Category Archives: Sports
Raptors' DeRozan returns against Orlando after missing 3 games with ankle injury
TORONTO - DeMar DeRozan returned to the Toronto Raptors’ lineup on Sunday, after missing three games with a sprained right ankle. The three-time all-star was slated to start against the visiting...
Jan 29, 2017
Patrick, Hischier in the spotlight at Canadian Top Prospects Game
QUEBEC - There will be 40 players dressed for the Canadian junior Top Prospects Game but most eyes will on only two of them - Brandon Wheat Kings centre Nolan Patrick and Halifax Mooseheads forward Ni...
Jan 29, 2017
Toronto Wolfpack star Fuifui Moimoi has Twitter account compromised
Toronto Wolfpack forward Fuifui Moimoi had a rough social media night. The 37-year-old Moimoi, one of the fledgling rugby league team’s highest-profile signings, had his Twitter account compromi...
Jan 29, 2017
Canadian men finish fourth, find their stride in Wellington Sevens
There have been more valleys than peaks of late for the Canadian men’s rugby sevens team. But Canada climbed high at the Wellington Sevens on the weekend. The Canadians, who started the season w...
Jan 29, 2017
McDavid believes NHL should be at 2018 Olympics: '100 per cent they should go'
LOS ANGEGLES, Calif. - Add Connor McDavid to the list of players urging the NHL to reconsider its current position on the 2018 Olympics. “NHL players should be there and I certainly hope they ar...
Jan 29, 2017
U.S. soccer captain criticizes Trump travel ban, says he is 'sad and embarrassed'
TORONTO - U.S. soccer captain Michael Bradley says he is “sad and embarrassed” by President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Bradley, who is also Toronto FC’s skipper, took to Instag...
Jan 29, 2017
Cook beats Butler with seventh round TKO for light middleweight title
MONTREAL - Brandon Cook scored a stunning victory over Steven Butler when he sent the promising light middleweight to the canvas at the end of the seventh round, sparking a melee among some of the 5,5...
Jan 29, 2017
FA Cup to have 2 non-league teams in last 16
MANCHESTER, England - The FA Cup threw up its latest heartwarming story line on Sunday when Sutton United beat second-tier Leeds 1-0 to ensure there would be two non-league teams in the fifth round fo...
Jan 29, 2017
Somalia-born Farah troubled by Trump's travel ban
Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, saying Sunday the temporary travel ban “seems to have made me an alien” and left ...
Jan 29, 2017
Federer beats Nadal in epic Aussie final to win 18th major
MELBOURNE, Australia - So here was Roger Federer, down a break in the fifth set in a Grand Slam final. Across the net was his nemesis, Rafael Nadal, the left-handed Spaniard he hadn’t been able ...
Jan 29, 2017