TORONTO - Jon Cooper expects there will be "excruciatingly tough" decisions when it comes down to formalizing Canada's roster for the NHL's Olympic return. The Tampa Bay Lightning head coach and bench boss of the country's men's hockey team at the 2026...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed Canadian receiver Clark Barnes, the CFL team announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Barnes was eligible to become a free agent on Feb. 10. The 25-year-old from Brampton, Ont., had a caree...

NEW YORK - New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin, Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger and Florida Panthers centre Carter Verhaeghe have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. Sorokin, who made at least 30 saves in all three of his starts...

TORONTO - Canadian swingman RJ Barrett isn't returning to the Toronto Raptors lineup for at least a week. Barrett has been out with a right-knee sprain since Nov. 23. The Raptors say Barrett has been treated with a platelet-rich plasma injection, and h...

RUKA - Canadian freestyle skier Julien Viel won bronze in men's competition Monday at the opening stop of World Cup moguls season. Viel, from Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., scored 79.30 in the second men's event to claim the fourth World Cup medal of his care...

TORONTO - Hockey Canada is building a world junior team designed to win, not necessarily dazzle. Gavin McKenna headlined the 27 players Hockey Canada invited to its world junior training camp on Monday ahead of the 2026 international tournament in Minn...

ZURICH (AP) - FIFA says it will include three-minute hydration breaks in each half of every game at next year's World Cup, not just those played in hot weather. The referee will stop the game 22 minutes into each half for p...

ZURICH (AP) - FIFA says it will include three-minute hydration breaks in each half of every game at next year's World Cup, not just those played in hot weather. The referee will stop the game 22 minutes into each half for players to take drinks, regard...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Mohamed Salah is out of Arne Slot's squad for Liverpool's Champions League game against Inter Milan, following his stinging public criticism of the club. The Egyptian forward's name was missing from a 19-player squad Monday as...

MONTREAL - Jordan Binnington knows the chatter is out there. He's leaning on the mindset that's pulled him through tough stretches before. The goalie who backstopped Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off opened the NHL season as the front-runner to start in...

TORONTO - When Darko Rajakovic was asked for an update on injured offensive dynamo RJ Barrett before the Toronto Raptors' third loss in a row on Sunday, the head coach promised an update later in the week. Judging by the way Barrett was hobbling around...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - C.J Stroud threw for 203 yards and a touchdown, the Texans leaned on the NFL's top-ranked defense to shut down Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, and Houston came away from Arrowhead Stadium with a 20-10 victory over Kansas City on...

MONTREAL - Brayden Schenn scored twice and added an assist as the St. Louis Blues held off the Montreal Canadiens for a 4-3 win on Sunday. Dylan Holloway had a goal and two assists while Pavel Buchnevich also scored for St. Louis (11-12-7), which beat ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Jeff Kent was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Sunday by the contemporary era committee, while steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were among seven players who fell short once again. Kent appeared on 14 of 16 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Elected to baseball's Hall of Fame more than 17 years after his final game, Jeff Kent couldn't control his emotions. "Absolutely unprepared. Emotionally unstable," he said after Sunday's vote announceme...

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Hideki Matsuyama ended his season the way he started it, winning the Hero World Challenge on Sunday when he closed with an 8-under 64 and then hit 9-iron to 2 feet for birdie on the first playoff hole to defeat Alex Noren. Matsuy...

TORONTO - Forward Jaylen Brown scored 30 points, including three for four shooting from beyond the three-point line, to help the Boston Celtics avert a wild comeback attempt from the Toronto Raptors in a 121-113 win on Sunday. Brandon Ingram's 30 point...

VICTORIA - Babak Shahbazi has travelled to France, Germany, Brazil and Russia to watch the Iranian national team play for the World Cup, and when he heard that Iran could be playing in Vancouver in the 2026 event, he and his fellow soccer-fanatic frien...

VICTORIA - Babak Shahbazi has travelled to France, Germany, Brazil and Russia to watch the Iranian national team play for the World Cup, and when he heard that Iran could be playing in Vancouver in the 2026 event, he and his fellow soccer-fanatic frien...

LAVAL - The Montréal Victoire entered the Professional Women's Hockey League off-season wanting to become a more physical team, and in their third game of the season - a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Sceptres - they seem to have made an impression. Scep...

LAVAL - Ann-Renée Desbiens made 20 saves, including 11 in the third period, as the Montréal Victoire defeated the Toronto Sceptres 3-1 in Professional Women's Hockey League action Sunday afternoon at Place Bell. Kati Tabin, Hayley Scamurra, and Laura S...

MONT-TREMBLANT - Valérie Grenier wasn't able to repeat Saturday's exploits in the second leg of the Mont-Tremblant alpine skiing World Cup. Austria's Julia Scheib raced to a giant slalom victory Sunday, while Grenier, of St-Isidore, Ont., drifted off ...

HEERENVEEN - Canadian speed skaters capped the final day of the third World Cup stop of the season with a silver in women's team sprint. Calgary's Brooklyn McDougall, Béatrice Lamarche of Quebec City and Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin posted a time of one mi...

RUKA - Star freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury withdrew before the start of men's small final at Sunday's World Cup moguls season opener. Kingsbury, who entered the event with 99 career World Cup victories, finished fourth in qualification but was not on...

ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is more of a m...

ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is more of a m...

CAPE TOWN - Canada finished sixth for the second week in a row on the rugby sevens circuit, giving up a late try in a 12-10 loss to Japan on Sunday at the HSBC Cape Town SVNS. It was Japan's third straight win over the Canadian women this season. The J...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Canucks president Jim Rutherford stated at the end of last season that he wanted to upgrade the team's depth at centre. Facing one of the hottest teams in the NHL in the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night, Vancouver deployed David K...