Category Archives: Sports

CFL and CFLPA resume talks in attempt to hammer out a new labour deal
TORONTO - With their current labour deal set to expire at midnight ET, representatives from the CFL and CFL Players' Association resumed talks Saturday in an attempt to hammer out a new collective bar...
May 14, 2022

Baseball Canada to retire No. 19 from women's national team program to honour Asay
OTTAWA - Baseball Canada plans to formally retire No. 19 from the women's national team program to honour Amanda Asay, who died in a skiing accident in January at age 33. A commemorative jersey patch ...
May 14, 2022

Liverpool beats Chelsea to win FA Cup, keep quad hopes alive
LONDON (AP) - Liverpool beat Chelsea in the first-ever FA Cup final penalty shootout at Wembley to stay in contention for, potentially if unlikely, a quadruple of trophies on Saturday. Just like in th...
May 14, 2022

Leon Draisaitl's status for Game 7 of Oilers-Kings series unclear
Edmonton head coach Jay Woodcroft isn't saying whether Leon Draisaitl will be in the lineup when the Oilers host the L.A. Kings in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night. Draisai...
May 14, 2022

AP source: Bauer’s appeal of suspension to begin May 23
NEW YORK (AP) - Trevor Bauer's arbitration appeal of his unprecedented two-year suspension under Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy has been scheduled to start May 23, a person familiar ...
May 14, 2022

20 injured in Milwaukee shootings after Bucks playoff game
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Twenty people were injured in two shootings in downtown Milwaukee near an entertainment district where thousands of people had been watching the Bucks play the Celtics in the NBA's Ea...
May 14, 2022

China cites pandemic and withdraws as host of 2023 Asian Cup
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - China withdrew as host of soccer's 2023 Asian Cup on Saturday in the latest cancellation of the country's sports hosting duties during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Asian Fo...
May 14, 2022

Stars double Flames 4-2 to force playoff series to seventh game
DALLAS - The Calgary Flames and Dallas Stars will take their playoff series the distance to a seventh and deciding game. Dallas doubled the visiting Flames 4-2 on Friday to even up their conference qu...
May 13, 2022

Olympic champion Kelsey Mitchell takes silver at Nations Cup track cycling
MILTON, Ont. - Canadian cyclist Kelsey Mitchell had a specific gameplan for the women's sprint final against Emma Hinze on Friday night at the Tissot UCI Track Nations Cup. "I wanted to make it hurt,"...
May 13, 2022

Lowe, Margot help Rays hand Blue Jays 5th straight loss
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Brandon Lowe hit a pair of triples and Manuel Margot had a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning, leading the Tampa Bay Rays over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 Friday night. ...
May 13, 2022