Category Archives: Sports

HALIFAX - An expert panel promised after high school rugby was banned then reinstated in Nova Scotia this year has begun its work. The 17-member inter-school sport safety review panel is expected to r...

Jamie Cudmore says the time was right to come home. The 40-year-old former Canadian international, one of Canada's best-known rugby exports, is leaving France to groom the next wave of rugby...

TORONTO - The Canadian senior men's basketball team has named Nate Bjorkgren, Brad Greenberg, Nathaniel Mitchell and Jon Goodwillie as assistant coaches for the FIBA World Cup later this summer in Chi...

PORTRUSH, Ireland - The noise was unlike anything Shane Lowry had ever heard on a golf course, no surprise at the first British Open in these parts in 68 years and an Irishman atop the leaderboard at ...

WINNIPEG - Defenceman Neal Pionk has signed a two-year, US$6-million contract with the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets announced the signing of the restricted free agent on Sunday. The deal car...

GWANGJU, Korea, Republic Of - Canadian swimmer Maggie MacNeil has won the country's first gold medal at the world aquatic championships. The 19-year-old from London, Ont., competing on her first senio...

EDMONTON - Team New Zealand, trailing the field early, stormed back in the final three legs to win the elite mixed relay at the World Triathlon Series Sunday. Hayden Wilde, running the anchor leg, mat...

WINNIPEG - Quarterback Matt Nichols set a new team record for consecutive pass completions as his Winnipeg Blue Bombers shut the Ottawa Redblacks out Friday night, walking away with their fifth straig...

DETROIT - Danny Jansen was hitless in his first three at-bats when he tried to change his luck - by shaving his moustache. "Got a hit right after," the Toronto catcher said. "Maybe I'm a little supers...

WIDNES, England - The Toronto Wolfpack clinched the regular-season title in the second-tier Betfred Championship on Sunday, running its rugby league win streak to 16 games with a hard-fought 24-19 com...