Sports

Buying time; Tokyo Games postponement a boon for injured Canadian athletes

When TJ Sanders isn't on the volleyball court running Canada's offence, he's often laying on his back with his feet on a chair courtside. Canada's starting setter has managed a painful back injur...

Apr 01, 2020

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment leaders take pay cuts in wake of COVID-19

TORONTO - Top Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment executives are taking pay cuts in the wake of COVID-19 shutting down the company's sports and entertainment business. A memo to MLSE ...

Apr 01, 2020

Ujiri would love to season salvaged, but global health should be focus right now

TORONTO - Masai Ujiri would love to see the remainder of the NBA season salvaged somehow. But the Toronto Raptors president said, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has brought the sports world to...

Apr 01, 2020

Wolfpack stuck between a rock and a hard place as rugby league ponders future

TORONTO - As English rugby league faces an uncertain future due to COVID-19, the Toronto Wolfpack find themselves once again between a rock and a hard place. The team's next payday comes the...

Apr 01, 2020

UEFA postpones more soccer amid uncertainty over resumption

UEFA postponed more matches and deadlines on Wednesday without giving any firm indication on when European soccer might be able to resume, as it continues to grapple with the challenge of completing c...

Apr 01, 2020

Sens say four more members of the organization have tested positive for COVID-19

The Ottawa Senators say four additional members of the organization have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to six. The team announced Wednesday that the people in question travelle...

Apr 01, 2020

Source: Woodbine Entertainment to postpone $1-million Queen's Plate

TORONTO - Add the 2020 Queen's Plate to the list of sports events to have either been cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A source told The Canadian Press that Woodbine Entertainment ...

Apr 01, 2020

Golfer Corey Conners making the most of time at home during social distancing

Like most people, Corey Conners is finding new and different ways to fill his time while observing physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. That means playing as the Toronto Maple L...

Apr 01, 2020

Wimbledon cancelled for 1st time since WWII because of virus

Wimbledon was cancelled on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, the first time since World War II that the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament won't be played. The All England Club announced...

Apr 01, 2020

1st virus death in Senegal is ex-French soccer club boss

DAKAR, Senegal - Pape Diouf, a former president of French soccer club Marseille, died Tuesday in Senegal after contracting the coronavirus. It was the West African country's first COVID-19-related dea...

Apr 01, 2020