Category Archives: Sports

CHICAGO - Researchers are tackling fresh questions about a degenerative brain disease now that it has been detected in the brains of nearly 200 football players after death. The suspected cause is rep...

WINNIPEG - Jets co-owner Mark Chipman had no doubt general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff and head coach Paul Maurice deserved their multi-year contract extensions that were announced Thursday. The team h...

CALGARY - Patrick Jarvis believed he’d met all the criteria at the national championship to run the 1,500 and 800 metres for Canada at the 1988 Paralympic Games. He was told, however, that Canad...

BOSTON - Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia says he doesn’t think he did anything wrong when he tried to steal signs from the New York Yankees. The 34-year-old Pedroia said Wednesday that he&...

MONTREAL - Boxing Canada named Joao Carlos Soares Gomes de Barros as coach of the national team on Wednesday. The search began a year ago when the Keegan Report - an independent analysis of the federa...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Canada suffered its third straight loss at the World Rugby U20 Trophy, beaten 45-28 by Chile on Wednesday. Canada will close out play Sunday, needing a win to finish seventh at t...

BOYDS, Md. - Canadian international goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe is taking a medical leave of absence from the Washington Spirit for the remainder of the NWSL season. Neither Labbe nor the soccer team g...

DETROIT - The choice of Kid Rock as the opening act for a new sports arena in mostly black Detroit has injected the musician into the national debate over race and culture because of his embrace of th...

Travis Lulay and the B.C. Lions have had plenty of time to ponder what’s ailing the CFL team. B.C. (5-5) returns to action Thursday night at home against the Montreal Alouettes (3-7). The Lions ...

NEW YORK - The Latest on fraud charges against sports radio personality Craig Carton, a host of WFAN’s “Boomer and Carton” show (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Sports radio personality ...