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Montreal Canadiens defenceman Victor Mete suffers season-ending foot injury

Montreal Canadiens defenceman Victor Mete will miss the rest of the season with a broken foot, the team announced Wednesday. Mete suffered the injury during the game in Detroit last Tuesday. The ...

Feb 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant's widow sues helicopter operator for deaths

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant's widow sued the owner and operator of the helicopter that crashed in fog and killed the former Los Angeles Lakers star and their 13-year-old daughter last month as she publi...

Feb 26, 2020

Wrestler adds to abuse allegations against university doctor

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - An Olympic wrestler has accused a University of Michigan doctor of touching him inappropriately during medical exams at the school and said the physician's reputation for such condu...

Feb 26, 2020

5-time major champ Maria Sharapova retires from tennis at 32

Maria Sharapova quietly walked away from tennis at the age of 32 on Wednesday, ending a career that featured five Grand Slam titles, time at No. 1 in the WTA rankings and a 15-month doping ban. She ha...

Feb 26, 2020

Looking back at Crosby's golden goal a decade later: 'It's seared into my mind'

Jonathan Toews can count on one hand the number of times he hasn't been able to relax ahead of a big game. Known as "Captain Serious" for his steely demeanour, Toews...

Feb 26, 2020

Memories of Sidney Crosby's golden goal ahead of 10-year anniversary

Friday marks 10 years since Sidney Crosby scored in overtime to lead Canada past the United States in the gold-medal men's hockey final at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The goal cam...

Feb 26, 2020

Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas has relatively uneventful trade deadline day

Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas resisted the temptation to make significant changes at the NHL trade deadline. He's hoping adversity makes his slumping team stronger. The Leafs, co...

Feb 26, 2020

UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya apologizes for Twin Towers comment

UFC middleweight champion Israel (The Last Stylebender) Adesanya has apologized for saying he will make UFC 248 challenger Yoel (Soldier of God) Romero "crumble like the Twin Towers." The Nigerian-bor...

Feb 26, 2020

CAAWS rebrands with new name - Canadian Women & Sport - and new logo

TORONTO - Allison Sandmeyer-Graves believes the appetite for information about women in sport is at an all-time high. The opportunity to make an impact is huge. And so with an aim of being m...

Feb 26, 2020

Kovalchuk happy to join powerful Caps, but doesn't rule out return to Habs

Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin felt Ilya Kovalchuk earned the right to help choose his next destination. With multiple teams interested in Kovalchuk's services, Bergevin wanted to ma...

Feb 26, 2020