EDMONTON - More women and girls are playing hockey in Canada every year, but the country's governing body of the sport says it still isn't enough. Female hockey registration in Canada has risen year over year to 115,000 last season. Hockey Canada's go...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - Canadian freestyle skier Naomi Urness struck gold in women's big air World Cup competition on Saturday. The Mont-Tremblant, Que., native had a score of 156.25. Ukraine's Kateryna Kotsar (152.50) and China's Yang Ruyi (148.50) rounde...

TORONTO - Tristan Jarry was at home Friday morning when his phone rang. Pittsburgh Penguins general manager and president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas was on the line. He needed to see the veteran goaltender right away. Jarry had no idea his time pl...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO - Canadian snowboarder Kaylie Buck earned World Cup silver in the women's parallel giant slalom event on Saturday. The Oakville, Ont., native finished with a time of one minute 17.35 seconds. Austria's Sabine Payer (1:15.99) defeated ...

Atletico Ottawa will shift its CONCACAF Champions Cup first-round game with Nashville SC to Forge FCs Hamilton Stadium due to renovations at Ottawa's TD Place Stadium. The Canadian Premier League champion will face the MLS side in the first leg Feb. 17...

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Lexi Thompson and Wyndham Clark shared the lead Friday with Charley Hull and Michael Brennan, both teams making only three pars in the scramble format as each posted a 17-under 55 to set the scoring record in the Grant Thornton Invi...

Piper Gilles shook her head as the scores popped up on the screen. She and Paul Poirier had just delivered their cleanest free dance of the season at the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan. The kind of skate that has landed the Canadian duo on the world...

ATHABASCA - Mounties in northern Alberta say there were multiple injuries after a bus carrying a junior hockey team went off a slippery and snow-covered highway. Police said the bus went into a ditch south of Athabasca early Friday, and two teens were ...

OTTAWA - Not surprisingly, Atletico Ottawa has confirmed head coach Diego Mejia will be back next season. Mejia, 42, led Ottawa to the North Star Cup for the first time in club history with a 2-1 win over Cavalry FC in the Nov. 9 Canadian Premier Leagu...

CALGARY - Forward Marek Vanacker has been added to Team Canada's camp ahead of the world junior hockey championship, Hockey Canada announced Friday. The 19-year-old from Delhi, Ont., has 26 goals and 15 assists in 26 games with the Ontario Hockey Leagu...

Lance Gibson Jr. was eating a late dinner Monday when the call came, telling him to pack his bags and be ready to jump on a plane because the UFC might need him on Saturday's UFC Fight Night card in Las Vegas. "I was running around, grabbing all my gea...

LONDON (AP) - Vicky Mboko, Janice Tjen, Lilli Tagger, Arnaud Bailly and Luka Mikrut were selected by a panel as the International Tennis Federation's Class of 2025, a group considered "promising and breakthrough" talents of the sport. The five players ...

TORONTO - Toronto Blue Jays president and chief executive officer Mark Shapiro has signed a five-year contract renewal, Rogers Communications announced Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The extension comes on the heels of the Blue Jays' first...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers made an anticipated move in net Friday, sending longtime starter Stuart Skinner to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Tristan Jarry. The Oilers included defenceman Brett Kulak and a second-round draft pick in 2029 in the package...

Canada's trip to the inaugural FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup did not help its world ranking. The Canadian women fell two places to No. 76 after failing to reach the knockout round at the recent 16-country tournament in the Philippines in the wake of lo...

VAL THORENS - Kevin Drury had tears running down his face after winning his first race in five years. The 37-year-old from Toronto topped the podium at a men's World Cup ski cross event Friday. "It's just the work that gets put in behind the scenes," h...

Canadian middleweight Marc-Andre (Powerbar) Barriault will face Poland's Michal (Hussar) Oleksiejczuk on Feb. 7 on a UFC Fight Night card in Las Vegas. It will be the 17th outing of an up-and-down UFC career for the hard-nosed Barriault. The 35-year-ol...

The queen of downhill skiing is well and truly back. At age 41, still faster than the rest. Lindsey Vonn raced to a stunningly fast win in a World Cup downhill at St. Moritz on Friday to earn her first victory in nearly eight years - and the first in h...

Canadian strawweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson's message was simple in the wake of her TKO win over Marina Rodriguez in May. "I want Amanda Lemos next," Robertson said. She gets her wish Saturday in Las Vegas, although the road to the matchup with...

EDMONTON - Having a healthy Zach Hyman back and finding his game again bodes very well for the Edmonton Oilers. Hyman scored three goals and Connor McDavid had four primary assists as the Oilers emerged with a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on ...

WINNIPEG - The Boston Bruins overpowered the Jets in their own barn. The Bruins scored two power-play goals in the first period to eventually take a 3-2 lead, then held their opponents to one goal for the rest of the match to secure a 6-3 victory befor...

TORONTO - The Maple Leafs limped out of the Bell Centre last month. Toronto had just fallen 5-2 to the Montreal Canadiens, owned the NHL's worst goals-against average, and were a complete mess defensively. Despite falling 3-2 in overtime to the San Jos...