Category Archives: Sports
Former Quebec junior hockey players to be sentenced in July for sex assault of teen
QUEBEC - A Quebec judge will deliver sentences in July for two former Quebec major junior hockey players who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a minor in June 2021 at a hotel as their team celebra...
Mar 21, 2024
Canadians in NCAA Women's Frozen Four focused on national title, eye PWHL future
Jennifer Gardiner used to get asked about plans for the future. Her answer was simple - become a professional hockey player. "But that wasn't really an option," she recalled. "So it became, 'What do y...
Mar 21, 2024
Canadian Auger-Aliassime advances to second round of men's singles at Miami Open.
MIAMI - Canadian Flix Auger-Aliassime is through to the second round of men's singles at the Miami Open. Auger-Aliassime, of Montreal, dispatched Australian qualifier Adam Walton 7-5, 6-4 in a first-r...
Mar 21, 2024
Canadian forward Liam Millar rejuvenated by loan move back to England with Preston
On loan from Switzerland's FC Basel to England's Preston North End, Canadian forward Liam Millar is back on familiar turf. Preston is a 50-kilometre drive from Liverpool, where a teenage Millar starte...
Mar 21, 2024
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris healing from kneeing himself in the face, surgery
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris is sporting a look these days courtesy of taking his knee to his face. The 30-year-old from Regina posted on Instagram earlier this week a video of himself spinning ...
Mar 21, 2024
Canadian middleweight Aaron Jeffery hopes win in Belfast will leads to title shot
The first question Canadian middleweight Aaron Jeffery fielded at media day ahead of Friday's Bellator Champions Series card in Belfast was about his trademark mullet. Was he the only man in Ireland w...
Mar 21, 2024
U.S.-born CFL prospects Bauman, Dublanko embrace Canadian designation and connections
WINNIPEG - Casey Bauman and Joel Dublanko don't need their new-found dual citizenships to make them feel at home in Canada. The American-born football prospects have family ties that led to their desi...
Mar 21, 2024
Quiet Superstar: Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander the face of new Thunder era
OKLAHOMA CITY - Ever since the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and were renamed the Thunder, the team has had a close connection with the local Boys and Girls Clubs. Star players like R...
Mar 21, 2024
Canada's Homan rolls to win over Estonia's Turmann at world women's curling playdowns
SYDNEY, N.S. - Canada's Rachel Homan tuned up for the playoffs with a 9-4 victory over Estonia's Liisa Turmann at the world women's curling championship. Homan opened with three points and stole four ...
Mar 21, 2024
Downhill training canceled at World Cup finals to protect slope before speed races
SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) - The men's and women's downhill trainings at the World Cup finals were canceled on Thursday. The sessions on Wednesday went ahead as scheduled but it was decided to...
Mar 21, 2024