Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley says Toronto is his favourite city in the world and that the Raptors are the best team in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. The respect is more tha...

MONTREAL - New Impact coach Remi Garde wants his club to play with more purpose and resolve after a flat performance in their season opener. Garde and the new-look Montreal Impact are on the road to p...

TORONTO - Canadian small forward R.J. Barrett was named the 2018 Naismith high school boys’ player of the year on Friday. Barrett, from Mississauga, Ont., led Florida’s Montverde Academy t...

REGINA - If Brad Gushue doesn’t seem like he’s feeling pressure at the Canadian men’s curling championship, that’s because he isn’t compared to a year ago. The skip was u...

TORONTO - Morgan Rielly enjoys seeing Pittsburgh Penguins stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin spin their magic - when the Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman isn’t on the ice trying to contain them...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos extended the contract of American defensive lineman Da’Quan Bowers through the 2019 season Friday. Bowers had 17 tackles, one special-teams tackle, seven sacks an...

TORONTO - Darren’s Fortune has quickly fit in at Woodbine Racetrack. Less than a week after arriving there, the two-year-old thoroughbred has already had a calming influence on Out of Cake, a th...

TORONTO - The NHL has unveiled its first foray into esports - the 2018 NHL Gaming World Championship. The US$100,000 tournament will feature separate online qualifying events in Canada, the U.S. and E...

VANCOUVER - Captain Ghislaine Landry and Justin Douglas have been named Rugby Canada’s sevens players of the year. Landry led the women’s circuit with 269 points in 2016-17 when Canada won...

BUCHEON, Korea, Republic Of - When South Korea previously held the Olympics in 1988, Kim Paolo and some 150 other poor urban residents spent months that year hiding in huge graves of their own making....