MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Vinícius Júnior scored two goals, Matheus Cunha also scored and five-time World Cup champion Brazil beat Scotland 3-0 on Wednesday, advancing to the knockout stage as the Group C winner. Vinícius - who has a goal in all three...

KAMLOOPS - Riverside Park was a sea of red and white as thousands of Kamloops and area residents came together Wednesday (June 24) afternoon to watch Canada take on Switzerland at B.C. Place in Vancouver in the latest in a series of World Cup watch parties. "It's been really enjoyable seeing the community come out...

ATLANTA (AP) - Soufiane Rahimi and Gessime Yassine came off the bench to help Morocco rally for a 4-2 victory over Haiti on Wednesday and erase the Caribbean nation's hopes of a first ever point at the World Cup. Morocco, which became the...

ATLANTA (AP) - Qatar player Assim Madibo was given a five-match ban on Wednesday for the tackle that broke the leg of Canada midfielder Ismaël Koné at the World Cup. Madibo was issued a straight red card for the incident during Canada's 6-0 victory ove...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Already an accomplished roller hockey player growing up in Grand Cayman, Jaxon Cover laughed at the memory of his introduction to ice hockey and how he literally fell head over skate blades for the sport. Cover was 8 when he attend...

VANCOUVER - Head coach Jesse Marsch was using Alphonso Davies "as a decoy" after saying he expected the captain would play for Canada in Wednesday's crucial FIFA World Cup match against Switzerland. Davies, who has been sidelined with an injury, was on...

GUELPH - Defensive back Robert Priester of the Toronto Argonauts says his 2026 CFL season is over. Priester, 32, announced on social media he suffered a season-ending torn Achilles in Toronto's 44-24 road win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday after...

NEW YORK (AP) - The NHL took the first step toward expansion in Texas earlier this week, agreeing to terms with billionaire Dan Friedkin and his family to explore the feasibility of putting a franchise in Houston or Austin. Far enough fr...

WINNIPEG - The Edmonton Elks flew into town riding the high of opening their season at 2-0 for the first time since 2019. They can make it 3-0 for the first time since 2017 if they can beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Princess Auto Stadium on Thursday...

Justin Rankin believes he can do what's never been done before in the CFL. No player in league history has ever registered 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in the same season. Rankin flirted with the achievement last year, rushing for 1,013 yards whil...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Switzerland put a damper on Canada's World Cup party in Vancouver. The Swiss got goals from Rubén Vargas and Johan Manzambi to beat Canada 2-1 on Wednesday and win Group B. Now Switzerland will get a wee...

VANCOUVER - A historic moment was tinged with disappointment for Canada at the FIFA World Cup. The country earned its first-ever spot in the tournament's knockout round, but fell 2-1 to Switzerland in their group-stage finale in Vancouver on Wednesday...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Neymar arrived with Brazil and is available for the team's World Cup match against Scotland on Wednesday, another sign the superstar forward is set to make his debut at this year's tournament after missing the first two match...

TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts are adding linebacker Kevin Eiben and defensive back Carl Brazley to their all-time list. Eiben and Brazley will be inducted Aug. 22 at halftime of Toronto's game versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at BMO Field. Eiben, 46, o...

LONDON - Canadians Bianca Andreescu and Katherine Sebov beat the heat on Wednesday and moved within a win of a berth in the women's singles draw at Wimbledon. Andreescu, a former world No. 4 from Mississauga, Ont., cruised after a first-set setback in ...

EASTBOURNE - Montreal's Gabriel Diallo advanced to the quarterfinals of the Eastbourne Open tennis tournament with a 6-7 (11), 6-3, 6-2 over Argentina's Tomas Etcheverry on Wednesday. Diallo had 14 aces and saved the only break point he faced while con...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Blazers forward J.P. Hurlbert's efforts during the 2025-26 Western Hockey League (WHL) season has earned him a pair of accolades from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL).On Wednesday (June 24) morning, the 18-year-old Hurlbert was named for both the CHL's Third All-Star Team as well as the CHL's All-Ro...

Something has to give Saturday night for Nathan Rourke and Vernon Adams Jr. Rourke and the B.C. Lions (0-2) face Adams and the Calgary Stampeders (0-2) at Kelowna, B.C., with both teams still looking for their first wins of the season. The contest is b...

KAMLOOPS - Harris Hunter and Damian Hickey of the Kamloops Canoe and Kayak Club (KCKC) have been named to represent Canada at upcoming international events. Hunter, an 18-year-old kayaker, is expected to don the maple leaf in three major men's events this summer: the Pan American Canoe Sprint Championships (July 7 and...

OTTAWA - Olympic champions Camryn Rogers, Andre De Grasse, Damian Warner and Ethan Katzberg are among the decorated athletes named to Canada's athletics roster for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Commonwealth Sport Canada and Athletics Canada a...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders lost $157,005 last season, one in which the franchise captured its fifth Grey Cup championship. The deficit followed a profitable 2024-25 season in which the franchise finished $2.1 million in the black. The Roughr...

Chase Reid has tried to keep his head down and tune out the noise. As one of the top prospects heading into the NHL draft, that was always going to be an uphill struggle - especially in the social media age - with projections and opinions peppering the...

Here are the latest developments from the 2026 FIFA World Cup. All times Eastern: 8:52 p.m. Ivory Coast is expected to have striker Elye Wahi back in the lineup for tomorrow's Group E match against Curaçao in Philadelphia. Wahi, who is under investigat...

VANCOUVER - Midfielder Stephen Eustaquio will be on the bench to start Canada's FIFA World Cup game against Switzerland on Wednesday. Canada coach Jesse Marsch has midfielders Mathieu Choiniere and Nathan Saliba in his starting 11, and striker Jonatha...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Ottawa set to announce first national interest projects in territories: sources Ottawa is expected to announce today that it will begin the process of designating ...

VANCOUVER - Canada fans have tasted defeat for the first time at the 2026 World Cup after a 2-1 loss to Switzerland, on a day that started with emotional tributes to injured Canadian midfielder Ismaël Koné, then brought them down from the high of last ...

MONTREAL - Jeremy-Marie Joly says his family and friends were shocked when he told them he was abandoning engineering studies to become a priest. Sports was more important than religion in his family when he was growing up in Gatineau, Que. He played ...

As thousands of Canadian soccer fans marched towards the World Cup stadium in Vancouver ahead of the team's match against Qatar last week, the air around them took on a distinctly festive colour. Thick, continuous clouds of red-tinted smoke shrouded th...