Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - While Toronto FC is enjoying its most successful season on the pitch, the MLS franchise won’t make money this season. But the bottom line has been boosted by the current playoff run an...

OTTAWA - There are positives in the Ottawa Senators’ game right now, but offence isn’t one of them. Ottawa has gone nine straight games scoring two goals or less, going 1-for-26 on the pow...

NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan was named Eastern Conference player of the week on Monday while Houston Rockets guard James Harden took the Western Conference honour. DeRozan led all NB...

CHICAGO - Folk singer Steve Goodman’s “Go Cubs Go” about his beloved Chicago Cubs is a hit decades after he died - and months after his relatives sold the rights to his song collecti...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - When the city of Glendale backed out of an arena lease deal with the Arizona Coyotes last year, it put the future of the franchise in doubt yet again. Turns out, Glendale may have do...

LAS VEGAS - A 42-year-old runner dressed as Elvis won the Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon on Sunday night, setting a record for the fastest marathon run by someone dressed as “The K...

MOSCOW - The Kontinental Hockey League, widely considered the world’s strongest hockey competition outside the NHL, is considering cutting teams because of financial pressure. A recession in Rus...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African government says convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius has been moved at his request to a prison that is better able to accommodate disabled offenders. The Department of C...

TORONTO - The NHL hopes to inch closer to a decision on the 2018 Olympics later this week. League officials will meet with the International Ice Hockey Federation in New York on Wednesday. Deputy comm...

So much about the career of Eric Lindros reads like a Hollywood script, including where the incoming Hall of Famer lived when he entered the National Hockey League. It was about a month into Lindros&#...