Tag Archives: Sports

SEATTLE - Lloyd Johnston and Shaun Funk arrived in Seattle from Vancouver by train Wednesday wearing rival baseball caps, but the two friends said they're only a "little conflicted." Johnston, with th...

EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports. His mother says teachers ...

There's more than 4,000 kilometres between the home ballparks of the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners. However, that huge travel distance for the teams to do battle in the American League Ch...

OTTAWA - Mark Carney has received more than a dozen gifts from world leaders since becoming prime minister - everything from Herms ties and crystal bowls to a sculpture of Winston Churchill. But the g...

Jasmine Mander, the former Canadian assistant coach handed a one-year ban by FIFA for her role in the Paris Olympic drone-spying scandal, has broken her silence. In a first-person account on The Playe...

EDMONTON - High school football players sidelined as a result of the Alberta teachers strike are getting some gridiron help from the CFL's Edmonton Elks. The strike, which enters Day 3 on Wednesday, m...

EDMONTON - It appears Connor McDavid will lead the Edmonton Oilers for the foreseeable future. Multiple media reports said Monday that McDavid, the Oilers' superstar captain, had reached an extension ...

The Saskatoon Berries had a phenomenal season in 2025, and the team's head coach is being recognized for his leadership. Joe Carnahan was named 2025 Coach of the Year by the Western Canadian Baseball ...

VANCOUVER - A woman has filed a lawsuit against former NHL player Willie Mitchell and a resort in Tofino, B.C., alleging she was sexually assaulted by the one-time Vancouver Canuck while she was "extr...

MONTREAL - Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have created a concept for a parachute inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, one that engineers hope could be used in everything from humanitarian ...