Category Archives: Sports

Marner extends point streak to 17 games, Leafs top Wings 4-2
DETROIT (AP) - Auston Matthews and William Nylander scored 51 seconds apart in the first period, Mitch Marner extended his point streak to 17 games and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Win...
Nov 28, 2022

Siakam has 18 points, 11 rebounds in return to lift Raptors to 100-88 win over Cavs
TORONTO - Pascal Siakam wasted little time in showing what the Toronto Raptors had been missing. Back after a 10-game absence, Siakam scored Toronto's first points of the game en route to 18 points an...
Nov 28, 2022

Favre asks to be dismissed from Mississippi welfare lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money that wa...
Nov 28, 2022

Raptors stars Siakam, Barnes return to lineup for game against Cavaliers
TORONTO - The depleted Toronto Raptors got a huge boost before their game Monday night against Cleveland with the return of stars Pascal Siakam and Scottie Barnes. Siakam missed 10 games with a strain...
Nov 28, 2022

"It was time for Canada" — Davis Cup team tennis trophy finally in Canadian hands
Robert Bettauer was Tennis Canada's director of tennis development some three decades ago when the federation created a vision statement with some lofty goals. One of the top priorities was to one day...
Nov 28, 2022

Arbitrator will referee Dr. J's suit against brand developer
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge on Monday halted a lawsuit filed by basketball legend Julius Erving against a brand-development and marketing company, ruling that the dispute must go to arbitratio...
Nov 28, 2022

Panthers forward Tkachuk returns to province where he was loved, and loathed
EDMONTON - For six seasons, Matthew Tkachuk wore the fiery Flames logo on his chest. But, on the eve of his return to Calgary, he kept the rhetoric cool. "Obviously I've thought about it," Tkachuk sai...
Nov 28, 2022

Former employee launches discrimination complaint against Vancouver Canucks
VANCOUVER - A former member of the Vancouver Canucks' coaching staff has launched a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, alleging she was fired because of her sex, mental illness and physica...
Greg Fry Nov 28, 2022

Courting Disaster: Sportsnet loses Davis Cup feed just before Canada's historic win
The timing of a technical glitch that knocked the Davis Cup final off the air on Sportsnet couldn't have come at a worse time for tennis fans across Canada. Instead of watching the dramatic scenes of ...
Nov 28, 2022

Robertson, Morrissey, Sorokin named NHL's three stars of the week
NEW YORK - Dallas Stars left-wing Jason Robertson, Winnipeg Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey and New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. Robertson h...
Nov 28, 2022