Category Archives: Sports

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets have named forward Blake Wheeler as their new captain. Wheeler fills the void left by former captain Andrew Ladd, who was dealt to Chicago in February. The six-foot-five, ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Two months before competing in his first international event of the season, Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan still isn’t ready to name a new coach. That suits him just fin...

SASKATOON - Hockey legend Gordie Howe is coming home. A Saskatoon official says the city has received permission from the province to inter the cremated remains of Howe and his wife, Colleen, at the b...

TORONTO - Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and kicker Rene Paredes of the league-leading Calgary Stampeders and receiver Terrence Toliver of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been named the CFL’s top per...

Ricky Ray returns just in time for a crucial stretch for the Toronto Argonauts. Ray will start Wednesday night when Toronto (4-4) hosts the B.C. Lions (6-3) at BMO Field. Ray missed three starts recov...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Switzerland’s supreme court has dismissed Russia’s request to compete at Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. More coming. The Associated Press 2016 The Canadian Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Switzerland’s supreme court says it has dismissed Russia’s appeal to compete at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. The Swiss Federal Tribunal says its judge dismiss...

One significant voice could be missing for several NHL teams when training camps get under way in mid-September. Fourteen of the league’s 30 head coaches will take part in the World Cup of Hocke...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Eight years later, more athletes continue to be stripped of medals from the Beijing Olympics because of positive doping tests. Four athletes, including three Russians, had thei...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - IOC: 4 athletes, including 3 Russians, stripped of medals from 2008 Beijing Olympics after doping samples test positive. The Associated Press 2016 The Canadian Press