Category Archives: Sports

Jays begin 2023 on 10-day road trip before returning to renovated Rogers Centre
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays will begin next season on a lengthy road trip before returning home to a renovated Rogers Centre. The Blue Jays released their schedule for the 2023 season on Wednesday...
Aug 24, 2022

Achonwa, Carleton, Nurse headline Canada's basketball roster for World Cup training
EDMONTON - WNBA players Natalie Achonwa, Bridget Carleton and Kia Nurse headline Canada's women's basketball roster for its pre-World Cup training camp. Nurse, a guard for the Phoenix Mercury, hasn't ...
Aug 24, 2022

Belarus' Azarenka dropped from Ukraine exhibition at US Open
NEW YORK (AP) - Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was dropped Wednesday from a pre-U.S. Open exhibition event raising money for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. Azarenka is...
Aug 24, 2022

Canada back on top of the women's hockey world, but work continues to stay there
Canada's women's hockey team starts the world championship remembering the words of a man who climbed Mount Everest twice. Jamie Clarke, a Canadian adventurer who reached the top of the world's highes...
Aug 24, 2022

Maier gets nod ahead of veteran Bo Levi Mitchell for Calgary Stampeders
WINNIPEG - A first for Jake Maier. The second-year quarterback will be Calgary's starter Thursday night when the Stampeders (6-3) visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-1). The start will be Maier's fourt...
Aug 24, 2022

A team-by-team look at the women's world hockey championship field
A capsule look at the 10 teams competing in the 2022 women's world ice hockey championship in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark. Listed in order of finish in Calgary in 2021. CANADA The reigning worl...
Aug 24, 2022

CF Montreal sending Mihailovic to Dutch club AZ Alkmaar
MONTREAL - Star midfielder Djordje Mihailovic will be leaving CF Montreal at the end of the Major League Soccer season. The team announced Wednesday that it has sold Mihailovic's playing rights to Dut...
Aug 24, 2022

2016 champion Kerber out of US Open; says she's pregnant
NEW YORK (AP) - Three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday because she is pregnant, announcing the news via social media by joking that "two against one j...
Aug 24, 2022

Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson dies at 87
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, whose unmistakable swagger in helping the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title earned him the nickname "Lenny the Cool," died...
Aug 24, 2022

Bradley Jr. sparks 8-run rally in Jays' win over Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) - Jackie Bradley Jr. doubled and scored to key an eight-run inning against his former team and the Toronto Blue Jays rolled to a 9-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night. Georg...
Aug 23, 2022