Category Archives: Sports

Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey had tried to make light of his team’s impossibly tough two-game stretch. “The computer that spit out the schedule, I’m going to find it and break it...

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says the team’s decision not to stay at Donald Trump-branded hotels in New York and Chicago was made before the presidential election. The billionaire technolog...

TORONTO - On Tuesday night, a previously-taped David Blaine ABC special showed Toronto-born rapper Drake and Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry reacting in horrified awe to a magic trick. O...

CALGARY - Canada’s bobsleigh team has gone from thin to fat in the space of a year. There wasn’t enough brakemen meeting domestic standards a year ago to start the World Cup season with mo...

OTTAWA - Veteran quarterback Henry Burris knows many people aren’t favouring the Ottawa Redblacks to win the Eastern Final this weekend and that’s fine with him. The Redblacks host the Edm...

NEW YORK - Max Scherzer celebrated aboard a boat off the British Virgin Islands, doused by college pals on a floating party. Rick Porcello enjoyed the moment at his parents’ home in New Jersey, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian judge has released former IOC member Patrick Hickey on bail of 1.5 million reals ($500,000) so he can seek medical treatment outside Brazil. The judicial order was publish...

TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos has a lateral meniscus tear in his right knee and will be sidelined indefinitely. General manager Steve Yzerman announced the diagnosis Wednesd...

International Ice Hockey Federation President Rene Fasel said he had a “good discussion” Wednesday with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players Association Executive Director Don Feh...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is honouring actors Robert DeNiro, Cicely Tyson, Tom Hanks and Robert Redford with the nation’s highest civilian honour. They are among 21 people Obama plans ...