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Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris closes in on White's X Games medal record

Mark McMorris is on the verge of Winter X Games history. Winning medals in slopestyle and big air Saturday in Aspen, Colo., would push the Canadian snowboarder past American star Shaun White...

Jan 22, 2020

Larry Walker's Hall plaque to feature Rockies cap, not Expos

NEW YORK - Larry Walker's Hall of Fame plaque in Cooperstown will have a Colorado Rockies cap, not a Montreal Expos hat. Walker spoke with Hall officials after he was elected Tuesday in his 10th and f...

Jan 22, 2020

Powell's big 4th quarter leads Raptors past Hawks, 122-117

ATLANTA - Norman Powell says nothing has changed, even though he's in the best streak of his highest-scoring season. It may feel normal to the Toronto Raptors' sixth man. The results definitely look d...

Jan 22, 2020

Canadian James Hinchcliffe crossing off items on his racing bucket list

James Hinchcliffe was surprised and disappointed when he was dismissed from Arrow McLaren SP last October. Now he sees it as an opportunity to live out all his racing fantasies. The 33-year-...

Jan 22, 2020

Wolfpack look to play World Cup champion Australia in Toronto in October

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack are thinking big on the eve of their debut season in the top-tier Betfred Super League. The transatlantic rugby league team is looking to play reigning Wo...

Jan 22, 2020

Jenkins thrilled to have Walker join him as second Canadian in Hall of Fame

Fergie Jenkins didn't expect he'd be holding on to his status as the lone Canadian in the National Baseball Hall of Fame for nearly three decades. So when Maple Ridge, B.C., native Larr...

Jan 22, 2020

Canadian snowboarder captures third medal of Youth Olympics as event concludes

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Canada finished with eight medals at the Youth Olympics after notching a pair of third-place showings on the 13th and final day of the event on Wednesday. In snowboarding,...

Jan 22, 2020

Canada thumped by South Africa in second game at U-19 Cricket World Cup

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa - Benjamin Calitz hit 63 in a losing cause Wednesday as Canada lost to South Africa by 150 runs at the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Batting first, South Africa (1-1...

Jan 22, 2020

Mavericks centre Powell suffers ruptured Achilles, weighing surgery options

Dallas Mavericks centre Dwight Powell has suffered a rupture of his right Achilles tendon and is weighing his surgical options, the NBA team said in a release Wednesday. The Toronto native was in...

Jan 22, 2020

Roughriders sign defensive lineman A.C. Leonard through 2021 season

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed defensive lineman A.C. Leonard to a two-year contract extension through the 2021 season. The six-foot-two, 250-pound Leonard is entering his sixt...

Jan 22, 2020