Category Archives: Sports

NORTH BAY, Ont. - An impressive round-robin record doesn’t necessarily mean Canada’s Jennifer Jones is a lock to win a world championship for the first time in a decade. The Winnipeg team ...

MIAMI - College dropout Wayne Huizenga started with a trash hauling company, struck gold during America’s brief love affair with VHS tapes and eventually owned three professional sports teams. H...

ZURICH - Canada has moved back to fourth in the FIFA women’s rankings, matching an all-time high. The U.S. remains No. 1 ahead of England, which moved ahead of Germany into second. Canada and 20...

VANCOUVER - It’s a new league on a different continent, but for midfielder Jordon Mutch the game stays pretty much the same. Mutch spent a decade competing in the top levels of the English footb...

TOKYO - The Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer, site of the popular 1994 Winter Olympics, could be in the running to host again. Gerhard Heiberg, who headed the 1994 Lillehammer Games, told The Assoc...

Jessica Wong wasn’t seeing a Clarkson Cup championship team when she arrived in China last fall to play for Kunlun Red Star. A few months later, the defender from Baddeck, N.S., feels Red Star i...

ATLANTA - Barry Brown Jr. darted into the lane, blowing by everybody in blue, and delivered a rare burst of offence just in the nick of time. He wasn’t done, either. As Kansas State celebrated y...

Thursday’s Games NHL Edmonton 6 Ottawa 2 Toronto 5 Nashville 2 Vancouver 5 Chicago 2 Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Rangers 3 Carolina 6 Arizona 5 Columbus 4 Florida 0 Tampa Bay 7 N.Y. Islanders 6 Washingt...

CHICAGO - The Vancouver Canucks have struggled to score since rookie Brock Boeser was shelved by a back injury. They got some help Thursday night from an unlikely source. Alexander Edler scored twice ...

NASHVILLE - Auston Matthews didn’t look rusty in his return from a monthlong layoff. Matthews had a goal in his first game back from a shoulder injury that sidelined him for 10 games and the Tor...