Tag Archives: Sports

CALGARY - Two-time Olympic gold medallist Haley Irwin has announced her retirement from the Canadian women's hockey team. The 31-year-old forward from Thunder Bay, Ont., won Olympic gold in 2010 and 2...

TORONTO - Woodbine Entertainment Group and TSN are partnering on a weekly horse-racing show. Racing Night Live will debut June 11, Woodbine Entertainment announced Wednesday. The two-hour broadcasts w...

New Jersey Devils defenceman P.K. Subban says he's donated US$50,000 to a GoFundMe page set up for George Floyd's daughter, and that the NHL has matched the pledge. Subban announced the donation in a ...

The NBA has told the National Basketball Players Association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league's board of governors on Thursday, a person with knowledge of th...

Canadian featherweight Felicia (Feenom) Spencer is no stranger to fighting legends. Last July, she turned heads in going the distance in a loss - her first as a pro - to hard-hitting Cris Cyborg, a fo...

Major League Soccer and its players' union reached an agreement that paves the way for a summer tournament in Florida after the season was suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic. The deal was announced by...

MUNICH - Canadian international Alphonso Davies says his family's trials have left their mark, but in a good way. The experiences taught the 19-year-old budding Bayern Munich star to make the bes...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Johnny Majors, the coach of Pittsburgh's 1976 national championship team and a former coach and star player at Tennessee, has died. He was 85. Majors died Wednesday at home, accordi...

NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid have added their voices to the chorus of athletes condemning racial injustice. Crosby, captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins, released a statement through ...

Canadian linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The Oklahoma State University player attended a rally in Oklahoma protesting racial injustice and police ...