Category Archives: Sports

SEATTLE - Police allege a Vancouver man ran naked onto a baseball field during a game in Seattle because his friends bet him $89 dollars he wouldn’t do it. The Seattle City Attorney’s offi...

BEIJING - Wayne Gretzky has been named a global ambassador for Beijing’s Kunlun Red Star as the Chinese capital seeks to boost the profile of hockey domestically ahead of hosting the Winter Olym...

TORONTO - Denis Shapovalov didn’t hide his disappointment when he saw that his Wednesday afternoon match against Fabio Fognini had been moved from centre court to the grand stand. Turns out the ...

The three Dufour-Lapointe sisters who have been inseparable in freestyle skiing will be down to two. Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, the eldest at age 29, announced her retirement Wednesday after a decade on ...

The good news for Johnny Manziel and the Montreal Alouettes is, theoretically speaking, there’s nowhere to go but up. Manziel’s first CFL regular-season appearance last week was one to for...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps won’t have to worry about the Atomic Ant in the first leg of the Canadian Championship final. A Toronto FC spokesman has confirmed that Sebastian Giovinco did...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Nicholas Bett, a Kenyan runner who won the 2015 world championship title in the 400-meter hurdles, was killed in an early-morning car crash Wednesday in the country’s famed high...

Tuesday’s Games MLB American League Boston 10 Toronto 7 (10 innings) Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 3 Texas 11 Seattle 4 Minnesota 3 Cleveland 2 N.Y. Yankees 4 Chicago White Sox 3 (13 innings) L.A. Angel...

MEXICO CITY - For a brief moment it looked like Canada had a chance to capture gold at the FIBA under-18 Women’s Americas Championship. But a strong start quickly burnt out as the United States ...

EDMONTON - With a resounding win on opening night already in the books at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup, the Canadians expected a tougher test against Slovakia at Rogers Place on Tuesday. They got it, and th...