - Russia faces being kicked out of the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in the latest disciplinary action by a sports body infuriated at growing evidence about the country’s state-sponsored ...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact traded veteran midfielder Eric Alexander to the Houston Dynamo for targeted allocation money, the Major League Soccer club announced Friday. The move clears space on the...

MONTREAL - Caroline Wozniacki, who retired from a match this week at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. this week with a left arm injury, has withdrawn from the women’s Rogers Cup, organizers ann...

TORONTO - Natalie Achonwa has worn a wide smile since touching down in Toronto on Thursday night. The 22-year-old forward for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever said there’s a transformation that ha...

Toronto FC’s stuttering offence should get a helping hand in the form of Jozy Altidore this weekend, even if it is just in the form of a cameo off the bench. Toronto (6-7-6), which hosts D.C. Un...

VANCOUVER - A few punches were thrown after a Vancouver Whitecaps practice this week. The fracas wasn’t a sign of any simmering tensions on the team. It was a little fun before the Whitecaps tra...