Category Archives: Sports
No Jennifer Jones in this year's Canadian women's curling championship
The Canadian women’s curling championship will not include perennial favourite Jennifer Jones. The five-time national champion lost a playoff game in the Manitoba provincial playdowns ...
Jan 29, 2017
B.C.'s Tardi wins gold over Ontario at Canadian junior curling championship
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s Tyler Tardi downed Ontario’s Matthew Hall 9-7 to win the men’s Canadian junior curling championship on Sunday. Tardi, who helped Canada’s mixed te...
Jan 29, 2017

Magic spoils DeMar DeRozan's return, beating Toronto Raptors 114-113
TORONTO - Standing in the aftermath of his team’s latest disappointing loss, Dwane Casey went to a word that he hasn’t often used. “Atrocious,” the Toronto Raptors head coach s...
Jan 29, 2017
Nicholson, McMorris, Turcotte, Penner win X Games medals on final day
ASPEN, Colo. - Canada captured four more medals on the final day of the X Games on Sunday. Tyler Nicholson of North Bay, Ont., won silver in the snowboard slopestyle final, while Mark McMorr...
Jan 29, 2017

Simmonds, not McDavid, gets storybook ending in NHL all-star game
LOS ANGELES - Connor McDavid didn’t get the storybook ending in his first NHL all-star game but Wayne Simmonds certainly did. Simmonds scored the winning goal and was named MVP in the ...
Jan 29, 2017
Brittany Lincicome wins LPGA Tour opener in Bahamas in playoff
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas - Brittany Lincicome won the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Bahamas Classic on Sunday in wind and some late rain, beating U.S. Solheim Cup teammate Lexi Thompson with a birdie on...
Jan 29, 2017
Raptors' DeRozan returns against Orlando after missing 3 games with ankle injury
TORONTO - DeMar DeRozan returned to the Toronto Raptors’ lineup on Sunday, after missing three games with a sprained right ankle. The three-time all-star was slated to start against the visiting...
Jan 29, 2017
Patrick, Hischier in the spotlight at Canadian Top Prospects Game
QUEBEC - There will be 40 players dressed for the Canadian junior Top Prospects Game but most eyes will on only two of them - Brandon Wheat Kings centre Nolan Patrick and Halifax Mooseh...
Jan 29, 2017
Toronto Wolfpack star Fuifui Moimoi has Twitter account compromised
Toronto Wolfpack forward Fuifui Moimoi had a rough social media night. The 37-year-old Moimoi, one of the fledgling rugby league team’s highest-profile signings, had his Twitter account com...
Jan 29, 2017
Canadian men finish fourth, find their stride in Wellington Sevens
There have been more valleys than peaks of late for the Canadian men’s rugby sevens team. But Canada climbed high at the Wellington Sevens on the weekend. The Canadians, who started the season w...
Jan 29, 2017