Category Archives: Sports
Terry the shootout hero again as U.S. tops Canada 5-4 in world junior final
MONTREAL - Canada came so close to world junior championship gold that, after losing in a shootout, it was an effort for defenceman Thomas Chabot just to talk about it. “It’s hard for me r...
Jan 05, 2017
Maroon gets hat trick, fights Chara; Oilers beat Bruins
BOSTON - Patrick Maroon interrupted his scoring onslaught to accept an invitation to fight 6-foot-9 Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chara. “‘Z’ asked me to go. I respect ‘Z.’ I s...
Jan 05, 2017
Lowry pours in 33 points to lift Toronto Raptors 101-93 over Utah
TORONTO - Moments before Toronto took the court against Utah on Thursday, Jazz coach Quin Snyder was heaping praise on Kyle Lowry, calling him his favourite player in the Eastern Conference. And then ...
Jan 05, 2017
Capped off: Blue Jackets' streak snapped at 16 in Washington
WASHINGTON - John Tortorella broke from his usual routine after the Columbus Blue Jackets’ streak-breaking clunker on Thursday night. He felt he had to. Tortorella walked into the visiting locke...
Jan 05, 2017
Raptors Patterson sidelined for third straight game with knee injury
Toronto Raptors forward Patrick Patterson was sidelined for the third consecutive game with a strained left knee on Thursday. The Raptors were hosting the Utah Jazz in their first game at Air Canada C...
Jan 05, 2017
Guryanov's OT winner to give Russia 2-1 win over Sweden in bronze-medal game
MONTREAL - Russian netminder Ilya Samsonov was at his best on Thursday and it showed in a bronze-medal victory for his team at the world junior hockey championship. The 19-year-old Samsonov stopped 38...
Jan 05, 2017
Hockey Canada looks for answers to world junior attendance woes at Bell Centre
MONTREAL - International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel wonders if Montreal is a one-team town and that’s why attendance has been weak at the world junior championship. “Here, ...
Jan 05, 2017
Canada's under-22 women's hockey team beats Sweden 2-1 at Nations Cup
FUSSEN, Germany - Laura Stacey of Kleinburg, Ont., and Victoria Bach of Milton, Ont., scored less than four minutes apart in the second period to lead the Canadian women’s under-22 team to a 2-1...
Jan 05, 2017
Canadian women believe they can challenge at Women's Rugby World Cup this summer
TORONTO - The Canadian women’s rugby team starts 2017 believing a world championship is within its reach. For the only one of Rugby Canada’s four senior teams that isn’t centralized,...
Jan 05, 2017
Canadian Laurent Duvernay-Tardif entrenched in Chiefs' offensive line
It’s been a meteoric rise for Canadian Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. Taken in the sixth round, 200th overall, of the 2014 NFL draft from McGill University, the 25-year-old native of Mont-St-Hilaire, ...
Jan 05, 2017