Category Archives: Sports

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact want to make Saputo Stadium an unpleasant place for visiting teams to play. It hasn’t been the case this season, where a 2-2-3 record in their 20,801-seat home par...

WASHINGTON - Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard is out of the Citi Open but hasn’t yet decided if she’ll bow out of the Rio Olympics. The fifth-seeded Bouchard was upset in straight sets in t...

TORONTO - Sebastian Giovinco always wears his heart on his sleeve. Scoreless in eight MLS games, the Italian star’s frustration has been plain to see lately. Toronto FC officials say Giovinco is...

BERN, Switzerland - British sprinter Mark Cavendish has withdrawn from the Tour de France in a bid to improve his medal chances at next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Team Dimension Data ma...

OAKVILLE, Ont. - There was a time when Graham DeLaet thought he would never be able to represent his country on the Olympic stage. Now DeLaet will be part of a Canadian team brimming with potential wh...

TORONTO - Tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have pulled out of the Rogers Cup, leaving the Toronto tournament without three of the world’s top four men’s tennis players. Tennis C...

DETROIT - A judge has ordered former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling to stand trial on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Detroit police say Appling was arrested after officers st...

BERN, Switzerland - As the Tour de France heads toward the Alps, Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde have only a few opportunities left to try and derail Chris Froome’s bid for a third title i...

MONTREAL - Milos Raonic has already pulled out of the Olympics and now Tennis Canada is awaiting final word on whether Eugenie Bouchard will play at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Bouchard, ranked ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it has dismissed a request by 2008 Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer to lift his provisional ban from competition over a new d...