Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack have added some local flavour to their squad by signing Canadian international prop Chad Bain. The 24-year-old from Belleville, Ont., has worked hard for his chance...

ZURICH - Lionel Messi will not attend the FIFA awards ceremony later Monday, when Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to be named the world’s best player for 2016. Barcelona says it decided Messi woul...

DUBLIN - Rory McIlroy says he resented how the Olympics forced him to decide whether he would represent Ireland or Britain and that it reached a point that it “wasn’t worth the hassle̶...

LONDONDERRY, Vt. - A historical group in Vermont is trying to raise more than $1 million to install a 30-foot-long cast-bronze sculpture honouring the founder of a snowboard company. Sculptor Jason Dr...

Sunday’s Games NFL Playoffs Pittsburgh 30 Miami 12 Green Bay 38 N.Y. Giants 13 — NHL Ottawa 5 Edmonton 3 Pittsburgh 6 Tampa Bay 2 Carolina 4 Boston 3 (OT) Columbus 2 Philadelphia 1 (OT) Ch...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators had their biggest offensive output in their last seven games, and needed nearly every bit of it to snap their four-game losing streak. Mark Stone had a goal and ...

TORONTO - A fourth-quarter collapse, for the second consecutive night. The Toronto Raptors dropped a 129-122 decision to James Harden and the Houston Rockets on Sunday, after the figurative wheels fel...

Canada will open its Women’s Rugby World Cup campaign against Asia qualifier Hong Kong and wrap up pool play against top-ranked New Zealand. Canadian coach Francois Ratier already knew that his ...

TORONTO - “Hockey Night in Canada” host Ron MacLean has apologized to postal workers after suggesting their jobs were “effectively obsolete.” The faux-pas came Saturday af...

ALTENBERG, Germany - Johannes Lochner claimed his first four-man bobsled World Cup victory on Sunday. The 26-year-old German, with his crew of Sebastian Mrowka, Joshua Bluhm and Christian Rasp, was fa...