Category Archives: CP_Sports

NEW YORK - Chipper Jones, Jim Thome and Omar Vizquel are among 19 first-time candidates on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot for baseball’s Hall of Fame. They are joined ...

CALGARY - Defenceman Erin Ambrose and forward Amy Potomak were released from Canada’s national women’s team on Monday. Twenty-six players remain on Canada’s centralization roster: th...

VANCOUVER - Travis Green pulled Brock Boeser aside at the Vancouver Canucks’ development camp in early July for a frank and honest discussion. During the course of that talk, the first-year head...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Retired star pitcher Roy Halladay sped his small sports plane low over the Gulf of Mexico minutes before his fatal crash two weeks ago, climbing sharply in the final seconds be...

REGINA - Saskatchewan head coach and GM Chris Jones said Monday that there’s no point blaming the CFL playoff structure for the Roughriders’ exit from the post-season. The Roughriders were...

TORONTO - Late in third quarter Sunday night, Pascal Siakam chased down Washington’s Mike Scott, gobbling up the distance with each giant stride. Siakam reared up behind the surprised Scott, sma...

TORONTO - DeMar DeRozan has earned the NBA’s Eastern Conference player of the week honour after leading the Raptors to four consecutive wins. It’s the sixth time DeRozan has won the award....

CALGARY - The scene in the Calgary Stampeders locker-room after last year’s Grey Cup is imprinted in Alex Singleton’s brain. A rookie experiencing his first CFL championship game, the deva...

ROME - First it was the captain. Then the coach. And now it’s the president. One by one, the totems of Italian soccer are stepping aside. Gianluigi Buffon made the first move when he announced h...

ATLANTA - One of the nation’s largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of smoke in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta. Nearly 5,000 pounds o...