Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack open their second season Sunday at Leigh Centurions, hoping to put a rocky pre-season behind them. Injuries plus the sudden and unexplained departure of star forwards Fu...

NEW YORK - It’s Super Bowl ad time again. Advertisers of all stripes are vying for the attention of the 111 million viewers expected to tune in. The goal is to be the most-talked about ad over t...

PORTLAND, Maine - Donald Crisman has more than a half-century of Super Bowl memories behind him, from taking a 24-hour train ride to Super Bowl II to seeing his beloved New England Patriots win in ove...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Despite all the attention North Korea is getting for its conciliatory gestures ahead of the South Korean Winter Olympics, it is stepping up so...

MINNEAPOLIS - Picture this: Prince taking the stage at U.S. Bank Stadium in his hometown of Minneapolis for the 2018 Super Bowl to a dazzling display of purple lights, wowing the crowd at halftime wit...

COPENHAGEN - The vice-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Friday “the situation, (in) which we now find ourselves, is very chaotic” after 28 Russian athletes had their Olympic d...

MINNEAPOLIS - Imagine Dragons were happy to perform indoors ahead of Super Bowl 52, unlike their recent outdoor gig for New Year’s Eve. The Grammy-winning rock band headlined the EA Sports Bowl ...

TORONTO - When University of Victoria basketball coach Dani Sinclair went into labour in the middle of a hard-fought playoff run, she struggled with a dilemma no male coach ever faces: should she reco...

Thursday’s Games NHL Colorado 4 Edmonton 3 (OT) Vancouver 4 Chicago 2 Toronto 4 N.Y. Rangers 0 Ottawa 2 Anaheim 1 (OT) Carolina 2 Montreal 0 Vegas 3 Winnipeg 2 (OT) Boston 3 St. Louis 1 Florida ...

VANCOUVER - The big smile on Brendan Gaunce’s face spoke volumes. Gaunce scored two goals in a game for the first time in his NHL career as the Vancouver Canucks overcome an early deficit to def...