Category Archives: Sports

VANCOUVER - With their hopes of making this year’s playoffs hovering between slim and none, the Vancouver Canucks have turned their focus to the future by trading two of their veteran players fo...

ALBUFEIRA, Portugal - Christine Sinclair scored in the 90th minute as Canada’s women’s soccer team opened its defence of its Algarve Cup title with a dramatic 1-0 win over Denmark on Wedne...

CALGARY - Curtis Lazar’s hockey career needs a jumpstart. He believes the Calgary Flames can apply the booster cables. The 22-year-old forward from Salmon Arm, B.C., was the centrepiece of Calga...

You know it’s a slow trade deadline day in the NHL when the biggest name dealt is a 39-year-old with eight goals this season. Headed for the Los Angeles Kings, Jarome Iginla was the highest prof...

TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Lightning have acquired defenceman Mark Streit from the Philadelphia Flyers for centre Valtteri Filppula and two draft picks. Philadelphia receives a 2017 fourth-round pick...

BOSTON - The real killer of two men in a hail of gunfire at a stoplight was not former NFL star Aaron Hernandez but rather the government’s star witness in his double murder trial, his attorney ...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens have acquired forward Dwight King from the Los Angeles Kings for a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2018 NHL draft. King provides the Canadiens a dependable check...

TORONTO - Former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre is starting his comeback with a bang - against UFC middleweight title-holder Michael Bisping. The two will meet for the 185-pound crown in the ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Kings have acquired veteran winger Jarome Iginla from the Colorado Avalanche for a conditional 2018 fourth-round pick. The 39-year-old Iginla joins his fifth NHL team for...

BOSTON - Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez misinterpreted a brief encounter at a Boston nightclub involving a spilled drink as a sign of disrespect and became furious, later gunning d...