Friday's Games
Corson Hopwo completed his hat trick in overtime as the Medicine Hat Tigers opened the 2020-21 Western Hockey League season with a 5-4 comeback win over the Red Deer Rebels on Friday.
CALGARY - The favourites set the tone in championship pool play Friday at the Canadian women's curling championship.
TAMPA, Fla. - After the buzzer sounded on the Toronto Raptors' victory, Kyle Lowry chased down the game ball to present to Sergio Scariolo -- a perfect ending to another bizarre night in the COVID-19 era of the NBA.
TAMPA, Fla. - Assistant coach Sergio Scariolo took charge of the Toronto Raptors on Friday night with head coach Nick Nurse and five other members of his staff sidelined due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
The Toronto Maple Leafs can see the Edmonton Oilers in their rearview mirror.
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. - With short, sure strokes of a flathead axe, firefighter Cole Gomoll methodically chopped along the edge of the SUV’s broken windshield as golf icon Tiger Woods — tangled up in his seatbelt and covered in a sheet to avoid shards of glass — waited in shock insid…
MONTREAL - Josh Brook scored the go-ahead goal at 13:39 of the third period, and the Laval Rocket edged the Manitoba Moose 4-3 on Friday in American Hockey League action
The human trafficking case brought against a former U.S. Olympics women’s gymnastics coach hours before he killed himself could signal a new approach to policing a sport already dogged by a far-reaching sexual abuse scandal involving a one-time team doctor.
CALGARY - Mark Simpson and Adam Ruzicka each had a pair of goals as the Stockton Heat downed the Toronto Marlies 8-1 on Friday in American Hockey League action.
TORONTO - Entering his ninth season with Toronto FC, Jonathan Osorio said his off-season goals were not much different than in the past.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Canadian Jeff Gustafson is halfway to his first-ever Bassmasters Elite Series victory.
TORONTO - The CFL Players' Association will conduct its 2021 annual general meeting virtually.
Canadian receiver Josh Palmer is taking a philosophical approach to not having the chance to audition at the 2021 NFL combine.
TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts have agreed to a restructured contract with American linebacker Bear Woods.
In early January, when COVID-19 numbers were climbing again, and Ontario had just hunkered down in another stay-at-home order, Melissa Bishop-Nriagu, husband Osi and their daughter Corinne, moved from Windsor, Ont., to Victoria.
ISTANBUL - Canadian striker Cyle Larin scored to help Besiktas blank Denizlispor 3-0 in Turkish SuperLig play Friday.
Marv Levy says that, at his age, he's starting to have some issues with his hearing. But the 95-year-old has no trouble recollecting his first head-coaching stint in pro football almost a half-century ago.
CALGARY - Women's hockey star Angela James, Edmonton Oilers executive Kevin Lowe and former Hockey Canada president Bill Hay have been named to the Order of Hockey in Canada.
Quebec City police say they have arrested a 54-year-old woman in connection with the case of fake Alexis Lafreniere hockey cards circulating online.
VANCOUVER - He notched his second shutout of the season Thursday night, but Mike Smith was simply happy to see his Edmonton Oilers chalk up another victory.
WINNIPEG - Despite a new face behind the bench, the misery continues for the Montreal Canadiens.
CALGARY - Hearts rookie Beth Peterson of Team Wild Card Three played like a veteran Thursday at the Canadian women's curling championship.
OTTAWA - Matt Murray and the Ottawa Senators have their longest win streak of the season.
Canadian Alexis Davis returns to action Saturday with a surgically repaired shoulder and a renewed zest for fighting.
CF Montreal lost a head coach and Major League Soccer said goodbye to a marquee name with news Thursday that Thierry Henry was stepping down.
The Canadian Elite Basketball League is pushing back the start of its 2021 season in the hopes of having fans attend games in person.
A former U.S. Olympics gymnastics coach being charged Thursday with crimes, including sexual assault, human trafficking and running a criminal enterprise is the latest fallout from the sexual abuse scandal involving former Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar.
Finally back training with teammates for the first time in months, and with an Olympic qualifying date set, boxer Mandy Bujold could see light at the end of the tunnel.
The Red Deer Rebels' official Twitter bio is a taut four-word entry that sums up the team's current situation.
TORONTO - William Nylander is used to the outside noise swirling around him in hockey's biggest market.
CALGARY - Women's curling powerhouses Kerri Einarson and Rachel Homan clash Thursday for the first time since last year's Canadian championship final.
Dustin Wolf made 36 saves, and the Stockton Heat beat the Toronto Marlies 4-2 on Wednesday for their first win of the American Hockey League season.
MIAMI - Jimmy Butler went to the foul line in the final moments of the fourth quarter Wednesday night, talking and smiling the entire time.
MONTREAL - Nathan Todd had two goals and an assist as the Manitoba Moose downed the Laval Rocket 4-2 on Wednesday in American Hockey League action.
ORLANDO - Bev Priestman leaves her first tournament in charge of Canada with a better idea of the young talent at her disposal but also some pressing questions still to be answered.
The CFL faces more challenges in its planned return for 2021 than it did last year when it was forced to cancel its season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
TAMPA, Fla. - A quick look at the Raptors schedule for the second half of the shortened NBA season had Nick Nurse already thinking about managing minutes.
Tiger Woods has played at the top level of golf five times in Canada over his remarkable career.
Longtime Canadian Open tournament director Bill Paul remembers the summer of 2000 well.
MADISON, Wis. - Hunters and trappers blew past Wisconsin's wolf kill target in less than 72 hours, forcing a premature end to a hunt that initially wasn't supposed to happen for another nine months and raising the ire of animal rights activists.
Marc Bergevin is hoping a new bench boss can get through to the slumping Montreal Canadiens.
The status of the PGA Tour's RBC Canadian Open is up in the air once again after Toronto announced the cancellation of city permits for events through July 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEW YORK - San Jose's game against the visiting Vegas Golden Knights scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed after a Sharks player entered the NHL's COVID protocol.
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says it's no secret he arrived at previous Toronto Blue Jays training camps out of shape.
VANCOUVER - Canucks forward Antoine Roussel has been fined US$5,000 by the NHL for roughing in Vancouver's 4-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.
MONTREAL - Veteran defender Laurent Ciman has returned to Montreal, where he started his MLS playing career, this time as an assistant coach.
CALGARY - The story of why the Canadian women's curling championship is named the Tournament of Hearts starts over 40 years ago with sisters drinking wine.
MONTREAL - The struggling Montreal Canadiens fired head coach Claude Julien and associate coach Kirk Muller on Wednesday following a three-game skid.
With the world still reeling in a global pandemic, Fred VanVleet is keeping the NBA all-star game in perspective.
VANCOUVER - The Edmonton Oilers clawed their way to a comeback win on Tuesday and goalie Mike Smith believes it's a result his team can truly build on.
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