Category Archives: CP_Sports

TORONTO - Avie’s Flatter was installed as the early 3-1 Queen’s Plate Winterbook favourite Friday. The hypothetical Winterbook offers an early look at the 84 three-year-olds, including 11 ...

Kevin Cheveldayoff joked the trade deadline was “just another Monday.” It wasn’t. The point the Winnipeg Jets general manager was attempting to make, however, was nothing comes easy ...

Winning is important to longtime football coach Greg Marshall, but not at the expense of player safety. Marshall has won plenty in the game. He captured the 1980 Hec Crighton Trophy as a running back ...

TORONTO - He has played Canadian university football and coached the game, but Todd Smith is waiting before he lets his two sons get on the field. “I’m not in a rush to put my kids into fo...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Robert Wickens says he will be in a race car again, saying it’s “all I know.” Sitting in a wheelchair and looking to be in good spirits, the Canadian driver ta...

TORONTO - Shane Wright has become the sixth player to be admitted early entry into a Canadian Hockey League draft under the exceptional-player rule. The Ontario Hockey Federation announced Friday that...

BEIJING - Canada’s Jennifer Abel captured two medals on Friday at the second Diving World Series event of the season. The 27-year-old native of Laval, Que., won bronze in the women’s three...

MONTREAL - Given the Montreal Impact’s continued struggles on the road, goalkeeper Evan Bush wanted to give his side a leg up - so he probed the opposition. Bush reached out to former teammate D...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Thailand has volunteered to ban itself from Tokyo Olympic Games weightlifting next year because of doping, another blow to a sport whose place on the Olympic program is precarious....

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps know that playing on the road isn’t easy. Travel can be gruelling, especially for squads that call the West Coast home. A stadium full of opposing fans can be...