Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - As the second-youngest captain in Toronto Maple Leafs history, Darryl Sittler is well aware of the challenges that accompany the high-profile role - and he’s confident Connor McDavid i...

ESPOO, Finland - Canadian figure skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are in first place after the pairs short program at the ISU Challenger Series Finlandia Trophy. Duhamel, of Lively, Ont., and R...

ARLINGTON, Texas - It was a beatdown but this time the bad blood stayed under the surface. Toronto rocked Cole Hamels for five runs in the third inning and a near flawless Marco Estrada delivered 8 1/...

MIAMI - Fear of the damage that powerful Hurricane Matthew may cause prompted two college football postponements Thursday, and had the NFL plotting just-in-case scenarios for games scheduled in Tampa ...

It’s pretty well impossible to go back-to-back in the west. The Detroit Red Wings (2009) were the last team to repeat as champions of the NHL’s top conference, the only such squad to do so...

TORONTO - Is it possible to ingest cocaine by kissing someone who has just snorted the powerful stimulant drug? Enough that its chemical signature would show up on an athlete’s doping tests? Tha...

TORONTO - Woodbine Racetrack has been very good to trainer Mike Maker. The 47-year-old native of Garden City, Mich., has registered six stakes victories at the track, including this year’s Queen...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators will play their final pre-season game Friday against Buffalo with what could be their opening night roster. That group will include forward Ryan Dzingel, a pleasant surpri...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks had a perfect record and were cruising in the CFL East when they met the winless Saskatchewan Roughriders in Week 5 of the season. An upset loss in Regina sent the Redbla...

The Pittsburgh Penguins looked nothing like a threat to win the Eastern Conference, let alone a Stanley Cup, when Mike Johnston was fired in mid-December. That changed when Mike Sullivan spurred a tur...