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Davies, Sinclair among five Canadians up for CONCACAF Player of the Year Award

Canadians Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David, Jessie Fleming, Stephanie Labbe and Christine Sinclair are up for CONCACAF Player of the Year. The men's and women's winners will be determined in voting by ...

Feb 04, 2022

Arrows start 2022 MLR season with well-travelled coach Peter Smith at the helm

TORONTO - While just 32, Toronto Arrows head coach Peter Smith has a few stories to tell. A fly half, the Australian played rugby professionally in Wales (Ospreys) and Japan (Coca-Cola West Red Spark ...

Feb 04, 2022

Northwest Territories defeats Manitoba 8-6 in Scotties tiebreaker game

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Kerry Galusha of the Northwest Territories defeated Manitoba's Mackenzie Zacharias 8-6 in a tiebreaker game Friday morning at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's cur...

Feb 04, 2022

Locked out MLB players reject offer of federal mediation

NEW YORK (AP) - Locked out players rejected Major League Baseball's request for a federal mediator to enter stalled labor negotiations, a move that pretty much eliminated any chance for an on-time sta...

Feb 04, 2022

Quebec middleweight Marc-Andre Barriault believes he's found recipe for UFC success

Quebec middleweight Marc-Andre (Powerbar) Barriault is a long way from his hometown of Gatineau, Que., and former training base of Quebec City these days. The 31-year-old mixed martial artist has call...

Feb 04, 2022

Police: Arrest in altercation that badly injured 49ers fan

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspect was arrested in an altercation that badly injured a San Francisco 49ers fan in a parking lot outside SoFi Stadium during last weekend's NFC championship game between the 4...

Feb 04, 2022

Ex-Montreal Canadien Chris Nilan says he lost radio job over vaccine refusal

MONTREAL - Former Montreal Canadiens forward turned radio host Chris Nilan says he was fired from TSN 690, a Montreal sports radio station, after he refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter pos...

Feb 04, 2022

Curlers right the ship, figure skaters struggle as Canada seeks to defend gold medals

BEIJING - Canada's defence of its Olympic mixed doubles curling gold medal is looking a lot more promising. The path to repeating as figure skating team champions, however, is on perilously thin ice. ...

Feb 04, 2022

Balanced attack leads Raptors to OT win for fourth straight victory

TORONTO - Pascal Siakam recorded a double-double and newly minted all-star Fred VanVleet added 21 as the Toronto Raptors topped the Chicago Bulls 127-120 in overtime on Thursday. Siakam finished with ...

Feb 03, 2022

Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet selected as all-star reserve

Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet has been selected as a reserve for the 2022 NBA All-Star Game. He was voted in for the first time in his career by a panel of the NBA's 30 head coaches. VanVleet is...

Feb 03, 2022