Category Archives: CP_Sports

CALGARY - Up until last week, Calgary Dinos kicker Niko DiFonte didn’t have much experience dealing with reporters. But after booting a game-winning - and Canadian university record-setting - 59...

WOLFVILLE, N.S. - The Acadia Axemen are focused on a rare chance to host the Uteck Bowl rather than the convoluted path they had to take to get there. The Atlantic University Sport champion Axemen (6-...

LONDON - Jessica Breach scored six tries as England downed Canada 79-5 on Friday in the first of a three-match women’s rugby series. Breach scored three tries in the first 30 minutes of the matc...

STAVANGER, Norway - Canadian long-track speedskater Marsha Hudey won her first career individual World Cup medal, claiming silver on Friday in the women’s 500-metre race in Norway. Hudey, of Whi...

HALIFAX - Atlantic Canada’s long-held dream of wooing the CFL east of Montreal has been reignited after the league confirmed it’s in talks with a “professional, enthusiastic and impr...

TORONTO - Twelve days and two review panels after striker Jozy Altidore’s red card for violent conduct, Toronto FC is back where it started from. Which is without the burly U.S. international fo...

GRENOBLE, France - After winning at Skate Canada three weeks ago, Kaetlyn Osmond continued her fine form by taking the lead in the women’s short at the Internationaux de France on Friday. Skatin...

Of all the punches Bret (The Hitman) Hart threw in his professional wrestling career, the one that really sticks out left his boss unconscious on the floor in 1997. “It was only one punch but it...

TORONTO - Carl English could never have foreseen the circuitous route his professional basketball career would take. And now, seven countries, 13 pro teams and three kids later, Newfoundland’s f...

The five men who met on Nov. 26, 1917 to form the National Hockey League could not have dreamed of the 31-team, multi-billion-dollar enterprise it would become a century later. That day the owners of ...