Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Team member Oliver Dawson won the 200 metre breaststroke at the Canadian Olympic swim trials Wednesday in Toronto.Dawson lowered his own personal best time in the final after breaking the Canadian record for 15 to 17 year olds and the provincial record earlier in the day during preliminarie...

The Storm have promoted Beaverlodge product Chris Schmidt to head coach. He has been with the team as an assistant coach for the past three years. "I am excited for the opportunity to be stepping into the role of head coach. It's a great privilege to be able to work with these young, dedicated athletes who are wor...

One game on Wednesday night will kick off the 2024 Wheatbelt Baseball League season.The Grimshaw Huskies will visit the Peace River Stampeders. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:15.There is also a game Thursday. Rycroft will visit the County Brewers. The start time there will also be 7:15 p.m.For the second time in as...

One province won both gold medals at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships played in Grande Prairie. Ontario beat Alberta 3-0 in the girl's gold medal game Saturday at the Design Works Centre.Ontario also won the boy's gold medal, beating Saskatchewan 4-0 in the final.Organizers cancelled both bronze medal games...

Grande Prairie will be well-represented at Swimming Canada's 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Trials.They will start Monday, May 13 and continue through Sunday, May 19 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.Seven members of the Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Team will be competing.That includes Marissa and Mikayla Laurin, Domini...

The 2024 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship has made the difficult decision to cancel it's Bronze medal games for both the Males and Females.The cause was credited to the ongoing wildfire situation in the Peace region. Photo Courtesy NAHCAt this time, the Gold Medal games remain in place; on the Women's side it wi...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Anthony Edwards scored 27 points to pull the Minnesota Timberwolves out of their mid-series slump and deliver a flawless 115-70 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night to force a Game 7 in this roller-coaster playoff matchup. Jaden McDaniels pitched in 21 points and lockdown defence, and Mi...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Canada earned a straight-sets victory over the Dominican Republic in Volleyball Nations League play Thursday night. The Canadian women won the opening set 25-20 and the second set 25-21 before edging the Dominican Republic 25-22 in the third to clinch the win. Canada led in attacks 44-37 and had seven ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Chris Kreider had a third-period hat trick to help the New York Rangers erase a two-goal deficit and beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 in Game 6 on Thursday night to advance to the Eastern Conference Final. Kreider single-handedly erased the Hurricanes' 3-1 lead entering the final period. The go-ahe...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - So Mi Lee shot a 6-under 66 after getting into the field less than two hours before her tee time and took a two-shot lead Thursday after the opening round of the Mizuho Americas Open got off to a surprising start with the withdrawal of defending champion Rose Zhang because of illness after thre...

TORONTO - Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh has broken her own world record in the women's 400-metre individual medley with a time of four minutes 24.38 seconds at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials. Her time eclipsed her previous record of 4:25.87 from the 2023 Canadian trials in Toronto. The 17-year-old McIntosh, fro...

DEBRECEN, Hungary - The Canadian women's 3x3 basketball team went undefeated Thursday as play opened at an Olympic qualifying tournament. The Canadian squad of Paige Crozon, Katherine Plouffe, Michelle Plouffe and Kacie Bosch opened with a convincing 21-11 win over Chile and followed with a close 19-16 victory over Lit...

PRAGUE, Czechia - Dylan Cozens scored short-handed for his third goal of the tournament as defending champion Canada remained undefeated at the world hockey championship with a 4-1 win over Norway on Thursday. After giving up five third-period goals in a 7-6 overtime win over Austria on Tuesday, Canada left little to c...

Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand wasn't too outraged over the disputed hit he took that's sidelined him for the past two games. Because in his view, hurting players comes with the territory in the postseason. "The more guys you take out, the more advantage your team has," Marchand said Thursday on the eve ...

GUELPH, Ont. - He missed time last season with a concussion but Toronto Argonauts receiver Tom Nield won't be wearing a Guardian cap in CFL games. The CFL announced Wednesday it was giving players the option of wearing the soft protective helmet covers during games this season. But the league did make mouthguards manda...

VANCOUVER - Calvin Pickard is set to start in net for the Edmonton Oilers tonight for Game 5 of their second-round playoff series against the Vancouver Canucks. Pickard stopped 19 shots in the Oilers' 3-2 victory over the Canucks on Tuesday, earning his first NHL playoff win. Edmonton head coach Kris Knoblauch says t...

Lionel Messi continues to lead Major League Soccer, on the field and off it, with a league-high salary of $20,446,977 (all figures in U.S. dollars) this season. According to figures released Thursday by the MLS Players Association, the Argentine star is one of six Inter Miami players making a seven-figure salary or mor...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Xander Schauffele broke the PGA Championship scoring record, seizing on the rain-softened conditions at Valhalla on Thursday with a 9-under 62 to set the early target. Schauffele also tied the major championship record - he already was on that list with a 62 last year in the U.S. Open - on a day ...

GUELPH, Ont. - Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly has formally withdrawn from the CFL club's training camp. Kelly made the announcement Thursday in a statement provided to The Canadian Press. The CFL's outstanding player last year wants to digest the findings of the league-mandated investigation that figured prom...

PRAGUE (AP) - Sweden kept a perfect record at the ice hockey world championship by beating Kazakstan 3-1 on Thursday. Linus Johansson, Marcus Johansson Fabian Zetterlund scored as the Swedes earned a fourth victory to top Group B in Ostrava. Adil Beketayev scored for Kazakhstan. In Group A in Prague, Austria stunned Fi...

WINNIPEG - Chris Streveler won't be flying to football games in a luxury private plane this season, but he's fine with that. The backup quarterback is grateful for the glitz and growth he experienced playing in the NFL, but also really pumped to return to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Streveler had a smile on his face at ...

Calgary businessman Kien Tran has been named chief executive officer of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton and will lead the search for a new high-performance director. The organization announced Tran's appointment in a release Thursday and said he has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking and capital markets i...

Nashville SC has fired coach Gary Smith, just hours after his MLS team defeated Toronto FC 2-0. Nashville (3-4-5) stands 10th in the Eastern Conference and has won two of its last thee matches after a five-game winless streak. Smith, the club's first head coach, had been in charge for seven seasons. Over that time, the...

EDITOR"S NOTE: Dutchyshen has a connection to the Peace. His son Tyler played with the Storm for three seasons from 2003 to 2006. Tyler was with the 2004 edition of the Storm that won the team's first AJHL championship. Long-time TSN broadcaster Darren Dutchyshen has died, the network announced Thursday. TSN said ...

Canada's medallists in Paris will get a bump in podium prize money. A donation by Canadian health-care technology entrepreneur Sanjay Malaviya of Hespeler, Ont., will make a gold medal worth a total of $25,000, silver $20,000 and bronze $15,000 to athletes. The 2024 Olympic Games open July 26 and close Aug. 11 followed...

BANGKOK (AP) - FIFA will urge all 211 national federations to mandate racist abuse in soccer as a disciplinary offense. Soccer's world body also suggests "a global standard gesture for players to communicate racist incidents" to referees - hands crossed at the wrists and raised in the air. A five-pillar pledg...

The Colorado Avalanche live to see another day after a win on Wednesday, while the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers battle for an edge on Thursday. Here are five things to know heading into Thursday's post-season action: BEST-OF-THREE SERIES The Oilers are set to meet the Canucks in Vancouver on Thursday night for...

Asian soccer leaders can have unlimited years in power after their governing body voted to scrap a key pillar of reforms passed after the corruption crisis that rocked FIFA in 2015. Saudi Arabia and Qatar were among four of the 47 Asian Football Confederation members who put the proposal to their annual congress in Ban...