Category Archives: Sports

CALGARY - Playing with the likes of Bernhard Langer and Tom Watson helped motivate Paraguay’s Carlos Franco to win his first professional golf tournament since 2004. Franco shot a final round 7-...

RIO DE JANEIRO - A high-ranking Olympic official is declining to answer police questions related to alleged ticket scalping during last month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. A police official...

RIO DE JANEIRO - When Chantal Petitclerc competed at the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona, her wheelchair races went directly to finals. There weren’t enough athletes to require heats. The Paralymp...

EDMONTON - The longest baseball game ever may have been played in Edmonton on the long weekend. The 72-hour, 237-inning game still needs official confirmation from Guinness World Records. The marathon...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have a clean bill of health and it couldn’t have come at a better time. As the race for post-season play in Major League Soccer heats up, four previously injured p...

NEW YORK - Beating Rafael Nadal at the U.S. Open took a lot out of Lucas Pouille, and Gael Monfils took full advantage, reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal since 2008. The 10th-seeded Monfils beat...

RIO DE JANEIRO - With the Rio Paralympics set to begin Wednesday, organizers say ticket sales have jumped from around 200,000 to 1.6 million, and a spirit of optimism now pervades the cash-strapped ev...

OTTAWA - When Braden Holtby last represented Canada on the international stage it was almost a decade ago and he barely played. The 26-year-old from Lloydminster, Sask., has been slowly inching upward...

CALGARY - Marie-Philip Poulin, Natalie Spooner, Meaghan Mikkelson and Hayley Wickenheiser are among the top 44 players invited to attend the Canadian women’s hockey team camp starting Sunday in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - When David Eng made his Paralympic debut 12 years ago in Athens, coach Mike Frogley would jot down a word each day and pin that word on the wall. They were words like “leadershi...