After a long wait, some clarity finally arrived on the curling scene this week with word that a Calgary "bubble" will be used to salvage several top events this season.

RED DEER, Alta. - Alexis Lafrenière will not be going for another gold medal this winter.

DENVER - Playing for Canada's men's basketball team at the Olympics next year would be a wonderful opportunity for Jamal Murray, but the Denver Nuggets star has no idea how realistic that is at this stage.

Five trophies with Bayern Munich. And now a second Canadian Men's Player of the Year award in three years.

Durability is a key ingredient in Mikael Kingsbury's domination of men's moguls. The Canadian freestyle ski star hasn't missed races due to injury until now.

Pascal Siakam wants to rediscover his love for the game.

Ottawa has been named host city for the 2026 world men's and women's wheelchair basketball championships.

Golf helped make Kevin Blue who he is today, so it's only fitting that he returned to the sport that was so influential for him.

TORONTO - Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment's giant kitchen is open again.

HOUSTON - Russell Westbrook is headed to the Washington Wizards and John Wall is moving to the Houston Rockets in a significant swap of point guards — one an MVP, the other a No. 1 overall draft pick — just weeks before the season starts.

The potential for the Toronto Blue Jays to have a memorable off-season is there. Now it appears to be a matter of waiting for the first big dominoes to fall so the action can really begin.

PITTSBURGH - Mike Tomlin isn't one for excuses. Even as COVID-19 wreaked havoc with his team's schedule, pushing their matchup with Baltimore from Thanksgiving night to middle of the afternoon in the middle of the week in the middle of a pandemic, the longtime Pittsburgh Steelers coach refus…

CALGARY - A potentially lengthy stay in Alberta, and trying to defend a national men's curling championship in front of zero fans, are thoughts circulating in Brad Gushue's mind.

Maxime Crepeau's diving save for Canada against Iceland has earned the 26-year-old goalkeeper the 2020 Allstate Canadian National Teams Good Hands Award.

NEW YORK - The NBA said Wednesday that 48 players have tested positive for the coronavirus since testing resumed last week.

TAMPA, Fla. - A week before the 2016 NBA draft, DeAndre Bembry's brother was shot and killed in their hometown of Charlotte.

LOS ANGELES - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86.

Daniel Joseph is making quite the first impression at North Carolina State University.

When Nick Nurse coached Derby of the British Basketball League back in the early 1990s, the team could only afford to book the Moorways Centre practice hall two nights a week.

Pro wrestling trailblazer Pat Patterson has died at the age of 79.

Hamilton's Forge FC is headed to Honduras for another attempt to secure a berth in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League, the confederation's top-tier club competition.

Montreal Alouettes running back Shaquille Murray-Lawrence is used to psyching himself up to sprint down a field, evading a crush of muscled men the entire way.

MONTREAL - Barron Miles and Luc Brodeur-Jourdain will have added responsibilities with the Montreal Alouettes in 2021.

Josh Dueck knows the role of chef de mission for Canada's Paralympic team during these unparalleled times comes with huge and unique challenges.

Armanti Edwards is a receiver by trade but a quarterback at heart.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Forge FC lost a heartbreaker to Haiti's Arcahaie FC in Scotiabank Champions League quarterfinal play Tuesday, conceding a cheap goal on a goalkeeping blunder in regulation time and then losing a penalty shootout.

CALGARY - Curling Canada wants Calgary's Canada Olympic Park to be a curling hub for the season's top events.

TORONTO - Greg Vanney says he was "handed the keys to what was a Ferrari in development" when he took over Toronto FC in August 2014.

Toronto FC will be going after goals in searching for a third designated player.

On the Toronto Raptors' first full day in their temporary home away from home, the state of Florida hit an inglorious milestone, surpassing one million COVID-19 cases.

Levi Simpson and his horse Stetson are about to trample the turf where the Los Angeles Dodgers hoisted the World Series trophy.

TORONTO - New England Revolution sophomore Tajon Buchanan and Canadian under-20 stalwart Jade Rose have been named the 2020 Canadian Youth International Players of the Year.

Rugby League Cares, the official charity of the Rugby Football League, has set up a fund for Toronto Wolfpack players suffering because of the transatlantic team's collapse.

MONTREAL - Zorhan Bassong wants to be part of building something new with the Montreal Impact.

MONTREAL - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has a plan A and a plan B to resume its season in mid-January, and its commissioner said Tuesday that cancelling its schedule isn't an option.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission says it plans to address the issue of anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosse.

ST. MARYS, Ont. - Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play commentator Dan Shulman has been named the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's 2020 Jack Graney Award.

CANMORE, Alta. - The Canadian world championship cross-country ski trials and the Canadian Ski Championships have been cancelled as part of Nordiq Canada's changes to its 2021 calendar caused by COVID-19 pandemic.

After a season that has taken it from Hamilton to Charlottetown, El Salvador and Panama, Forge FC hopes the Dominican Republic is the last stop on the way to the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League.

Veteran defender David Edgar, who turned heads with a highlight-reel goal for Newcastle United as a teenager and went on to captain Canada, has announced his retirement effective the end of the year.

CHICAGO - Toronto FC striker Ayo Akinola has been rewarded for his breakthrough MLS season with a call-up to the U.S. national team.

Toronto FC is looking for a new designated player, opting not to pick up the option on Pablo Piatti.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League says it will not hold any games until early January because of COVID-19 issues.

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps are keeping much of their roster in tact next season, but are still working to secure the services of two veterans long term.

Ottawa Redblacks receiver Brad Sinopoli fully understands the challenge Kendall Hinton faced Sunday with the Denver Broncos.

Mo Farsi added to his trophy cabinet Monday when he was named Canadian Futsal Player of the Year.

MONTREAL - Romell Quioto feels like he's finally found happiness with the Montreal Impact, so when the opportunity came to cement his future with the club, the star forward jumped on it.

Six teams from the second-tier Betfred Championship have applied to fill the Super League void left by the departure of the financially troubled Toronto Wolfpack.

Janine Beckie and Atiba Hutchinson have been named Canada Soccer’s Players of the Month for November.