Category Archives: Sports
Rasmussen leads Canada past Finland 4-3 in fifth-place game at Ivan Hlinka
BRECLAV, Czech Republic - Michael Rasmussen scored the winner with 8:36 to go as Canada’s under-18 team finished the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup with a 4-3 win over Finland on Friday in the fifth-p...
Aug 12, 2016
CP NewsAlert: United States eliminated by Sweden in women's soccer
BRASILIA, Brazil - United States eliminated by Sweden in Olympic women’s soccer quarter-final after penalty shoot-out. More coming. The Associated Press 2016 The Canadian Press
Aug 12, 2016

Canadian former champ Bute says positive test came from contaminated supplement
MONTREAL - Former boxing champion Lucian Bute said Friday that a supplement he took to help him sleep and recover from training contained the banned substance Ostarine and led to his positive doping t...
Aug 12, 2016

Pogba banned for United's 1st game of Premier League season
MANCHESTER, England - World-record signing Paul Pogba will not be available for Manchester United’s first game of the Premier League season as he is serving a ban carried over from his time at J...
Aug 12, 2016
Jerry Sandusky taking stand in bid to overturn conviction
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Jerry Sandusky plans to take the stand at an appeals hearing in a fresh chance to prove his claim he was wrongly convicted four years ago of sexually abusing 10 boys. The former Penn...
Aug 12, 2016

Swimmer Chen Xinyi of China tests positive at Rio Olympics
RIO DE JANEIRO - A female Chinese swimmer has tested positive for a banned substance at the Rio Olympics, China’s swimming association said Friday - the first competitor in the sport to fail a t...
Aug 12, 2016
Canadian rowers Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee win Olympic silver
RIO DE JANEIRO - Canadian rowers Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee have won a silver medal in the women’s lightweight double sculls at the Rio Olympics. The Victoria duo raced to a time of sev...
Aug 12, 2016
Penny Oleksiak captures Canada's first gold medal of Rio Summer Games
RIO DE JANEIRO - Penny Oleksiak continues to solidify herself as a teenage swimming sensation. The 16-year-old from Toronto tied for gold in the women’s 100-metre freestyle on Thursday at the Ri...
Aug 12, 2016
Edmonton Eskimos beat Montreal Alouettes 23-12 to snap three-game skid
EDMONTON - When the Edmonton Eskimos couldn’t get it going with their offence, their defence stepped up. Deon Lacey had a six-yard interception return touchdown with less than a minute to play a...
Aug 11, 2016
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games CFL Edmonton 23 Montreal 12 — MLB American League Baltimore 9 Oakland 6 Cleveland 14 L.A. Angels 4 N.Y. Yankees 4 Boston 2 Kansas City 2 Chicago White Sox 1 Houston 15 Min...
Aug 11, 2016