Canadian teenager Marina Stakusic advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon women's qualifying tournament with a 6-0, 6-1 win over France's Carole Monnet on Tuesday. Stakusic, 19, from Mississauga, Ont., won nine straight games before Monnet made it 3-1 in the second set. Stakusic responded by winning the next thre...

TORONTO - Toronto's Zach Edey is one of the most hotly anticipated NBA prospects to come out of Canada in several years. But if he ends up on his hometown Raptors or another team remains to be seen. The seven-foot-four, 300-pound centre is expected to be a first-round pick when the NBA Draft begins on Wednesday night a...

DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - Kylian Mbappé scored from the penalty spot on his return after breaking his nose before France conceded a spot kick by Robert Lewandowski in a 1-1 draw with Poland at the European Championship on Tuesday. Mbappé removed his protective mask to celebrate in front of France's fans af...

BERLIN (AP) - Marcel Sabitzer scored late for Austria to advance to the knockout stage of the European Championship as group winner with a 3-2 win over the Netherlands on Tuesday. Austria topped Group D thanks to France drawing with Poland 1-1 in the other game. Both France and the Netherlands were already assured of p...

CALGARY - Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper will lead Canada at the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off and the 2026 Winter Olympics, Hockey Canada announced Monday. It will be Cooper's first time as Canada's head coach since leading the national men's team to a silver medal at the 2017 world hockey championship. Cooper, f...

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets have signed defenceman Dylan DeMelo to a four-year contract extension, the club announced Tuesday. The deal carries an average annual value of US$4.9 million. DeMelo, 31, played all 82 games for the Jets last season, setting career highs with 31 points and 28 assists. He also had a team-bes...

The pressure is heavy, but the opportunity is massive for Malik Metivier. The Toronto hurdler will be competing at the Canadian track and field Olympic trials that run from Wednesday through Sunday in Montreal. Saturday will be the 25-year-old Metivier's final shot at meeting the Olympic standard of 48.70 seconds in th...

DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - Kylian Mbappé returned to France's starting lineup for the match against Poland at the European Championship on Tuesday, eight days after breaking his nose. Mbappé, France's captain, will be wearing a protective mask for the Group D closer at Dortmund's Westfalenstadion. The Real ...

TORONTO - Gold medallist Maude Charron, of Rimouski, Que., will lead Canada's two-person weightlifting team at the Paris Olympics. Charron, who won weightlifting gold at the Tokyo Games in 2021, will compete in the women's 59-kilogram event in Paris. In Tokyo, she lifted 236 kilograms in the 64 kg category, four more t...

If NHL general managers and most scouts are unable to enter Russia to rate the talent in person, player agent Daniel Milstein figured, why not bring his draft-eligible prospects to North America? That was the case earlier in June, when Milstein and several agents with Russian clients held their own combine in Florida, ...