Category Archives: Sports

PITTSBURGH - Sean Couturier did what he could to deal with the pain in his left leg, then hopped over the boards and let the adrenaline that comes with playoff hockey take care of the rest. The Philad...

NEW YORK - Florida’s Aleksander Barkov, William Karlsson of the Golden Knights and Buffalo’s Ryan O’Reilly were named the three finalists Friday for the NHL’s Lady Byng Memoria...

OTTAWA - Speed Skating Canada has fired the head coach of Canada’s long-track speedskating team. Michael Crowe went on a leave of absence a month before the Pyeongchang Olympics while the organi...

Friday’s Games NHL Playoffs First Round Winnipeg 5 Minnesota 0 (Winnipeg wins series 4-1) Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 2 (Pittsburgh leads series 3-2) Colorado 2 Nashville 1 (Nashville leads series...

NFL draft guru Mike Mayock sees Canadian defensive lineman Nathan Shepherd as a diamond in the rough. On Friday, Mayock listed Shepherd fourth on his list of the top-five interior defensive lineman pr...

MONTREAL - Eugenie Bouchard says she just wants to play some matches and enjoy being part of a team again. Canada’s Fed Cup team hopes she can also rediscover at least some of the form that prop...

TORONTO - The CFL announced Friday all nine of its teams were under the $5.15-million salary cap in 2017. As a result, the order of the league’s annual draft May 3 is unaffected. The Montreal Al...

TORONTO - Another year, another Sovereign Award as Canadian thoroughbred racing’s top trainer for Mark Casse. Casse, 57, earned a seventh straight Sovereign Award on Thursday night and the 10th ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Bill Peters has not been able to lead the Carolina Hurricanes back to the NHL playoffs and after coming up short following his fourth season with the club, announced Friday that he is ...

The Toronto Maple Leafs left themselves little room for error after consecutive ugly road losses to open their first-round playoff series with the Boston Bruins. With their backs now firmly planted ag...