Category Archives: Sports

Commissioner Randy Ambrosie says CFL draft still on for April 30
TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the league's draft remains on schedule - at least for now. Ambrosie addressed the status of the April 30 draft during a question-and-...
Mar 27, 2020

Toronto FC players busy behind closed doors thanks to some quick thinking
TORONTO - It's been 20-plus years since Jim Liston used to train Greg Vanney and Dan Calichman in a small space in Pasadena, Calif. "We had very little space," Liston recalled. "About 2,000 squar...
Mar 27, 2020

House of Davis Love III destroyed by early morning fire
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - The house of Hall of Fame golfer Davis Love III was destroyed by fire early Friday morning in a blaze that could not be controlled, even with 16 firefighters arriving within m...
Mar 27, 2020

AP sources: MLBers keep service time in deal; draft may trim
NEW YORK - Players agreed to a deal with Major League Baseball that would preserve service time in the event this season is cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but left open details of what...
Mar 27, 2020

2 Olympic champions among 4 Russians with new doping charges
MONACO - Two Olympic gold medallists were among four Russian track and field athletes charged with doping offences. Andrei Silnov, the 2008 Olympic high jump champion, and Natalya Antyukh, the 2012 ch...
Mar 27, 2020

Canada stays at No. 8 in FIFA women's rankings, but now shares spot with Brazil
Canada remains eighth in the latest FIFA women's world soccer rankings, but now has some company. Brazil, which tied Canada 2-2 at the Tournoi de France earlier this month, moved up one spot to join t...
Mar 27, 2020

Let's race 2? NASCAR forced to consider schedule shakeup
It was bump day for the Indy 500. The Indianapolis 500 is now a summer event. The Monster Mile could be set for a monster-sized NASCAR weekend spectacle of racing. And a supersized shakeup of the sche...
Mar 27, 2020

Barcelona to reduce payroll during coronavirus stoppage
BARCELONA, Spain - Barcelona will reduce the salaries of its players amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Spanish club said late Thursday that its executive board decided to temporarily suspend player c...
Mar 27, 2020

Canadian swimmer Markus Thormeyer feels free and fast after coming out
Fear of the unknown was holding Markus Thormeyer back in the pool. When the Canadian swimmer told teammates he was gay, the walls he'd built up came down and Thormeyer felt liberated to swim fast...
Mar 27, 2020

Hold the elevator? How to stay safe in close quarters during COVID-19
It's becoming an increasingly ambiguous scenario: the elevator door opens and someone is already inside. Do you go in, or do you wait for the next one? Public health officials have been urging Canadia...
Mar 27, 2020