CALGARY - Canada's team for the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off will include the NHL's most valuable player and its playoff MVP. Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon and Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid were among the six players announced Friday by Hockey Canada, along with Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney ...

LONDON - Five Canadians - three women and two men - are part of the singles competition draw at Wimbledon, which was announced Friday. Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime, the top Canadian seed in singles play at No. 17, opens the men's draw against Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis, while Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill,...

TORONTO - Immanuel Quickley will sign a five-year contract to stay with the Toronto Raptors, according to multiple reports. Quickley intends to ink the US$175 million contract when free agency officially opens on Sunday. The deal cements the 25-year-old point guard's status as an integral part of the Raptors' young cor...

EASTBOURNE - Canada's Leylah Fernandez has advanced to the final of the Rothesay International grass-court tennis tournament. Fernandez, of Laval, Que., defeated defending champion Madison Keys 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in Friday's semifinal at the Wimbledon tune-up event. She will play the winner of Friday's other semifinal betwe...

FREDERICTON - Canada's unofficial national colours will be on full display Monday as Canadians don patriotic T-shirts, wave hand-held flags and hang bunting to celebrate their country. But while the red-and-white flag for the most part unites Canadians, the colours' meaning is open to interpretation. Xavier Géli...

VANCOUVER - Sean Whyte kicked a 42-yard field goal in the dying seconds as the B.C. Lions battled from behind to defeat the Edmonton Elks 24-21 in a back-and-forth CFL game Thursday night. Sean Whyte also connected on kicks of 29 and 24 yards to extend his consecutive streak field goal streak to 27. Edmonton had tied t...

MONTREAL - Mo Ahmed won the men's 5,000-metre race and Gabriela Debues-Stafford finished first in the women's 5K competition Thursday night at the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic track and field trials. Ahmed, a four-time Olympian from St. Catharines, Ont., finished in 13 minutes 10.99 seconds at Complexe sportif Claud...

DETROIT (AP) - Akshay Bhatia closed strong enough in the opening round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic that he surged atop the leaderboard, and yet he knows no lead is safe at the Detroit Golf Club. Bhatia chipped in for eagle from 83 feet on the 17th hole and ended with a birdie for an 8-under 64 Thursday, giving him a...

CALGARY - The Calgary Flames traded forward Andrew Mangiapane to the Washington Capitals on Thursday night for a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft. Mangiapane had 40 points (14 goals, 26 assists) in 75 games for the Flames this past season. He has reached the 40-point mark in each of the last three seasons and re...

LAS VEGAS - Nathan MacKinnon finally has his Hart Trophy. After close calls in both 2018 and 2020, the Colorado Avalanche centre was voted the NHL's most valuable player for the 2023-24 season Thursday at the league's annual awards show. MacKinnon also won the Ted Lindsay Award, which honours the most outstanding playe...