Tag Archives: Sports

NBC will shut down the NBC Sports Network at the end of the year. NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua announced the move Friday in an internal memo to staff. "At the conclusion of 2021, we have decided ...

Strange times in sport create unorthodox decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic interrupting training and decimating the competition calendar led Swimming Canada to invoke the unforeseen circumstances claus...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American quarterback Tom Flacco. Flacco joins the Roughriders after two strong seasons at Towson University in Maryland. In his senior year, Flacco wa...

KNIGSSEE, Germany - Canada's Jane Channell slid to a bronze medal Friday at a World Cup skeleton event. Channell, from North Vancouver, B.C., finished tied for third with World Cup leader Janine Flock...

Curling Canada has decided to use the national ranking system as its selection criteria for the final wild-card berths at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and Tim Hortons Brier. The announcement clea...

ATLANTA - His name is all over the baseball record book and, indeed, Hank Aaron could do it all. Sure, he's remembered mostly for dethroning the Babe to become baseball's home run king on the way to 7...

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Canadian women won a World Cup speedskating gold medal in team pursuit in their first international races in months Friday. Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann and...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs will be missing two forwards in Friday night's rematch against the visiting Edmonton Oilers. Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe says star centre Auston Matthews will sit...

Players and coaches across the NHL have talked a lot about embracing change and new normals in this most unusual of seasons. The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it an abbreviated schedule, realigned di...

TOKYO - IOC President Thomas Bach and local organizers are pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled. Now set to open July 23, the Tokyo Games were postponed 10 ...