Category Archives: Sports

Roberto Martinez’s Belgium was booed off the pitch against Spain. Gian Piero Ventura watched Italy’s error-prone defence gift goals to France. It was a night to forget for two coaches on t...

TORONTO - Benoit Huot hesitates at the mention of retirement. As the veteran Canadian swimmer heads into his fifth Paralympics, he isn’t thinking too much about how many Games he may have left, ...

CALGARY - Jeff Maggert will try to jumpstart his PGA Champions Tour season with his second straight Shaw Charity Classic title, but he knows history is not on his side. Maggert won last year’s S...

QUEBEC - Montreal Canadiens president Geoff Molson is facing a fine after failing to renew his company’s lobbyist registration on time. Following an investigation by Quebec’s lobbyist comm...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays are bringing back catcher Josh Thole. The club announced Thursday that the knuckleball specialist has been signed to a major-league contract. Thole elected to become a ...

TORONTO - Mike Babcock had just three days to prepare his team for its first game at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Team Canada’s head coach won’t be so pressed for time ahead of the World Cup o...

ZURICH - Soccer great Franz Beckenbauer is a criminal suspect in a World Cup fraud case. Beckenbauer’s home in Austria was raided for evidence on Thursday on behalf of Swiss federal prosecutors ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Yarelys Barrios of Cuba was stripped of the silver medal in the women’s discus from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Thursday after testing positive in a reanalysis of her do...

Wednesday’s Games CFL BC 16 Toronto 13 — NFL Pre-season Washington 20 Tampa Bay 13 — MLB American League Toronto 5 Baltimore 3 Detroit 3 Chicago White Sox 2 Boston 8 Tampa Bay 6 Texa...

NEW YORK - The cramping became so debilitating, Milos Raonic said, he couldn’t grip his racket properly. The Wimbledon runner-up just last month, and seeded No. 5 at the U.S. Open, Raonic began ...