Category Archives: Sports

Former Alouettes coach Khari Jones joins Ticats' football operations staff
HAMILTON - Former Montreal Alouettes head coach Khari Jones has joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' front office as a football operations consultant. The Ticats announced Jones's hiring in a release Monda...
Jul 18, 2022

A month after contracting COVID-19, De Grasse withdraws from world 200 metres
EUGENE, Ore. - Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse has withdrawn from the 200 metres at the world track and field championships, the event in which he won Olympic gold last summer in Tokyo. The 27-ye...
Jul 18, 2022

Vanessa Gilles making her presence felt with Canadian women's soccer team
A rock in the heart of the defence and an aerial threat at the other end of the pitch, Vanessa Gilles has become an important member of the Canadian women's soccer team. The 26-year-old from Ottawa is...
Jul 18, 2022

Sons of All-Stars Holliday, Jones go 1-2 in MLB draft
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Matt Holliday heard from agent Scott Boras that his son was about to be picked first in baseball's amateur draft, and the 2007 batting champion didn't let on. "That was kind of cool...
Jul 17, 2022

Bull rider Buttar fit to be tied in Stampede rodeo
CALGARY - Dakota Buttar didn't mind sharing the spotlight with Shane Proctor at the Calgary Stampede rodeo on Sunday. Both Buttar and Proctor posted scores of 88.5 points atop their bulls in a bonus r...
Jul 17, 2022

Chez Reavie wins Barracuda for 3rd PGA Tour title
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) - Chez Reavie won the Barracuda Championship on Sunday, holding on in the breezy final round of the PGA Tour's lone modified Stableford scoring event for his third tour title. Six...
Jul 17, 2022

Canada's Rogers wins historic silver in women's hammer throw at world championship
EUGENE, Ore. - Canada's Camryn Rogers spun four times in the circle, then unleashed a hammer throw that soared straight into the history books. The 23-year-old from Richmond, B.C., threw 75.52 metres ...
Jul 17, 2022

Smith rallies to beat McIlroy at British Open for 1st major
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) - The stage at St. Andrews was all set for Rory McIlroy. The show belonged to Cameron Smith, and so did that silver claret jug he won in a Sunday stunner at the British Open...
Jul 17, 2022

Scott Dixon wins fourth Honda Indy Toronto, matches Mario Andretti for 52 career wins
TORONTO - Scott Dixon has won the Honda Indy Toronto for a fourth time. Colton Herta was second fastest around the street track at Exhibition Place and Felix Rosenqvist was third. Dixon is now tied wi...
Jul 17, 2022

Toronto Blue Jays beat shorthanded Royals 4-2 to claim the four-game series
TORONTO - Alejandro Kirk belted a two-run homer to left field in the eighth inning to push the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-2 win against the shorthanded Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Kirk's 11th round-tr...
Jul 17, 2022