Category Archives: Sports
Guardians take advantage of Blue Jays pitching wildness in 7-1 win
CLEVELAND (AP) - Carlos Carrasco pitched six strong innings and Austin Hedges hit a two-run single when Toronto's pitchers couldn't find the strike zone, lifting the Cleveland Guardians to a 7-1 win o...
Jun 21, 2024
Tom Kim builds a 2-shot lead over Scheffler and Morikawa at Travelers Championship
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - Tom Kim is looking at the long term with his golf game and is getting short-term results at the Travelers Championship, where he followed an opening 62 with a 5-under 65 on Frid...
Jun 21, 2024
Canada Selects name training squad for rugby game against Vancouver Highlanders
Peter Nelson and Kainoa Lloyd highlight the 26-man Canada Selects training squad for a June 28 game against the fledgling Vancouver Highlanders at Burnaby Lake Rugby Club. Nelson, Lloyd join Siaki Vik...
Jun 21, 2024
Canadian Michael Dufort shakes his head after losing split decision at PFL 5
SALT LAKE CITY - Lightweight (The Canadian Badass) Michael Dufort lost a split decision to American Adam (The Bomb) Piccolotti on the PFL 5 undercard Friday. The judges scored it 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 f...
Jun 21, 2024
Mbappé watches from subs' bench as France and Netherlands produce Euro 2024's first 0-0
LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Kylian Mbapp watched from the substitutes' bench as France and the Netherlands finished 0-0 in a heavyweight European Championship clash on Friday. Antoine Griezmann missed Fra...
Jun 21, 2024
CFL fines veteran kickers over chipped football controversy
TORONTO - Kickers Sergio Castillo, Brett Lauther, Sean Whyte and Lewis Ward were fined by the CFL on Friday after publicly speaking out on the league's use of chipped footballs on field-goal attempts....
Jun 21, 2024
Argos defensive lineman Ceresna looking forward to facing Edmonton Elks
TORONTO - Jake Ceresna returns from the bye week refreshed and with a little added incentive to keep the Toronto Argonauts unbeaten at home. Toronto (1-0) hosts the Edmonton Elks (0-2) on Saturday nig...
Jun 21, 2024
Coach John Herdman reviewing Toronto FC's penalty-taker among other changes
Toronto FC coach John Herdman is thinking about giving Federico Bernardeschi a break from taking penalties after the Italian star's third straight miss from the penalty spot in Wednesday's 2-1 loss to...
Jun 21, 2024
Fernandez ousted in Birmingham quarterfinals with three-set loss to Tomljanovic
BIRMINGHAM - Canada's Leylah Fernandez faltered after a strong first set in a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 loss to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Rothesay Classic grass-court tenn...
Jun 21, 2024
Energized Austria wins and puts Lewandowski's Poland at risk of elimination from Euro 2024
BERLIN (AP) - Austria picked up its first win at Euro 2024 by defeating Poland 3-1 in its second group match on Friday. Gernot Trauner, Christoph Baumgartner and Marko Arnautovic scored for Austria wh...
Jun 21, 2024