Category Archives: Sports
Hometown kids Brown and Marner help Leafs keep rolling on home-ice
TORONTO - Connor Brown’s parents typically handle the ticket requests, helping as best they can to keep the 22-year-old from the Toronto neighbourhood of Etobicoke focused on matters relating to...
Nov 17, 2016
Raffl, Couturier help Flyers beat Jets 5-2
PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Flyers used strong goaltending and opportunistic scoring to get just their second win in six games. Michael Raffl and Sean Couturier scored 34 seconds apart in the firs...
Nov 17, 2016
Waiting for Gaudreau: Flames prepared for life without talented left-winger
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames are preparing for life without talented left-winger Johnny Gaudreau for the next six weeks. That was the message from Calgary general manager Brad Treliving on Thursday af...
Nov 17, 2016
Super-welterweights Butler to face Cook in all-Canadian showdown at Bell Centre
MONTREAL - Canada’s top super-welterweights are to clash in the main event when Steven Butler of Montreal faces Brandon Cook of Ajax, Ont., on Jan. 28 at Bell Centre. Butler (18-0-1, 15 knockout...
Nov 17, 2016
Mike Trout, Kris Bryant win baseball's MVP awards
CHICAGO - While the Los Angeles Angels stumbled, Mike Trout soared again. Just too good to ignore. Trout won the AL MVP award Thursday for the second time in three years, and Chicago Cubs third basema...
Nov 17, 2016
AP Source: Premier League sells Chinese TV rights for $700m
LONDON - The English Premier League has sold its television rights in China for $700 million in its biggest-ever overseas sale, a person familiar with the deal said on Thursday. Online video streaming...
Nov 17, 2016
Claimed off waivers from Calgary last season, Byron is thriving in Montreal
MONTREAL - Paul Byron is too busy scoring goals for the Montreal Canadiens to wonder what may have been had the Calgary Flames never put him on waivers. The speedy five-foot-eight, 160-pound winger, w...
Nov 17, 2016
Winger DTH van der Merwe to captain Canada against Romania in rugby test
Winger DTH van der Merwe will captain Canada for the first time in Saturday’s rugby test match against Romania in Bucharest. He takes over from No. 8 Aaron Carpenter, who broke his arm in Canada...
Nov 17, 2016
Irish phenom Conor McGregor moves to No. 2 in UFC pound-for-pound rankings
TORONTO - Irish MMA phenom Conor McGregor, who added the UFC lightweight title to his featherweight championship on the weekend, has moved up to No. 2 in the UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings. McGr...
Nov 17, 2016
Wearable tech designed for Canada's elite swimmers spawns 'swimlytics'
CALGARY - Wearable technology designed to help Penny Oleksiak swim even faster was unveiled Thursday at an Own The Podium sport science and technology summit in Calgary. It looks similar to a Garmin o...
Nov 17, 2016