Canada will look to keep its historic World Cup run alive Sunday when it takes on South Africa in the round of 32 in Los Angeles. The matchup will mark the first time each nation has reached the tournament's knockout phase. The Canadians earned a spo...

SEATTLE (AP) - An Iranian fan rushed the field in celebration, necessitating seven security guards to successfully bring him down. Shoja Khalilzadeh ripped his jersey off before being mobbed by the entire Iran team after he fired a shot ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - With a flurry of of goals, Belgium finally found its footing at the World Cup. Leandro Trossard scored a pair of goals and Belgium overcame a slow start in the tournament to advance to the knockout roun...

REGINA - Mike Miller rolled the dice and his successful gambit resulted in the Toronto Argonauts claiming a 40-34 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday. Trailing 17-13 with just 24 seconds remaining in the first half, the Argos took over ...

TORONTO - Needing an offensive spark as they enter the second half of the season, the Toronto Blue Jays are expected to promote power-hitting prospect Sean Keys from triple-A Buffalo on Saturday. The anticipated move comes after the Blue Jays (39-43) d...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - Spain defeated Uruguay 1-0 after another goalkeeping mistake by Fernando Muslera, advancing to the knockout stage of the World Cup and eliminating the South American powerhouse on Friday. Uruguay, a two-time cha...

TORONTO - Nathan Eovaldi struck out nine over seven shutout innings as the Texas Rangers hung on to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Friday. Eovaldi (8-7) scattered five hits and walked only one in his 92-pitch outing as the Blue Jays (39-43) suffer...

HOUSTON (AP) - Tiny Cape Verde defied odds to become the smallest country to earn a spot in the World Cup knockout round behind the stellar play of Vozinha, the 40-year-old goalkeeper who embodied the grit of his nation. "We are small," ...

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) - Ina Yoon stretched her lead at the Women's PGA Championship with a 3-under 69 that put her five strokes up on the second-place pack after another strong South Korean showing Friday. Yoon, who shot a record 63 in the f...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - The Los Angeles Angels fired general manager Perry Minasian midway through their sixth consecutive disappointing season under his leadership. The last-place Angels appointed former Cardinals GM John Mozeliak to be t...

BUFFALO - Caleb Malhotra didn't understand why his request was going unfulfilled. He simply wanted to play on the same team as his famous father. Malhotra was around six years old when he asked his mom, Joann, to enrol him with the Vancouver Canucks so...

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - Scottie Scheffler could not convert a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Friday at the Travelers Championship, narrowly missing out on a chance to join Jim Furyk as the only players in PGA Tour history with two sub-60 rounds. S...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) - Defenceman Brandt Clarke has agreed to a five-year, $37 million deal to stay with the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings announced the deal Friday for Clarke, the eighth overall pick in 2021 who has grown into the new cornerstone of...

VANCOUVER - Belgium has defeated New Zealand 5-1 in Vancouver's final World Cup group stage match at BC Place, dashing the dreams of the Kiwi team and its supporters. The win for the European team means it will advance to the knockout round, while New...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - France forward Ousmane Dembélé scored a first-half hat trick, including one off a feed from Kylian Mbappé, to help his team beat Norway 4-1 at the World Cup on Friday. Dembélé's goals came in the seventh, 20th and 32nd minutes....

TORONTO (AP) - Senegal needed to win and it needed to win big. Done and done. Senegal racked up the goals on a 10-man Iraq in a 5-0 victory Friday that helped advance it to the World Cup knockout stages. "The job is done, bu...

PONOKA - Paraders waved both Canada and Alberta flags high as many in the crowd cheered louder for tossed candy than politicians at the annual rodeo parade in the town of Ponoka. Tensions over Alberta's fall referendum on the province's place in Canada...

TORONTO - Quarterback Brendan Sorsby, permanently ruled ineligible by the NCAA for sports betting, won't be kick-starting his pro football career in Canada. The CFL announced Friday it won't allow the Texas Tech quarterback to sign with any of its team...

VANCOUVER - Forward Tani Oluwaseyi knows Canada can't afford another slow start when it faces South Africa on Sunday in a FIFA World Cup knockout match in Los Angeles. In its opening World Cup game against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto, Canada gave up ...

Oklahoma City further reduced its potential luxury tax bill for next season by agreeing to trade elite 3-point shooter Isaiah Joe to the Detroit Pistons for two second-round draft picks, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on ...

TORONTO - An organization representing Toronto hotels says demand for accommodations in the city is down as more rooms stood empty during the first two weeks of the World Cup than in the same time last year. Sara Anghel, president of the Greater Toront...

VANCOUVER - Consumer Protection BC is investigating complaints about ticket reseller StubHub from people who say they didn't receive their World Cup tickets. The regulator's spokeswoman Louise Hartland said in a statement Friday that the agency has an ...

An Olympic berth is available, but neither head coach Rachel Lessard nor quarterback Sara Parker see it as the biggest prize for Canada at the world women's flag football championship. Canada will compete at the International Federation of American Foo...

Pavel Dorofeyev is heading to the New York Rangers as part of a trade at the NHL draft on Friday night, as they hope the high-scoring winger helps supercharge their retooling effort. The Rangers acquired Dorofeyev from Vegas for the Nos. ...

EASTBOURNE - Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil's Luisa Stefani advanced to the women's doubles final of the Eastbourne Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Hungary's Fanny Stollar and Asia Muhammad of the United States on Friday. Dabrow...

WINNIPEG - Kevin Cheveldayoff is listening to offers for Winnipeg Jets star netminder Connor Hellebuyck. But the team's general manager wouldn't tell media on a pre-NHL draft video call Friday morning if the three-time Vezina Trophy winner has asked fo...

TORONTO - Some LGBTQ+ fans of the Toronto Tempo say they're disheartened they're being forced to choose between attending the team's first-ever Pride game and a beloved Pride event this weekend because the match directly overlaps with the annual Dyke M...

OTTAWA - William Eklund isn't likely to forget being at a recent Pitbull concert in Stockholm, and it has nothing to do with the music. While at the concert Tuesday night, the 23-year-old Swedish forward got a call from San Jose Sharks general manager ...