Category Archives: Sports

MONTREAL - Canadian hockey officials don’t want great swaths of empty seats at the Bell Centre at this year’s world junior hockey championship. Hockey Canada president Tom Renney hopes low...

Corey Seager won the NL Rookie of the Year award unanimously. Michael Fulmer took the AL honour - and that vote wasn’t all that close, either. Seager and Fulmer were announced as the winners Mon...

TORONTO - Sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion have rejected qualifying offers from the Toronto Blue Jays. They had one week to decide whether to accept or decline the one-year offer worth US$...

WINNIPEG - It was a sleep-deprived group of Blue Bombers who cleaned out their lockers Monday. Quarterback Matt Nichols, who’s a pending free agent, said he had difficulty falling asleep as he r...

TORONTO - Canada has dropped one place to No. 3 in the world women’s rugby rankings. England replaced the Canadians at No. 2 with New Zealand remaining No. 1. France and Ireland complete World R...

TORONTO - While Toronto FC is enjoying its most successful season on the pitch, the MLS franchise won’t make money this season. But the bottom line has been boosted by the current playoff run an...

OTTAWA - There are positives in the Ottawa Senators’ game right now, but offence isn’t one of them. Ottawa has gone nine straight games scoring two goals or less, going 1-for-26 on the pow...

NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan was named Eastern Conference player of the week on Monday while Houston Rockets guard James Harden took the Western Conference honour. DeRozan led all NB...

CHICAGO - Folk singer Steve Goodman’s “Go Cubs Go” about his beloved Chicago Cubs is a hit decades after he died - and months after his relatives sold the rights to his song collecti...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - When the city of Glendale backed out of an arena lease deal with the Arizona Coyotes last year, it put the future of the franchise in doubt yet again. Turns out, Glendale may have do...