SAINT MORITZ - Canadian freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury won his fourth consecutive dual moguls title at the world championships Friday. Kingsbury, from Deux-Montagnes, Que., beat Japanese rival Ikuma Horishima in the final to capture gold, while Australia's Matt Graham won bronze. Horishima prevented Kingsbury f...

NANJING - Sarah Mitton won Canada's first gold medal at the world indoor track and field championships Friday, capturing the women's shot put title with a throw of 20.48 metres. Jessica Schilder, of the Netherlands, won silver (20.07), while American Chas Jackson took home bronze (20.06.) Mitton successfully defended h...

UIJEONGBU-SI - Canada's Rachel Homan closed out her round-robin schedule with a pair of wins at the LGT World Women's Curling Championship in South Korea. Homan and her top-ranked Ottawa-based rink of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes beat Italy 9-2 and China 7-5 on Friday. Canada finished tied for second with...

SAINT MORITZ - Canada's Liam Brearley captured men's slopestyle gold at the snowboard world championships on Friday. The 22-year-old from Gravenhurst, Ont., scored 90.15 points on his second run to claim his first-ever world championship medal. Olympic champion Su Yiming, of China, earned silver with 85.07, while Ameri...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers lost both a game and another superstar Thursday, falling 4-3 in overtime to the Winnipeg Jets after Connor McDavid left with a lower-body injury. McDavid exited following a second-period collision with Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey. Edmonton's captain is now a key question mark as the te...

SAINT MORITZ - Canada's Courtney Hoffos claimed silver in women's ski cross at the freestyle skiing world championships on Friday. World Cup champion Fanny Smith of Switzerland won gold, while Germany's Daniela Maier took bronze. India Sherret of Cranbrook, B.C., finished eighth. Hoffos, from Windermere, B.C., had thre...

VANCOUVER - Sebastian Berhalter wants to stay "level headed" when the Vancouver Whitecaps face a Chicago Fire team coached by his father in a Major League Soccer match Saturday. "Obviously it's pretty special seeing your dad on the sideline," the 23-year-old midfielder said after training this week....

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alex Ovechkin scored his 888th career goal to continue his pursuit of the NHL record, and the Washington Capitals moved to the verge of clinching a playoff berth by beating the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Thursday night. Ovechkin beat Samuel Ersson with 5:35 left in the first period to move eight goals...

EDMONTON - It didn't take long for the Winnipeg Jets to prove that Tuesday's 6-2 loss in Vancouver was an aberration. Playing another top Western Conference squad, Kyle Connor scored the overtime winner as the Jets came away with a narrow 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday. The Oilers were without the lea...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Jimmy Butler had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists for his second triple-double with Golden State, and the Warriors held on to beat the Toronto Raptors 117-114 on Thursday night after Stephen Curry left the game with an injury. Curry, who was held out of Tuesday's win over the Milwaukee Bucks t...

INGLEWOOD - Raul Jimenez stunned Canada with a first-minute goal and added another on a 75th-minute free kick for a 2-0 Mexico win Thursday in a frenetic, hot-blooded CONCACAF Nations League semifinal. The 31st-ranked Canadian men pushed hard for a tying goal after digging themselves an early hole. But Jimenez, who pla...

EDMONTON - Kyle Connor scored the overtime winner as the Winnipeg Jets came away with a narrow 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday. Cole Perfetti, Josh Morrissey and Brandon Tanev also scored for the Jets (48-18-4), who have won four of their last five. Jeff Skinner had a pair of goals and Zach Hyman also ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk fully expects his squad to rebound after a tough loss Thursday night. Ottawa fell 5-1 to the Colorado Avalanche, losing its second in a row after a six-game winning streak. The Senators (36-27-5) are desperate to put an end to a seven-year playoff drought and can ill affor...

