Category Archives: Sports
Curveball: Alarm-type sound interrupts remote radio broadcast of Blue Jays game
Blue Jays radio listeners were thrown a curveball over the weekend when an alarm-type beeping sound interrupted a remote broadcast of Toronto's road game against the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn't imm...
Apr 02, 2023
Gorman hits 2 homers in St. Louis' 9-4 win over Toronto
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Nolan Gorman hit a pair of two-run homers - including a first-inning blast that capped off a three-homer inning - and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-4 on Sunday....
Apr 02, 2023
Canada's Gushue rolls to 8-2 victory over New Zealand's Hood at men's curling worlds
OTTAWA - Canada's Brad Gushue needed only seven ends to complete an 8-2 rout of New Zealand's Anton Hood on Sunday at the world men's curling championship. Gushue opened with a deuce and made a hit fo...
Apr 02, 2023
Potter fired by Chelsea after 6 months in charge
LONDON (AP) - Chelsea has fired manager Graham Potter with the club languishing in the middle of the Premier League standings despite spending around $630 million on players in the last two transfer w...
Apr 02, 2023
Raptors inch closer to securing spot in play-in tournament
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Pascal Siakam scored 36 points, Fred VanVleet added 20 points and a career-high 20 assists and the Toronto Raptors beat the undermanned Charlotte Hornets 128-108 on Sunday to in...
Apr 02, 2023
Man United stumbles at Newcastle, top-4 EPL spot not assured
It wasn't long ago that Manchester United was being talked up, somewhat optimistically, as a potential outsider for the Premier League title. Now, even a top-four finish is looking far from assured fo...
Apr 02, 2023
Canadian women sixth, men 13th at Hong Kong Sevens
HONG KONG - New Zealand continued its domination of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series on Sunday with both the men and women lifting the cup at the Hong Kong Sevens. It was a record fifth-straight tou...
Apr 02, 2023
Dallas Jackals post first-ever Major League Rugby win, at expense of Toronto Arrows
The Dallas Jackals posted their first-ever win Saturday night, dispatching the Toronto Arrows 14-11. The Jackals went 0-16-0 in their inaugural 2022 season in Major League Rugby and were 0-6-0 when th...
Apr 02, 2023
Blinken urges Russia to release two detained Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone since the Ukraine war, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last we...
Apr 02, 2023
Brendan Rodgers fired by relegation-threatened Leicester
LEICESTER, England (AP) - Relegation-threatened Leicester fired manager Brendan Rodgers on Sunday in a late-season move to preserve its Premier League status. Rodgers, who has been in charge for four ...
Apr 02, 2023