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'Champions Start Small' motto stuck with figure skater and new mom Meagan Duhamel

Meagan Duhamel noticed a small sign by a family room door while staying with her baby daughter in a neonatal intensive care unit last fall. It read: "Champions Start Small" - the motto for the S...

Nov 18, 2020

Pandemic poses preparation challenges for Canada's Tokyo-bound teams

Getting a bunch of people together from across Canada to play sports against a bunch of people from another country is logistically complex at the best of times. Stir in a pandemic discouraging intern...

Nov 18, 2020

Ottawa Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins, coach Rick Campbell returning in 2021

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks will bring back general manager Marcel Desjardins, head coach Paul LaPolice and the entire football operations staff in 2021. Desjardins, Ottawa's GM since the team's inc...

Nov 18, 2020

"I know he's there" - Bishop-Nriagu says her future success will be due to Fairall

Melissa Bishop-Nriagu kept every training program coach Dennis Fairall had written for her over the decade the two had worked together. And so, when Bishop-Nriagu returned to the track after becoming ...

Nov 18, 2020

Nashville SC's Walker Zimmerman named MLS Defender of the Year

NEW YORK - Nashville SC centre back Walker Zimmerman has been named the 2020 MLS Defender of the Year. Zimmerman was runner-up to Minnesota's Ike Opara last year. The 27-year-old U.S. international re...

Nov 18, 2020

Canada reviewing NBA plan to play in Toronto amid pandemic

TORONTO - The Canadian government is reviewing a proposal from the NBA and the Raptors to play in Toronto amid the pandemic. A spokesman for Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Tuesday officials have bee...

Nov 17, 2020

NBA draft one of several huge tasks facing the Raptors this month

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have the 29th and 59th picks in Wednesday night's NBA draft, capping the longest and most convoluted pre-draft period in league history. The Raptors haven't been able eva...

Nov 17, 2020

Calgary Stampeders reduce coaching staff amid pandemic economic pain

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders coaching staff remains mostly intact for 2021 with the exception of a pair of position coaches. Running backs coach George Cortez and defensive backs coach Joshua Bell...

Nov 17, 2020

Montreal Alouettes executives Cecchini, Maciocia both expecting CFL to play in 2021

Montreal Alouettes president Mario Cecchini and general manager Danny Maciocia expect the CFL team to be playing games in 2021. Both Cecchini and Maciocia were brimming with optimism Tuesday during Mo...

Nov 17, 2020

Former Maple Leafs captain Rick Vaive tells it like it was — and is — in new book

Rick Vaive is finally ready to tell his story - his whole, unfiltered account. The former captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs was never one to hold back, and it makes sense the same approach would appl...

Nov 17, 2020