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Canada takes 99-87 win over Argentina in World Cup qualifying
VICTORIA - Canada's national men's basketball team responded to a solid test in defeating world No. 7 Argentina 99-87 at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Thursday night. Coach Nick Nurse's charges rem...
Aug 25, 2022
Blue Jays survive 9th, win 6-5 in 10th to sweep Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) - Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano pitched his way out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the ninth inning at Fenway Park. Then he had to shut the Red Sox down one more time. "I kind of tried ...
Aug 25, 2022
Blue Bombers top Stampeders 31-29 in tightly-contested historic win
WINNIPEG - Zach Collaros threw for a pair of touchdowns and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' defence played tough when it mattered in a historic 31-29 victory over the Calgary Stampeders on Thursday. The Bo...
Aug 25, 2022
Blue Jays survive 9th, win 6-5 in 10th to sweep Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) - Automatic runner Cavan Biggio slid under the tag to score the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Boston 6-5 on Thursday night to complete a three-game sweep ...
Aug 25, 2022
Scheffler starts with Tour Championship lead and expands it
ATLANTA (AP) - Masters champion Scottie Scheffler might have had a roller coaster of an opening round Thursday at the Tour Championship if only he had been paying attention to the scoreboards. Scheffl...
Aug 25, 2022
Canada's Szeryk starts CP Women's Open with one of her best rounds of the LPGA season
OTTAWA - One of the best rounds of Maddie Szeryk's LPGA Tour season could not have come at a better time. Szeryk, from London, Ont., shot a 4-under 67 on Thursday in the first round of the CP Women's ...
Aug 25, 2022
Testimony of Meadows, Powell sought in Ga. election probe
ATLANTA (AP) - The prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the f...
Aug 25, 2022
Judge puts hold on North Dakota trigger law banning abortion
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A judge on Thursday again blocked a trigger law banning abortion in North Dakota as he weighs arguments from the state's lone abortion clinic that the law violates the state constit...
Aug 25, 2022
Nurse makes video-game splash for women's hockey as world championship gets underway
HERNING, Denmark - Sarah Nurse says the timing couldn't be better to be the first woman to grace the cover of EA Sports' NHL 23. The 27-year-old from Hamilton joined Anaheim Ducks centre Trevor Zegras...
Aug 25, 2022
Russian 'architect' of Ukraine child abduction scheme sanctioned by Canada
OTTAWA - Canada has sanctioned a Russian woman whom the foreign affairs minister's office alleges is the architect of a scheme to abduct Ukrainian children and facilitate their adoption into Russian h...
Aug 25, 2022