Category Archives: Sports

Raptors pull away from Pacers 115-106 for 13th straight win
INDIANAPOLIS - Toronto coach Nick Nurse keeps imploring the defending NBA champions to fix their flaws. The bigger challenge, right now, might be identifying those errors. Two days after rallying from...
Feb 09, 2020

Tavares scores in OT, Matthews adds 40th as Leafs survive scare to beat Ducks
TORONTO - It was a script Maple Leafs fans have seen before. Earlier this week, in fact. Up 3-1 in the third period and seemingly in complete control, Toronto allowed&nbs...
Feb 09, 2020

Andrew Copp scores go-ahead goal, Jets come back to beat Blackhawks
WINNIPEG - Andrew Copp scored the go-ahead goal as part of a four-goal third period, and the Winnipeg Jets came from behind to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Sunday. Copp gave Winnipeg a...
Feb 09, 2020

Canadian women qualify for Tokyo Olympics with hard-fought win over Costa Rica
CARSON, Calif. - Canada qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Costa Rica on Friday, thanks to a 72nd-minute goal by teenager Jordyn Huitema in the semifinals of the CON...
Feb 09, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Canada's Nick Taylor wins Pebble Beach Pro-Am by four strokes
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Canada's Nick Taylor has won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He held off Kevin Streelman and golfing great Phil Mickleson to win by four strokes. Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., led the...
Feb 09, 2020

Toronto FC signs veteran Argentina winger Pablo Piatti as third designated player
Toronto FC has signed Argentine winger Pablo Piatti as its new designated player. The 30-year-old Piatti leaves Barcelona-based Espanyol for Major League Soccer on a free transfer. Having passed a med...
Feb 09, 2020

Super Bowl win still sinking in with Montreal's Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
MONTREAL - The enormity of winning the Super Bowl only sunk in for Laurent Duvernay-Tardif when he saw his mother crying on the field. The Chiefs guard became the first Quebec-born player and ninth Ca...
Feb 09, 2020

Probe: Bryant helicopter was 100 feet from clear skies
LOS ANGELES - A witness to the deadly crash of a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others said it sounded normal just before slamming into a hillside and wreckage examined by experts at the sc...
Feb 09, 2020

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford criticizes Athletics Canada's handling of former coach
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is just one track and field athlete angry with Athletics Canada's handling of allegations surrounding former national coach Dave Scott-Thomas. DeBues-Stafford spoke out a...
Feb 09, 2020

Former Maple Leaf and Canada's Sports Hall of Famer Brian Glennie dies at 73
TORONTO - Brian Glennie, a hard-hitting defenceman who spent most of his 10-year career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, has died. He was 73. Glennie, who was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of F...
Feb 09, 2020