OTTAWA - The Canadian women's volleyball team dropped to 1-1 in Nations League action with a loss to the Netherlands on Thursday. The hosts fell 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-15, 25-23) to the Dutch at the Arena at TD Place in Ottawa after opening with a five-sets victory over Bulgaria. The Netherlands, ranked eighth in the wo...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Tyrese Haliburton and the never-say-die Indiana Pacers pulled off yet another last-second comeback, this time on the NBA's biggest stage. Haliburton's 21-foot jumper with 0.3 seconds left gave Indiana its first and only lead of the game, and the Pacers stunned the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-110 on T...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders won the CFL's first game of the 2025 season, but it was a costly 31-26 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks. The Roughriders lost four starters to injury, including three in the first 17 minutes of Thursday's game. Receiver Kian Schaffer-Baker appeared to injure his left ankle, tailba...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - NiJaree Canady scattered six hits and pitched her way out of a seventh-inning jam, and Texas Tech forced a decisive third game in the Women's College World Series with a 4-3 victory over Texas on Thursday night. The Game 3 showdown on Friday matches two teams looking for their first national title....

CALGARY - Calgary's Wild FC held off the Halifax Tides 3-2 on Thursday in the Northern Super League. Wild (3-2-2) scored three first-half goals before the winless Tides (0-5-1) countered with two late in the second. Calgary extended its undefeated run to four straight games with two wins and two draws in that span. Wil...

CALGARY - Marcus Crandell has signed a one-day contract with the Calgary Stampeders so the 51-year-old can officially retire a member of the club. Crandell quarterbacked the Stampeders to a Grey Cup victory in 2001 in the first of his four seasons in Calgary. "To the Calgary Stampeders organization, thank you for ...

CALEDON - You wouldn't know that Hunter Thomson was playing his first professional round of golf. It certainly didn't feel any different to him. The 21-year-old from Calgary fired a 3-under 67 on Thursday at the RBC Canadian Open. A standout collegiate player for the University of Michigan, Thomson officially turned pr...

TORONTO - Catcher Tyler Heineman has made the most of his opportunities in a backup role with the Toronto Blue Jays this season. He was at it again Thursday with a two-hit, three-RBI performance that helped Toronto to a 9-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies. Heineman's seventh multi-hit performance over 20 games this s...

TORONTO - Kris Knoblauch pushed back at the notion his team had been bullied in last year's Stanley Cup final. The Edmonton Oilers head coach also agreed the group is better suited to face the Florida Panthers some 11 1/2 months later. "We're more physical team," he said. "We're bigger, we're stronger.&q...

VANCOUVER - There have been a lot of firsts for Holly Ward this year - her first game as a professional soccer player, her first call up to Canada's senior women's team. And on Tuesday, Ward became the first Northern Super League player to score for the national squad as the Canadian women downed Haiti 3-1 in a friendl...

TORONTO - Bo Bichette hit a two-run homer and Chris Bassitt threw seven strong innings as the Toronto Blue Jays dumped the Philadelphia Phillies 9-1 on Thursday afternoon at Rogers Centre. Myles Straw and Tyler Heineman drove in three runs apiece for the Blue Jays (33-29), who took the rubber game of the three-game ser...

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - Lamine Yamal won the battle of Ballon d'Or contenders on Thursday by scoring twice as Spain eclipsed France 5-4 in their Nations League semifinal. The 17-year-old Yamal outshone French counterparts Désiré Doué and Ousmane Dembélé as Spain initially ran riot a...

The hot-button topic of whether NHL teams based in states without income tax have an advantage is well and alive again. The Panthers' third straight trip to the Stanley Cup final means a team from the state of Florida has competed for hockey's biggest prize six straight years, and has won three of the last five. In add...

MONTREAL - Tyrice Beverette has some unfinished business after what transpired last year. The Montreal Alouettes star linebacker watched the Toronto Argonauts hoist their 19th Grey Cup to end last season. Beverette knows that could have been his team - if not for a string of mistakes. "We all know in this locker r...