NEW YORK (AP) - Bo Horvat scored his second goal of the game 3:37 into overtime to lift the New York Islanders past the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Thursday night for their third straight victory. Ilya Sorokin made 38 saves and had his first two assists of the season, the first Islanders goalie with multiple points in a ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Philip Broberg scored 3:42 into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Thursday night for their fourth straight victory. Tyler Tucker and Dylan Holloway scored 24 seconds apart for the Blues in the third period. Zack Bolduc also had a goal, and Jordan Binnington made 15 save...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Philip Broberg scored 3:42 into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Thursday night for their fourth straight victory. Tyler Tucker and Dylan Holloway scored 24 seconds apart for the Blues in the third period. Zack Bolduc also had a goal, and Jordan Binnington made 15 save...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Philip Broberg scored 3:42 into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Thursday night for their fourth straight victory. Tyler Tucker and Dylan Holloway scored 24 seconds apart for the Blues in the third period. Zack Bolduc also had a goal, and Jordan Binnington made 15 save...

NEW YORK (AP) - John Tavares scored twice and an added an assist, and Anthony Stolarz made 27 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the New York Rangers 4-3 on Thursday night. Bobby McMann and Matthew Knies also scored to help Toronto win its third straight game. Jake McCabe had three assists and William Nylander c...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Jonathan Huberdeau scored with 3:20 left to play to lift the Calgary Flames to a come-from-behind 5-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night. Matt Coronato, Connor Zary, Daniil Miromanov and Nazem Kadri also had goals for Calgary, which erased a two-goal deficit in the third period wit...

NEW YORK (AP) - John Tavares scored twice and an added an assist, and Anthony Stolarz made 27 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the New York Rangers 4-3 on Thursday night. Bobby McMann and Matthew Knies also scored to help Toronto win its third straight game. Jake McCabe had three assists and William Nylander c...

OTTAWA - The Colorado Avalanche wasted no time asserting their dominance Thursday night, scoring four first-period goals en route to a commanding 5-1 victory over the playoff-hungry Ottawa Senators. Nathan MacKinnon, Brock Nelson, with his first as a member of the Avalanche (42-25-3), Cale Makar and Joel Kiviranta each...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) - Keith Mitchell thrived in a tough wind on a tough Copperhead course at Innisbrook on Thursday until he dropped two shots late in his round and had to settle for a 4-under 67 and a five-way share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. The gusts were in the 30 mph range at times. Rain pelted th...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - McNeese coach Will Wade and his boombox-toting manager are moving on in March Madness after the 12th-seeded Cowboys held off late-charging No. 5 seed Clemson 69-67 on Friday in the first bracket buster of the NCAA Tournament. Brandon Murray scored 14 of his 21 points in a stifling first half, wh...

Jackson Findlay can see medical school in his future, but he's looking forward to concentrating on football first. The six-foot-three, 203-pound Western Ontario safety will command much attention at the CFL combine, which begins Friday in Regina. The All-Canadian and 2024 President's Trophy finalist ended last season r...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - McNeese coach Will Wade and his boombox-toting manager are moving on in March Madness after the 12th-seeded Cowboys held off late-charging No. 5 seed Clemson 69-67 on Friday in the first bracket buster of the NCAA Tournament. Brando Murray scored 14 of his 21 points in a stifling first half, whe...

CALGARY - As the clock ticked down to the Northern Super League's launch, president Christina Litz made the rounds to check in on its clubs' final preparations. The reveal of each of the six clubs' kits Thursday was another signpost on the road to the Canadian women's professional soccer league that opens April 16 when...

DUNEDIN - Bowden Francis earned a win with by far his best outing this spring, Anthony Santander drove in three runs, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Thursday. Francis, who entered the game with a 9.00 earned-run average, pitched 4 1/3 innings of no-hit ball until giving up a single to Tanner M...

GARDEN CITY - Brendan Gallagher pounded his heart and looked skyward after scoring a goal earlier this week. The Montreal Canadiens forward revealed why Thursday. Gallagher said he's been playing through an emotional time since his mother, Della, died earlier this month after a long battle with brain cancer. "Real...