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Canadian moguls star Mikael Kingsbury out four to six weeks with back injury

MONTREAL - Canada's Mikael Kingsbury will miss moguls races for the first time in his World Cup career after suffering a back injury in training on Sunday. The 2018 Olympic gold medallist fractured hi...

Dec 03, 2020

Toronto actor-brothers Stephan James and Shamier Anderson launch The Black Academy

TORONTO - When Toronto-raised actor Stephan James got the inaugural Radius Award at last year's Canadian Screen Awards, he felt incredibly honoured but also a bittersweetness. The elation from being p...

Dec 03, 2020

MLSE reopens giant kitchen to prep meals for local agencies, front-line workers

TORONTO - Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment's giant kitchen is open again. MLSE and its partners, who combined to donate 500,000 meals to front-line workers and community agencies from April to June...

Dec 03, 2020

New Raptors wing DeAndre Bembry wears No. 95 in honour of his late brother

TAMPA, Fla. - A week before the 2016 NBA draft, DeAndre Bembry's brother was shot and killed in their hometown of Charlotte. Bembry went 21st overall to Atlanta in that draft, and he has worn No. 95 i...

Dec 02, 2020

Jays 'prepared' if things pick up on free agency and trade fronts this off-season

The potential for the Toronto Blue Jays to have a memorable off-season is there. Now it appears to be a matter of waiting for the first big dominoes to fall so the action can really begin. Whether Tor...

Dec 02, 2020

Maxime Crepeau wins Allstate Goods Hands Award for save against Iceland

Maxime Crepeau's diving save for Canada against Iceland has earned the 26-year-old goalkeeper the 2020 Allstate Canadian National Teams Good Hands Award. The award, decided by an online fan vote from ...

Dec 02, 2020

Canadian curlers prepare for prospect of a Calgary "bubble"

CALGARY - A potentially lengthy stay in Alberta, and trying to defend a national men's curling championship in front of zero fans, are thoughts circulating in Brad Gushue's mind. The veteran skip from...

Dec 02, 2020

Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86

LOS ANGELES - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks ...

Dec 02, 2020

Canadian defensive lineman Daniel Joseph enjoying a banner first campaign at NC State

Daniel Joseph is making quite the first impression at North Carolina State University. The six-foot-three, 265-pound defensive lineman from Brampton, Ont., has a team-high 6.5 sacks (tied for third in...

Dec 02, 2020

Nurse says a positive attitude around living and playing in Tampa is key

When Nick Nurse coached Derby of the British Basketball League back in the early 1990s, the team could only afford to book the Moorways Centre practice hall two nights a week. Nurse and his team would...

Dec 02, 2020