Category Archives: CP Sports
Soccer official with Iranian ties says he is shocked national team won't play in B.C.
VICTORIA - Babak Shahbazi has travelled to France, Germany, Brazil and Russia to watch the Iranian national team play for the World Cup, and when he heard that Iran could be playing in Vancouver in th...
Dec 07, 2025
Focus on physicality paying off for Victoire early in PWHL season
LAVAL - The Montral Victoire entered the Professional Women's Hockey League off-season wanting to become a more physical team, and in their third game of the season - a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Sc...
Dec 07, 2025
Desbiens makes 11 third-period saves, backstops Victoire to win over Sceptres
LAVAL - Ann-Rene Desbiens made 20 saves, including 11 in the third period, as the Montral Victoire defeated the Toronto Sceptres 3-1 in Professional Women's Hockey League action Sunday afternoon at Pl...
Dec 07, 2025
Scheib caps World Cup ski stop at Tremblant with win; Grenier out after first run
MONT-TREMBLANT - Valrie Grenier wasn't able to repeat Saturday's exploits in the second leg of the Mont-Tremblant alpine skiing World Cup. Austria's Julia Scheib raced to a giant slalom victory Sunday...
Dec 07, 2025
Canada wins silver in women's team sprint at World Cup speed skating stop
HEERENVEEN - Canadian speed skaters capped the final day of the third World Cup stop of the season with a silver in women's team sprint. Calgary's Brooklyn McDougall, Batrice Lamarche of Quebec City a...
Dec 07, 2025
Star freestyle skier Kingsbury withdraws from moguls final at World Cup opener
RUKA - Star freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury withdrew before the start of men's small final at Sunday's World Cup moguls season opener. Kingsbury, who entered the event with 99 career World Cup victor...
Dec 07, 2025
Eager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals 'fun' at Putnam competition
ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William L...
Dec 07, 2025
Canadian women finish sixth for second week in a row on rugby sevens circuit
CAPE TOWN - Canada finished sixth for the second week in a row on the rugby sevens circuit, giving up a late try in a 12-10 loss to Japan on Sunday at the HSBC Cape Town SVNS. It was Japan's third str...
Dec 07, 2025
Raty's three-point night fills void at centre for short-staffed Vancouver Canucks
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Canucks president Jim Rutherford stated at the end of last season that he wanted to upgrade the team's depth at centre. Facing one of the hottest teams in the NHL in the Minnesot...
Dec 07, 2025
Edmonton Oilers starting to emerge from early-season mediocrity
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers seem to be waking up from their latest traditional slumberous start to a season. Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard each had a goal and an assist as the Oilers exploded ou...
Dec 07, 2025