EDMONTON - Kasperi Kapanen cut through the neutral zone, knifed past a pair of flat-footed defenders, avoided a desperate poke check - and then chimed the puck off Sergei Bobrovsky's left post. The Edmonton Oilers winger came within centimetres of penning a dramatic overtime ending to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final. H...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps say "a significant number" of players and staff are dealing with a gastrointestinal illness after visiting Mexico for the CONCACAF Champions Cup final. The Major League Soccer team cancelled a planned training session on Wednesday and held a modified individual session for ...

TORONTO - For the 30th-ranked Canadian men, Saturday's matchup with No. 25 Ukraine at the inaugural Canadian Shield Tournament in Toronto is a chance to test themselves against elite European opposition. But for many in the stands at BMO Field and back home in war-torn Ukraine, the game is much more. More than three ye...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin are taking their bromance to the next level. The four-time NFL MVP ended months of "will he or won't he" speculation by informing Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers he plans to join the team for the 2025 season, a person with knowledge of the decision told The A...

VANCOUVER - Newly minted Vancouver Canucks head coach Adam Foote is rounding out his coaching staff with three new additions. The team announced Thursday that former Chicago Blackhawks assistant coach Kevin Dean, former American Hockey League head coach Brett McLean and former director of player personnel Scott Young h...

TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts squad head coach Ryan Dinwiddie led to a 2024 Grey Cup win will be vastly different than the one tasked with defending the title. Toronto visits the Montreal Alouettes on Friday in the season opener for both teams. But the Argos will be minus seven defensive starters, along with quarterb...

PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars have signed Kamloops native Cohen Baker to a WHL Scholarship and Development Agreement.The 15-year-old Baker was the Cougars first round pick in the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft, and he was taken 17th overall. Baker tallied 24 goals and 64 points in 33 games for the Burnaby Winter ...

CALEDON - Taylor Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont., has a share of the clubhouse lead in the first round of the RBC Canadian Open. He was tied with Americans Alex Smalley and Paul Peterson at 5-under 65 in the morning wave. Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., the 2023 winner of the men's national golf championship, was a sh...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers have acquired a pair of draft picks in exchange for defenceman Kaden Meyer.Meyer, a 17-year-old Delta native, was traded to the Calgary Hitmen in exchange for a fourth round pick in 2028 and a sixth round pick in 2026.Drafted by the Blazers in the sixth round, 124th overall in the 2023 W...

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman become co-owners of the Australia SailGP team on Thursday. The "Deadpool & Wolverine" stars joined driver and CEO Tom Slingsby in leading the team's rebrand after several successful seasons, winning three championships in its four seasons. The team will be called the BONDS F...

KAMLOOPS - Fastpitch heat is blanketing Charles Anderson Stadium. The men's under-23 Softball Canada team will square off against Chase-based STK Fastball on Thursday (June 5), a 7:30 p.m. start at Charles Anderson. "We've levelled up this year and brought in a lot of international players from Australia, New Zeal...

EDMONTON - Canadian rock legends Triumph will reunite for a three-song set ahead of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday. The Mississauga power trio - Rik Emmett, Gil Moore and Mike Levine - rose to fame in the late '70s and '80s with hits like "Lay It on the Line." The song gained a new wave of attentio...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Professional Women's Hockey League team continued to add to its initial roster Thursday by signing goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer to a two-year contract. Maschmeyer spent the last two seasons with the Ottawa Charge. She was one of the franchise's three foundational signings in the PWHL's inaugur...

PARIS (AP) - No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka ended Iga Swiatek's 26-match French Open unbeaten streak and reached the final in Paris for the first time by using her pure power to dominate down the stretch and win their semifinal 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 on Thursday. Sabalenka's victory prevented Swiatek from becoming the first w...