Category Archives: Sports
Vancouver Canucks defenceman Hronek out eight weeks with lower-body injury
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Canucks defenceman Filip Hronek is expected to be out until the end of January as he recovers from a lower-body injury. General manager Patrik Allvin issued a statement Tuesday s...
Dec 03, 2024
Blue Jays GM Atkins says there is a great deal of opportunity for the club
TORONTO - Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins wouldn't tip his hand on off-season plans Tuesday and instead spoke in generalities ahead of what should be an interesting few weeks on baseball's free ...
Dec 03, 2024
B.C. Lions name former quarterback Buck Pierce as head coach
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions have named Buck Pierce as their new head coach. It's the first head coaching job for Pierce, who spent the last nine seasons on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' staff. He had been...
Dec 03, 2024
IBL's Maple Leafs sign Ayami Sato, widely considered baseball's top female pitcher
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Baseball League have signed Ayami Sato, making the Japanese pitcher the league's first female player. The team announced the signing in a release T...
Dec 03, 2024
Canadian women wrap up eventful year with lopsided 5-1 win over South Korea
MURCIA - Marie-Yasmine Alidou and Olivia Smith scored to help the Canadian women's soccer team wrap up a tumultuous year with a lopsided 5-1 win over 19th-ranked South Korea in an international friend...
Dec 03, 2024
Jets place forward Ehlers on injured reserve, recall Lambert from AHL
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets placed have forward Nikolaj Ehlers on injured reserve with a lower-body injury, the NHL club said Tuesday. The move is retroactive to Friday, when Ehlers left Winnipeg's 4...
Dec 03, 2024
Alouettes sign defensive back Najee Murray for 2025 CFL season
MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes have signed American defensive back Najee Murray for the 2025 season, the CFL team announced Tuesday. Murray recorded 44 defensive tackles in 11 games last season and...
Dec 03, 2024
Patrik Laine to return from knee injury, make Canadiens debut against Islanders
MONTREAL - Patrik Laine's long-awaited Montreal Canadiens debut - and first game in nearly a year - has arrived. The Finnish winger is back from a knee injury as the Canadiens host the New York Island...
Dec 03, 2024
Double Olympic champion cyclist Evenepoel in hospital after training crash
ANDERLECHT, Belgium (AP) - Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel was taken to hospital following a crash during training in Belgium on Tuesday. Belgian media reported Evenepoel was unable to avoid t...
Dec 03, 2024
Ski great Marcel Hirscher's comeback season ended by serious knee injury
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) - Ski great Marcel Hirscher's comeback season after five years away from the sport is over when it had barely begun. The Austrian star tore the ACL in his left knee "during a ha...
Dec 03, 2024