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Hello again: Michael Azira faces Montreal Impact just three days after trade

It will be strange for Impact players to see former teammate Micheal Azira in Chicago Fire red this weekend - just three days after being traded away from Montreal. The Impact sent Azira and a 2020 dr...

Aug 09, 2019

Vancouver Whitecaps add Canadian striker Tosaint Ricketts

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed Canadian striker Tosaint Ricketts. The deal is for the rest of the season and includes a club option for 2020. A former Toronto FC player, Ricketts, 32,...

Aug 09, 2019

Former international Rhian Wilkinson named head coach of women's youth teams

TORONTO - Former Canadian international Rhian Wilkinson has been appointed head coach of the Canadian women's under-17 and under-20 soccer teams. The 37-year-old Wilkinson will remain an assistant coa...

Aug 09, 2019

Bombers' Bighill says no disrespect to Arbuckle, but not facing Mitchell is a break

WINNIPEG - Linebacker Adam Bighill figures the Blue Bombers are catching a bit of a break since veteran Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell remains sidelined recovering from a shoulder inj...

Aug 09, 2019

Ex-brothers-in-law battle over Habs season tickets spills into courtroom

MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has awarded nearly $45,000 to a man whose former brother-in-law deprived him of their Montreal Canadiens season tickets over a family dispute, ruling that he...

Aug 09, 2019

Wolfpack forward Ashton Sims announces plans to retire at end of season

Toronto Wolfpack forward Ashton Sims has announced plans to retire at the end of the season. The 34-year-old Australian, a pony-tailed man-mountain at six foot four and 245 pounds, has made his living...

Aug 09, 2019

Woods withdraws from Northern Trust, citing oblique strain

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the opening FedEx Cup playoff event with what he calls a mild oblique strain. Woods opened with a 75 on Thursday in The Northern Trust. He says his o...

Aug 09, 2019

Canadian hurdler Watson races to gold medal at Pan Am Games

LIMA, Peru - Sage Watson won gold in the women's 400-metre hurdles Thursday as Canada continued to pile up track and field hardware at the 2019 Pan American Games. Watson, from Medicine Hat, Alta., ra...

Aug 08, 2019

Rays erase 6-run deficit, beat Blue Jays on wild pitch in 10

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - It was a single for almost anyone else. It was a double for Kevin Kiermaier, whose speed in the bottom of 10th inning produced the run to cap Tampa Bay's big comeback. Kiermaier...

Aug 08, 2019

New York Yankees extend winning streak, defeating Toronto Blue Jays 12-6

TORONTO - Gio Urshela hit a pair of home runs as the New York Yankees extended their winning streak to a season-high nine games as they defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 12-6 on Thursday. Mike Tauchman a...

Aug 08, 2019