The Grande Prairie Piranhas host the Northern Lights Invitational swim meet Friday through Sunday at the Eastlink Centre. City Hall says in a release that 400 athletes and fans are expected. This means that on Friday, the diving boards are not available all day and the 50-metre pool and Flow Rider are unavailable betwe...

The defending B.C. Men's curling champions have announced the team is breaking up after one season together.Team Catlin Schneider had included Jason Ginter of Dawson Creek (second from left) and Sterling Middleton from Fort St. John (second from right).They won the B.C. men's title in Esquimalt and carried the province...

The Dawson Creek Spring Break-Up Rodeo is set for Friday and Saturday at the Ovintiv Events Centre. Start time is 7:00 PM B.C. time both days. There was also a junior rodeo held earlier on Friday. The slack goes at noon on Saturday. Tickets at www.lakeviewtix.caHigh school rodeo at Evergreen ParkThe Alberta High School...

A Grande Prairie-born, Saskatoon-raised player is going into the Volleyball Canada Hall of Fame.Gavin Schmidt played for the national team from 2007 to 2016 after playing in the ACAC and at the university level.He won a bronze medal with Team Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto and represented our country in the...

The winners of the Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection's 2024 Northwest Alberta Sport Excellence awards were announced at a ceremony at Clarkson Hall on Friday, April 12.Two new categories were added this year, the Junior Official of the Year award, and the Spirit of Sport award.Thirteen athletes, community member...

Chanse Vigen and Dayton Sutherland tied for the top bid among drivers from the Peace at Thursday's tarp auction for the Calgary Stampede's Rangeland Derby.The tarps on their wagons sold for $160,000.00 each. They were third overall behind Kris Molle's $210,000.00 and Kurt Bensmiller's $175,000.00. Molle drew the top bi...

TORONTO - Montreal defender Erin Ambrose, who led all players in scoring last month, has been named one of the The Professional Women's Hockey League's top stars of April. Ambrose had a goal and six assists in four games as Montreal locked up second place in the league standings and home-ice advantage in the first roun...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said Thursday he feels "really good" that he will reach a new contract with the team, mirroring optimism from president and general manager Don Waddell a day earlier. Brind'Amour - considered by many the face of the franchise with his long-running...

EDMONTON - During what they hope is a deep run through the gruelling Stanley Cup playoffs this spring, the Edmonton Oilers will take all the time off they can get. "Rest is always a good thing," captain Connor McDavid said. "Rest is a weapon this time of year." The Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Ki...

TORONTO - Daulton Varsho loves to go all out when tracking down a fly ball but the new smaller foul areas at Rogers Centre have him being a little more cautious. The Toronto Blue Jays completed the second phase of $400 million renovations to their downtown ballpark in the off-season, with the changes designed to improv...

NEW YORK (AP) - The average time of a nine-inning game is 2 hours, 36 minutes through the first full month of the major league season, down 1 minute from 2023 in the second year of the pitch clock. Over objections from the players' association, MLB lowered the timer to 18 seconds from 20 with runners on base while keep...

VANTAA, Finland - Carter George made 23 saves for his second shutout of the tournament as Canada defeated Latvia 4-0 in quarterfinal action Thursday at the world men's under-18 hockey championship. Team captain Porter Martone scored and 16-year-old Gavin McKenna had an assist. McKenna is second in tournament scoring wi...

Home sweet home ice? For Vegas, maybe. Nashville, not so much lately. The defending Stanley Cup champion Golden Knights return home to their "Fortress" on the Strip looking to avoid being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs after losing three in a row to Dallas. The Predators are back in "Smash...

Off the goaltender's mask, off a defenseman's back, nothing but net. Well, at least in the net. That is how Colorado's Casey Mittelstadt got his first goal of the NHL playoffs this year, and it is not the only one. Several players have scored by ricocheting the puck in off a goalie's head, including Dallas' Evgenii Dad...

TORONTO - Auston Matthews will miss the Maple Leafs' must-win Game 6 against the Boston Bruins. Head coach Sheldon Keefe said following today's morning skate the star sniper would be unavailable with Toronto down 3-2 in its first-round playoff series. Matthews was pulled from Game 4 with an illness and didn't play in T...

NEW YORK - Calgary Flames defenceman Oliver Kylington, Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen and Arizona Coyotes goaltender Connor Ingram are the finalists for this season's Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. The trophy is handed out annually to the NHL player "who best exemplifies the qualities of perseve...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Philadelphia 76ers off-court strategy heading into Game 6 of their NBA playoff series is to keep New York Knicks fans out of Wells Fargo Arena on Thursday night. Team owners Josh Harris, David Blitzer and David Adelman and former minority owner Michael Rubin joined forces Wednesday to buy more t...

NEW YORK (AP) - The final cost of the New York Mets' sorry 2023 season has been totaled: $420 million. Major League Baseball finalized its payroll figures for last year, and the Mets finished at a record $319.5 million. In addition to the payroll, New York paid a record luxury tax of $100.8 million after finishing four...

TORONTO - A judo athlete who trains in Toronto has been named to the Olympic refugee team for the Paris Games. Nigara Shaheen was among 36 athletes from 11 different countries introduced by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday. The IOC first entered a refugee team in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio to represen...

DALLAS (AP) - Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin was briefly down on the ice with a bloody nose and a bit dazed after taking a shot to the face from Alex Pietrangelo. That big backhanded swing from Pietrangelo while the two were together against the board was certainly retaliation for the Vegas Golden Knights against Se...

The Edmonton Oilers are, so far, the only Canadian team to punch their ticket to the second round of the NHL playoffs. The Vancouver Canucks can make it two teams with a victory Friday in Nashville, or Sunday in Vancouver. The only game in the NHL tonight is in Toronto, where the Boston Bruins can finish off the Maple ...

EDMONTON - Leon Draisaitl scored twice, Evan Bouchard had three assists, and the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 Wednesday to win their first-round, best-of-seven NHL playoff series in five games. Edmonton eliminated Los Angeles in the opening round for the third year in a row after coming out on top...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs with a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 5 of their first-round series. Leon Draisaitl scored twice for the Oilers who, for the third straight year, eliminated the Kings from the playoff picture. Evan Bouchard added three assi...

DALLAS (AP) - Jason Robertson scored a power-play goal to put Dallas ahead late in the second period after Tyler Seguin took a shot to the face and the Stars beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 in Game 5 on Wednesday night, becoming the first home team to win in this opening-round series that they now lead. Evgenii Dadon...

TORONTO - Natalie Spooner scored twice in leading Toronto to clinching first place in the Professional Women's Hockey League with a 4-1 win over Minnesota on Wednesday. Toronto (12-4-0-7) moved ahead of Montreal (10-3-5-5) in the standings with 44 points, while holding the tiebreaker in case of a tie by regular season'...

Forge FC and Atletico Ottawa, the top two teams in the Canadian Premier League, posted convincing victories in Canadian Championship preliminary-round play Wednesday. Forge, which tops the CPL standings at 3-0-0, dispatched York United FC 3-1 in a game that was decided in the first half, while Atletico Ottawa, second ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Steven Stamkos wants to hoist the Stanley Cup again with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The 34-year-old captain, who can become a free agent this summer, reiterated Wednesday that he'd like to remain with the only franchise he's played for in a stellar 16-season career. And, general manager Julien BriseBoi...

VICTORIA - Rowing Canada chief executive officer Terry Dillon will step down next month ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. Dillon has been CEO of the country's governing body of the sport for the past seven years. His resignation is effective June 30, Rowing Canada said Wednesday in a statement p...