StormThe Storm will host Whitecourt Tuesday for the Indigenous Celebration game. Face-off time is set for 7 p.m.The Storm are in second in the North Division, three points back of the first-place Wolverines and have a game in hand.The two sides will also meet Friday night in Whitecourt.NPHLThere are two games in the No...

StormThe Storm won their lone game of the weekend, beating visiting Lloydminster 6-5 in overtime Friday night.Colin Doherty scored the game-winner.The announced attendance was 1288.The Storm host Whitecourt Tuesday in the Indigenous Celebration game. Face-off time will be 7 p.m.NWJHLIn the Northwest Junior Hockey Leagu...

StormThe Storm will host Lloydminster Friday night.Face-off time will be at 6 p.m. The second- place Storm are three points back of first-place Whitecourt.Both teams have clinched playoff spots.The Bobcats are third in the north, six points back of Grande Prairie. NWJHLIn the Northwest Junior Hockey League playoffs, La...

The 2026 Brier that starts Friday in St. John's will be the last for Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue team.The Gushue side will open against Quebec in the first draw. It will start at 4 p.m. Friday Alberta time.Beaverlodge's Geoff Walker has been the lead on the Gushue rink for many years, during which time the ...

Another Storm player will be joining Zachary Wilson at Niagara University next season, as fellow assistant Captain Chase Christensen announced his commitment yesterday.Christensen says "It's been a dream of mine to play college hockey in the States." I want to thank the City of Grande Prairie, as well as the ...

The Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves won a very close opening match at the ACAC Men's Volleyball Championship in Red Deer Thursday afternoon.The Wolves stopped Briercrest College 3-2. Set scores were 24-26, 25-19, 25-20, 26-28 and 16-14.The Wolves will play in a semi-final game Friday evening against Keyano College from...

WINNIPEG - Mark Scheifele scored at 2:06 of overtime to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in front of 13,929 at Canada Life Centre on Tuesday. Cole Perfetti forced the extra frame for Winnipeg, tying the game 2-2 with ...

TORONTO - One streak had to end Tuesday night in Toronto. The Montreal Victoire made sure it wasn't theirs. Marie-Philip Poulin scored the shootout winner as the league-leading Victoire beat the Sceptres 4-3 at Coca-Cola Coliseum for their sixth straig...

TORONTO - Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns each had a double-double to help the New York Knicks fend off the Toronto Raptors 111-95 on Tuesday. Brunson finished with 26 points and 10 assists as New York (40-22) won its third consecutive game. Towns...

TORONTO - When Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady bought a minority stake in the Buffalo Bills, they insisted they'd do more than just contribute to the NFL team financially. That was evident as they hosted Bills Night on Tuesday as the Toronto Raptors hos...

CALGARY - NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was tight-lipped on Tuesday about potential bids to host the 2028 World Cup of Hockey. Bettman, who was in Calgary to attend the Flames-Dallas Stars game in the evening, says he's not going to encourage speculati...

TORONTO - Thousands of soccer fans in Toronto, donning their favourite team colours, gathered Tuesday to celebrate 100 days until the FIFA World Cup kicks off this summer. The event, organized by the City of Toronto at the Rebel nightclub, had live per...

CALGARY - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman declined an opportunity Tuesday to weigh in on the political aspect of the U.S. hockey celebration at the Milan Cortina Olympics, but did say he thought what was portrayed "was unfortunate and not accurate." "I k...

CALGARY - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was hesitant to lay out details about potential bids to host the World Cup of Hockey in Alberta, but suggested Tuesday that there was interest. The NHL and NHL Players' Association announced last year the World C...

Tickets for the playoffs in Mexico that will determine two of the final World Cup berths are being sold by FIFA for less than $17, far less than the $4,185 to $8,680 FIFA is charging for this year's final in New Jersey. FIFA put tickets on sale Tuesday...

Sam La Roue is getting another chance to be a football player. The six-foot-four, 220-pound receiver figured he was done in the sport after the Western Mustangs lost 51-31 to Wilfrid Laurier in the 2024 Yates Cup. But on Friday, La Roue, currently a de...

StormThe Storm will host Whitecourt Tuesday for the Indigenous Celebration game. Face-off time is set for 7 p.m.The Storm are in second in the North Division, three points back of the first-place Wolverines and have a game in hand.The two sides will also meet Friday night in Whitecourt.NPHLThere are two games in the No...

DUNEDIN - Riley Tirotta hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated Canada's national baseball team 10-7 in an exhibition game Tuesday afternoon. Tirotta's homer came after Canada came back to tie the game after giving ...

United States coach Emma Hayes is expecting to face a tougher Canada on Wednesday than the side that meekly succumbed 3-0 to the Americans in July the last time they met. "Canada is in a different place," Hayes told a pre-match news conference Tuesday....

NEW YORK (AP) - Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar was suspended for the 2026 season by Major League Baseball on Tuesday following his second positive test for a performance-enhancing drug. Profar tested positive for exogenous tes...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Jack Hughes was enthralled by Lorne Michaels' stories that highlighted his time at "Saturday Night Live" and enjoyed sharing the stage with brother Quinn and U.S. women's captain Hilary Knight on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fal...

DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) - Max Scherzer says the note his daughter composed asking the Toronto Blue Jays to re-sign the three-time Cy Young Award winner arose as his kids were writing letters to Santa Claus in December. After Scherzer agreed last week to a $...

Game 2 in both semi-final series will be played in the North Peace Hockey League playoffs on Thursday night.Manning is in Grande Prairie. Dawson Creek in Spirit River. Both games start at 8:30.The Comets and Rangers have 1-0 series leads. Manning beat visiting Grande Prairie 5-3 in Game 1 Tuesday night.Spirit River won...

Grande Prairie Storm fans will have to say goodbye to beloved forward and assistant captain Zachary Wilson at the end of the season, as he is committed to joining Niagara University next year.Storm GM Mike Bomersback said he will be missed by all in Grande Prairie, and "seeing him develop as a player and grow as a...

Grande Prairie Storm defenceman Reily Pickford was awarded Rookie of the Week honours after a four-point outing against Devon last weekend.It was a career high for Pickford, who potted his fifth goal of the season and pushed his point total to 21, second most on the Storm's back-end.Currently, the Storm are riding a 16...

Round 2 of the North Peace Hockey League playoffs starts Tuesday night (Feb. 2).Grande Prairie will be in Manning and Spirit River in Dawson Creek as both semi-final series get underway.Both games will start at 8:30 p.m.Grande Prairie and Spirit River both host Game 2 Thursday night.

The Grande Prairie Storm won their lone game over the weekend.The boys hosted the Devon on Sunday (Feb. 22) afternoon, beating the Xtreme 9-2. Grande Prairie's Roghan Walker recorded his first AJHL hat trick in the landslide win.Grande Prairie has clinched a playoff position and sits second in the AJHL's North Division...

A father-son duo from Grande Prairie has been recognized with some awards from Swimming Canada.A story by Jim Morris posted to the organization's website says Oliver Dawson is Swimming Canada's Junior Male Swimmer of the Year and Breakout Performer of the Year for the Olympic Program.Oliver's dad, Alex Dawson, was name...