Category Archives: Sports

WINDSOR, Ont. - A former player with the OHL Windsor Spitfires has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the washroom of a Windsor, Ont., bar in March 2013. Justice Kirk Munro...

CALGARY - Jeff Maggert will try to jumpstart his PGA Champions Tour season with his second straight Shaw Charity Classic title, but he knows history is not on his side. Maggert won last year’s S...

TORONTO - The CFL and the Saskatchewan Roughriders will be keeping a close eye on controversial defensive lineman Khalif Mitchell, league commissioner Jeffrey Orridge said Thursday. Any “inappro...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays are bringing back catcher Josh Thole. The club announced Thursday that the knuckleball specialist has been signed to a major-league contract. Thole elected to become a ...

QUEBEC - Montreal Canadiens president Geoff Molson is facing a fine after failing to renew his company’s lobbyist registration on time. Following an investigation by Quebec’s lobbyist comm...

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - South Korea’s Chella Choi was the only one ready for the wind. Choi shot a 6-under 66 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Manulife Classic. ...

TORONTO - Mike Babcock had just three days to prepare his team for its first game at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Team Canada’s head coach won’t be so pressed for time ahead of the World Cup o...

TORONTO - Benoit Huot hesitates at the mention of retirement. As the veteran Canadian swimmer heads into his fifth Paralympics, he isn’t thinking too much about how many Games he may have left, ...

ZURICH - Soccer great Franz Beckenbauer is a criminal suspect in a World Cup fraud case. Beckenbauer’s home in Austria was raided for evidence on Thursday on behalf of Swiss federal prosecutors ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Yarelys Barrios of Cuba was stripped of the silver medal in the women’s discus from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Thursday after testing positive in a reanalysis of her do...