Category Archives: Sports

ARLINGTON, Texas - It was a beatdown but this time the bad blood stayed under the surface. Toronto rocked Cole Hamels for five runs in the third inning and a near flawless Marco Estrada delivered 8 1/...

MIAMI - Fear of the damage that powerful Hurricane Matthew may cause prompted two college football postponements Thursday, and had the NFL plotting just-in-case scenarios for games scheduled in Tampa ...

It’s pretty well impossible to go back-to-back in the west. The Detroit Red Wings (2009) were the last team to repeat as champions of the NHL’s top conference, the only such squad to do so...

TORONTO - Is it possible to ingest cocaine by kissing someone who has just snorted the powerful stimulant drug? Enough that its chemical signature would show up on an athlete’s doping tests? Tha...

TORONTO - Woodbine Racetrack has been very good to trainer Mike Maker. The 47-year-old native of Garden City, Mich., has registered six stakes victories at the track, including this year’s Queen...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators will play their final pre-season game Friday against Buffalo with what could be their opening night roster. That group will include forward Ryan Dzingel, a pleasant surpri...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks had a perfect record and were cruising in the CFL East when they met the winless Saskatchewan Roughriders in Week 5 of the season. An upset loss in Regina sent the Redbla...

The Pittsburgh Penguins looked nothing like a threat to win the Eastern Conference, let alone a Stanley Cup, when Mike Johnston was fired in mid-December. That changed when Mike Sullivan spurred a tur...

TORONTO - World champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber has been stripped of his 2016 Canadian title after he tested positive for trace amounts of cocaine. According to the ruling from the Sport Dispute Re...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama honoured the Pittsburgh Penguins at the White House on Thursday for completing what he described as one of the most remarkable turnarounds in the history of th...