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Lydia Ko gets new year off to the right start with LPGA Tour opener victory, Canada's Henderson places third

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - It took only four rounds for Lydia Ko to put a dismal 2023 LPGA Tour season completely behind her. Ko rediscovered her winning touch Sunday in the season-opening Hilton Grand Vaca...

Jan 21, 2024

Canada's Hannah Schmidt wins second straight World Cup ski cross gold at Nakiska

NAKISKA, ALTA. - Hannah Schmidt doubled her World Cup ski cross victories at Nakiska Ski Resort on Sunday. The 29-year-old from Ottawa parlayed powerful starts out of the gates and over the opening ro...

Jan 21, 2024

Mouat tops Bottcher for Grand Slam of Curling Canadian Open title

RED DEER, Alta. - Scotland's Bruce Mouat defeated Canada's Brendan Bottcher 6-5 to win the men's Grand Slam of Curling Co-op Canadian Open title on Sunday. After Bottcher knotted the game at 2-2 in th...

Jan 21, 2024

Tarasenko, Giroux help lift Senators to 5-3 comeback win over Flyers

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Vladimir Tarasenko and Claude Giroux scored third-period goals and the Ottawa Senators came back to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 on Sunday in Shane Pinto's return to the line...

Jan 21, 2024

Flames forward Dillon Dube on indefinite leave to attend to mental health

Calgary Flames forward Dillon Dube has been granted an indefinite leave to attend to his mental health, the team announced Sunday. The 25-year-old from Golden, B.C., is under the care of professionals...

Jan 21, 2024

Dricus Du Plessis wins middleweight title after gruelling war of attrition at UFC 297

TORONTO - Middleweight champion Sean Strickland and challenger Dricus (Stillknocks) Du Plessis had promised their UFC 297 showdown would be a war. "To the death," crowed Strickland before the fight. I...

Jan 21, 2024

Canada's Dabrowski advances to women's doubles quarters at Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia - Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe moved on to the women's doubles quarterfinals on Sunday. The duo defeated China's Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo 4-6, 6-1...

Jan 21, 2024

Shiffrin gets career win 95 in first World Cup slalom after season-ending injury for rival Vlhova

JASNA, Slovakia (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin earned her record-extending career win 95 by triumphing in a women's World Cup slalom Sunday, a day after the American ski star's main rival sustained a season-...

Jan 21, 2024

German skier Strasser takes Kitzbuehel slalom for 1st win in 2 years. Feller leads season standings

KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) - German skier Linus Strasser got down on his knees and kissed the snow on an Austrian slope he has known since he was a child, with his wife Maria and their one-year-old daug...

Jan 21, 2024

Challenger Dricus du Plessis wins split decision over Sean Strickland at UFC 297

TORONTO - South African challenger Dricus (Stillknocks) Du Plessis dethroned middleweight champion Sean Strickland, winning a split decision after a five-round gruelling battle in the main event of UF...

Jan 20, 2024