Category Archives: Sports

LOS ANGELES - Laila Ali returns as host of the Sports Humanitarian of the Year awards, which plan to honour her father Muhammad Ali in a tribute she eagerly awaits. The show on Tuesday at the Conga Ro...

TORONTO - The results of the latest investigation into Russian doping will be released on Monday. Canadian law professor Richard McLaren will hold a news conference in Toronto to present the findings ...

MONTREAL - While Canada became the only host country not to win a gold medal at a Summer Olympics, the 1976 Games had notable performances from athletes from around the world. Here are some of the sta...

Montreal’s Olympic Stadium opened in 1976 for that year’s Summer Games. A by-the-numbers look at the Big O or, as some dub it, the “Big Owe”: 1: Number of papal visits. Pope Jo...

Montreal’s Olympic Stadium opened in 1976 for that year’s Summer Games. A look at some of the problems that have plagued the Big O or, as some dub it, the “Big Owe”: July 1976:...

EDMONTON - Nirra Fields poured in a game-high 16 points as Canada’s women’s basketball team defeated China 71-59 on Monday to sweep the three-game Edmonton Grads International Classic seri...

SAN DIEGO - Giancarlo Stanton wore out Petco Park with a record display of power in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, peppering every landmark from the left field corner to centre field. St...

Now the waiting begins for Rashaun Simonise. The Calgary Dinos receiver held his pro day Monday in preparation for the NFL supplemental draft on Thursday. With the audition complete, all the six-foot-...

CALGARY - Former Calgary Stampeder Ron Allbright has died. He was 81. The team said Monday night that Allbright had died in Calgary on Saturday. Allbright, a Calgary native, played primarily as an off...

EDMONTON - One by one they walked down the stairs of Edmonton’s City Hall, throwers, jumpers, sprinters, decathletes, world champions, Olympic medallists. Canada will field its largest - and arg...