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Toronto Raptors guard Norman Powell questionable for team's opener in Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. - Toronto Raptors guard Norman Powell is questionable for Wednesday night's season opener against the visiting New Orleans Pelicans. Raptors coach Nick Nurse says the team is waiting until...

Dec 23, 2020

Canada's Bauer looking forward to new role as sports director of Astana-Premier Tech

Steve Bauer, a Canadian cycling icon, likes what he sees in his new role as sports director of Astana. The 61-year-old from Fenwick, Ont., who now calls St. Catharines, Ont., home, joined the joint Ka...

Dec 23, 2020

Ontario Hockey League pushes back start of season again because of COVID-19

TORONTO - The Ontario Hockey League has delayed the February start of its 2020-21 season.The OHL announced Wednesday the season will not start on Feb. 4, the date targeted earlier this year. Players w...

Dec 23, 2020

Unusual world junior men's hockey championship set to open in Edmonton

A world junior men's hockey championship like no other opens Friday in Edmonton with zero spectators and teams walled off from the general public because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world under-20 t...

Dec 23, 2020

World junior men's hockey championship team capsules

A capsule look at the 10 countries competing in the 2021 world junior men's hockey championship Dec. 25 to Jan. 5 in Edmonton (ranked in order of 2020 finish). CANADA Half a dozen players return from ...

Dec 23, 2020

Atletico's Trippier banned for 10 weeks for betting breaches

LONDON - Atletico Madrid defender Kieran Trippier was banned from football for 10 weeks on Wednesday for breaching betting rules in a punishment from The English Football Association that applies worl...

Dec 23, 2020

Americans beats Finns in world junior tune-up; Canada to play Russia in exhibition

EDMONTON - Cole Caufield scored two goals in a 35-second span, and the United States held on to beat Finland 3-2 in a world junior hockey championship tune-up game on Tuesday at Rogers Place.Arthur Ka...

Dec 22, 2020

Durant returns with 22 and a 125-99 Nets rout of Warriors

NEW YORK - Kevin Durant looked good as new against his old team, Kyrie Irving was even better and the Brooklyn Nets emphatically kicked off the Steve Nash era with a 125-99 victory over the Golden Sta...

Dec 22, 2020

Welcome back, NBA: Here's 10 things to know about the season

And ... it's back. The NBA's new season starts Tuesday with a pair of games; Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets welcoming Durant's former team in Golden State, while the defending champion Los Angeles...

Dec 22, 2020

"Tampa Bay Raptaneers" set to tip off bizarre regular season against Pelicans

Before team president Masai Ujiri placed the lucky toonie in the Raptors' new practice floor, the team president held it aloft and said: "This is for the Tampa Bay Raptaneers." The joke was a referenc...

Dec 22, 2020