Category Archives: Sports

Company behind Sporting Life and Golf Town to launch new Team Town Sports store
TORONTO - Canadian retailer Sporting Life Group is launching a new national sporting goods chain catering to team sports players. The company says its new Team Town Sports banner will open its first t...
Mar 06, 2023

Canadian Tire commits half its sponsorship dollars to women's professional sports
TORONTO - Canadian Tire Corp. has announced a new commitment to improve gender equity in sports, saying at least half the money it spends sponsoring professional sports will go towards women by 2026. ...
Mar 06, 2023

NFL.com lists Canadians Brown, Sow as players who improved NFL draft stock at combine
It appears Canadians Chase Brown and Sidy Sow raised eyebrows at the '23 NFL combine. Brown, a running back at Illinois, and Sow, an offensive lineman at Eastern Michigan, were among five Canadians at...
Mar 06, 2023

Barbashev scores 2, Golden Knights tip Canadiens 4-3
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ivan Barbashev scored his first two goals with Vegas and Jonathan Quick got his first victory with the Golden Knights in a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday. Shea Theodore...
Mar 05, 2023

Toms wins Cologuard Classic on PGA Tour Champions by 1, Weir ties for 8th
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - David Toms got up-and-down for his third bogey of the week on the par-4 18th hole at Tucson National on Sunday to beat Robert Karlsson by one stroke in the Cologuard Classic on th...
Mar 05, 2023

Kurt Kitayama breaks through in wild finish at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Kurt Kitayama let an All-Star cast of contenders back into the tournament with a triple bogey, only to beat them all with a clutch birdie and the best lag putt of his life to win ...
Mar 05, 2023

Marcus Ericsson wins rough IndyCar season-opening race
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Jack Harvey was taken to a hospital for observation and Helio Castroneves needed an ice pack and X-rays. A pair of cars went airborne, the leaders crashed each other and th...
Mar 05, 2023

Blue Jays use big second, seventh innings to crush Phillies 16-4
DUNEDIN, Fla. - The Toronto Blue Jays scored six runs in the second inning and another seven in the seventh en route to a 16-4 drubbing of the Philadelphia Phillies in spring training action on Sunday...
Mar 05, 2023

Canadian women topple Ireland at Canada Sevens, men close tournament with loss
VANCOUVER - Fancy Bermudez scored a pair of tries as the Canadian women defeated Ireland 24-12 Sunday to put themselves in position for their best result this season at the HSBC Canada Sevens tourname...
Mar 05, 2023

QMJHL commissioner Gilles Courteau resigns after 37 years at helm
MONTREAL - Quebec Major Junior Hockey League commissioner Gilles Courteau has announced his resignation after 37 years at the helm of the junior hockey league. Courteau had previously said he would re...
Mar 05, 2023