Category Archives: Sports
Raptors' VanVleet, Barnes sidelined against Brooklyn Nets
TORONTO - The injuries and illnesses continue to mount for the Toronto Raptors. Fred VanVleet was among players listed as out against the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday with a non-COVID illness. Also out ...
Nov 23, 2022
Sports-betting marketplace taking notice of Canada at World Cup
TORONTO - Canada's return to the World Cup wasn't a victorious one but it certainly created plenty of action in Ontario's legal sports-betting market. Belgium defeated the Canadians 1-0 on Wednesday i...
Nov 23, 2022
Canadian men push Belgium to the limit but lose 1-0 in return to World Cup
AL RAYYAN, Qatar - Canada put on a show in its return to the World Cup after a 36-year absence but failed to convert its chances in a valiant 1-0 loss to Belgium on Wednesday. The 41st-ranked Canadian...
Nov 23, 2022
Depleted Maple Leafs acquire defenceman Timmins in trade with Coyotes
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired defenceman Conor Timmins from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for forward Curtis Douglas. The 24-year-old Timmins has three assists through six games wi...
Nov 23, 2022
New-look Team Canada returns to Whistler for bobsled, skeleton World Cup
Canadian bobsledder Cynthia Appiah knows she's on the radar heading into a new season. The 32-year-old Torontonian grabbed attention last year, finishing third overall in the women's monobob world ser...
Nov 23, 2022
Lake Louise World Cup future cloudy, Canada's racers laud where they launched careers
If it is the last year of World Cup alpine ski racing in Lake Louise, Alta., after three decades there, Canada's team wants to make it memorable. The men open the international speed season with Frida...
Nov 23, 2022
Former champions McNair, Barrieau top field for Canadian driving championship event
EDMONTON - Former champions Doug McNair and Gilles Barrieau top the field for the 2022 Canadian driving championship. This year's event will be held Thursday at Century Mile Racetrack and Casino. McNa...
Nov 23, 2022
Canadian men lay claim to the turf at World Cup stadium before tournament opener
AL RAYYAN, Qatar - Canada came armed to the World Cup. During World Cup qualifying the Canadian men travelled with a sword which bears the words 'Nihil timendum est,' which is 'Fear Nothing' in Latin....
Nov 23, 2022
NHL notebook: Early season 'Fire Lindy' chants didn't 'sit well' with surging Devils
Miles Wood was in his car and not in a good mood. New Jersey Devils fans were in the same boat for different reasons. A team with heightened expectations after a mostly miserable decade had just dropp...
Nov 23, 2022
From Mexico to Qatar, Jamie Lowery's Canadian World Cup adventure continues
DOHA, Qatar - Thirty-six years later, Jamie Lowery is back at the World Cup. Lowery, one of two amateurs on the Canadian team that played at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, has returned to the soccer sh...
Nov 23, 2022