Category Archives: Sports
Canada sending 'best squad' to FIFA World Cup on home soil: coach
CHARLOTTE - Jesse Marsch believes the team Canada fields in this summer's FIFA World Cup could be the best the country has ever put forward. Injuries may linger, the head coach said, but the 26-player...
May 29, 2026
Habs enter Game 5 of Eastern Conference final down 3-1 to dominant Hurricanes
RALEIGH - The Montreal Canadiens are fighting for their playoff lives tonight as they take on the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the NHL's Eastern Conference final. The Canadiens enter the game in R...
May 29, 2026
Wembanyama, Spurs send the West finals back to Oklahoma City for Game 7, routing the Thunder 118-91
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Victor Wembanyama had 28 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks and the San Antonio Spurs sent the Western Conference finals back to Oklahoma City for Game 7, routing the Thunder 118-...
May 28, 2026
Wembanyama was all business in Game 6 of West finals. It earned him and the Spurs a chance at Game 7
Victor Wembanyama looked different in Game 6. In every way. There was the long robe that the San Antonio star wore to his home arena on Thursday night, done to celebrate an Islamic holiday but also re...
May 28, 2026
Shrey Parikh wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in lightning round
WASHINGTON (AP) - Shrey Parikh felt the pressure of arriving at the Scripps National Spelling Bee as a favorite, but his confidence showed every time he got a word he knew. And when it all came down t...
May 28, 2026
NBA player Terry Rozier hit with new bribery charges in sports gambling sting
Federal prosecutors have indicted ex-Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier on additional charges in connection with a sports gambling sting, alleging he took a hefty bribe to exit a game early in March 2023. ...
May 28, 2026
Alex Smalley back in position to win at Colonial after 3rd-round lead at PGA gets away
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Alex Smalley was right back in a position to win at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial two weeks after the third-round leader at the PGA Championship settled for second ...
May 28, 2026
Bases-loaded walk lifts the Blue Jays to a 2-1 victory over the Orioles
BALTIMORE (AP) - Yohendrick Piango drew a bases-loaded walk from Anthony Nunez in the eighth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night. George Spri...
May 28, 2026
Four new PWHL general managers gear up for different expansion
Complex, but necessary, is what the general managers of the Professional Women's Hockey League's four new teams say about the expansion process. The PWHL held a seven-round expansion draft last year w...
May 28, 2026
Nervous feeling lingers for players ahead of Canada's World Cup roster decision
CHARLOTTE - Alfie Jones knows he could be in for a long night on Thursday. The centre back is one of the 32 players at Canada's pre-World Cup training camp in Charlotte, N.C., this week. He's hoping t...
May 28, 2026