Category Archives: Sports

VANCOUVER - Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist Demian Maia believes he should be next in line for a UFC welterweight title shot if he beats Carlos Condit in Saturday’s main event at UFC Fight Night ...

TORONTO - The Canadian Football League has approved a rule change on coaches’ challenges. Effective immediately, if a team makes their first coach’s challenge of the game and does not win ...

MOSCOW - Luxury cars, apartments, even a racehorse - being an Olympic medallist in Russia can come with great material rewards but also controversy. Under President Vladimir Putin, it’s become a...

NEW YORK - With goaltender Robin Lehner still not fully healthy, Sweden replaced him on its World Cup of Hockey roster with Jhonas Enroth. The Buffalo Sabres’ starting goalie was bothered by a r...

TORONTO - The groundwork for Derek Drouin’s Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games was laid in 2013. The year after a disappointing London Olympics - when his bronze in high jumping was Canada̵...

CALGARY - Taylor Reed has waited patiently to face his former Hamilton Tiger-Cats teammates. The six-foot, 241-pound linebacker spent two seasons in Hamilton before signing with Calgary Stampeders as ...

Canada has risen to fourth in the FIFA women’s soccer ranking on the strength of its bronze-medal performance at the Rio Olympics. The Canadian team gained 93 ranking points and moved up six spo...

Despite everything that Serena Williams has won and done, her sense of self can still fluctuate based on the outcome of a particular match. Doesn’t always seem to matter that she owns a record-t...

NEW YORK - Serena Williams is “starting to feel a little better.” Novak Djokovic is “getting there.” The U.S. Open’s top seeds in both singles brackets are coming off inj...

JOHANNESBURG - A South African judge on Friday dismissed an appeal by prosecutors for a harsher sentence against Oscar Pistorius who was found guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend in 2013. Judg...