Category Archives: Sports

Tarasenko, Giroux help lift Senators to 5-3 comeback win over Flyers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Vladimir Tarasenko and Claude Giroux scored third-period goals and the Ottawa Senators came back to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 on Sunday in Shane Pinto's return to the line...
Jan 21, 2024

Flames forward Dillon Dube on indefinite leave to attend to mental health
Calgary Flames forward Dillon Dube has been granted an indefinite leave to attend to his mental health, the team announced Sunday. The 25-year-old from Golden, B.C., is under the care of professionals...
Jan 21, 2024

Dricus Du Plessis wins middleweight title after gruelling war of attrition at UFC 297
TORONTO - Middleweight champion Sean Strickland and challenger Dricus (Stillknocks) Du Plessis had promised their UFC 297 showdown would be a war. "To the death," crowed Strickland before the fight. I...
Jan 21, 2024

Canada's Dabrowski advances to women's doubles quarters at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe moved on to the women's doubles quarterfinals on Sunday. The duo defeated China's Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo 4-6, 6-1...
Jan 21, 2024

Shiffrin gets career win 95 in first World Cup slalom after season-ending injury for rival Vlhova
JASNA, Slovakia (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin earned her record-extending career win 95 by triumphing in a women's World Cup slalom Sunday, a day after the American ski star's main rival sustained a season-...
Jan 21, 2024

German skier Strasser takes Kitzbuehel slalom for 1st win in 2 years. Feller leads season standings
KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) - German skier Linus Strasser got down on his knees and kissed the snow on an Austrian slope he has known since he was a child, with his wife Maria and their one-year-old daug...
Jan 21, 2024

Challenger Dricus du Plessis wins split decision over Sean Strickland at UFC 297
TORONTO - South African challenger Dricus (Stillknocks) Du Plessis dethroned middleweight champion Sean Strickland, winning a split decision after a five-round gruelling battle in the main event of UF...
Jan 20, 2024

Oilers win 13th straight by dousing Flames 3-1
CALGARY - Sam Gagner's fluke goal was the game winner and Stuart Skinner made 26 saves as the Edmonton Oilers won their 13th game in a row with a 3-1 victory on Saturday night over the Calgary Flames....
Jan 20, 2024

Homan, Bottcher advance to Grand Slam finals
RED DEER, Alta. - Rachel Homan of Ottawa will be playing in Sunday night's Grand Slam championship final at the Co-op Canadian Open. Homan, and her crew of third Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew and l...
Jan 20, 2024

Rouge nets shootout winner as Toronto edges Poulin, Montreal 4-3
MONTREAL - Lauriane Rougeau scored the shootout winner as Toronto edged Montreal 4-3 in the first Professional Women's Hockey League game between the two rival cities on Saturday night at Verdun Audit...
Jan 20, 2024