RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - It took just one shot and 25 seconds worth of game action for the Vegas Golden Knights to find themselves in a hole in the Stanley Cup final. And by midway through the opening period, they were down two goals against a fast-skatin...

ATLANTA (AP) - Matt Olson hit a tiebreaking homer, Bryce Elder bounced back from his worst start of the season, and the Atlanta Braves defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Tuesday night. Olson's towering shot barely cleared the right-field wall, snapp...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Hours after a report surfaced that he was discussing a succession plan with members of the Board of Governors executive committee, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated that he is not expecting to retire any time soon from the j...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Ilya Safonov to a one-year, two-way contract, the NHL club announced Tuesday. Safonov, 24, played 68 games for Ak Bars Kazan in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League this season, recording 33 points, 4...

The NHL will have a fresh challenge when it comes to setting its 2026-27 schedule with British Columbia and Alberta moving to permanent year-round daylight time this fall. The change will eliminate twice-yearly clock changes in those provinces. The tim...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Goldeneyes have locked up star forward Sarah Nurse as the PWHL's expansion process begins. The team announced Tuesday it has signed Nurse to a two-year contract through the 2027-28 campaign, making her the first of three play...

CHARLOTTE - Alfie Jones has been on a journey, trying to discover what, exactly, it means to be Canadian. As one of the 26 players tabbed to represent Canada at this summer's FIFA World Cup, the Middlesbrough centre back knew he had some research to d...

VANCOUVER - The way Manny Malhotra guided a team to a Calder Cup championship isn't what impressed Vancouver Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson. It was the way the head coach of the American Hockey League's Abbotsford Canucks handled a difficult cam...

HAMILTON - Wynton McManis's debut with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats will have to wait. The Ticats listed the veteran linebacker as being out for their regular-season opener Thursday night versus the Montreal Alouettes at Hamilton Stadium. According to the ...

DENVER (AP) - The Nashville Predators are bringing in Chris MacFarland of the Presidents' Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche to serve as their president of hockey operations/general manager. The Predators announced the hiring of MacFarland on Tuesday. H...

Bo Levi Mitchell isn't showing signs of slowing down. The 36-year-old quarterback is coming off consecutive 5,000-yard passing campaigns with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. And that's a first for a player whose decorated 13-year CFL career includes two Grey ...

A record 1,248 players representing 48 nations are on the final World Cup rosters released by FIFA on Tuesday. The rosters include Lionel Messi of Argentina, Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Guillermo Ochoa of Mexico, who will be competi...

Ryan Dinwiddie is kind of feeling like a first-year head coach again. Dinwiddie enters his sixth CFL season as a head coach but first with the Ottawa Redblacks. He headed to the Canadian capital as head coach and general manager after guiding the Toron...

The 2026 CFL season kicks off Thursday night with the Montreal Alouettes visiting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Here are some of the top players (excluding quarterbacks) worth keeping tabs on this year: Brady Oliveira, RB, Winnipeg -- The Winnipeg native lo...

TORONTO - Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey has been named the WNBA's Eastern Conference player of the week, marking the first weekly honour of her career and the first in franchise history. Mabrey averaged 21 points and 5.5 assists per game while shoo...

NEW YORK (AP) - Zach Werenski of the Columbus Blue Jackets won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman, the league announced Tuesday. Werenski was second in points at the position with 81 on 22 goals and 59 assists. It's the first time he has wo...

EDMONTON - Of all the questions surrounding the Edmonton Elks heading into this CFL season, the only one that really matters is: can they win? The last time the franchise had a winning record was 2017, 12-6 when they were still the storied Eskimos. The...

VANCOUVER - Last season, the BC Lions were just 11 seconds away from advancing to their first Grey Cup since 2011. A Trevor Harris pass to Tommy Nield in the dying moments of the Western Final gave the Saskatchewan Roughriders a 24-21 victory. The Ride...

REGINA - After defeating the Montreal Alouettes 25-16 in November to capture the fourth Grey Cup in franchise history, the Saskatchewan Roughriders capped off their celebration with an epic victory parade through downtown Regina. Head coach Corey Mace ...

WINNIPEG - Too old. Too slow. Too inaccurate. That's some of the criticism Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans have about Zach Collaros as the 37-year-old quarterback enters his 14th CFL season. But it's not the version of Collaros his teammates saw during trai...

PARIS - Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil's Luisa Stefani defeated Germany's Laura Siegemund and Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-4, 7-5 in quarterfinal play Tuesday at the French Open. Dabrowski, from Ottawa, and Stefani needed one hour 52 minutes to c...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - On the eve of the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes, one of the general managers involved laid out his thinking when making roster moves. "We want to be aggressive off the ice," the GM said....

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders seek to build on their turnaround and play in the Grey Cup on home turf in 2026. The comfort level of quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., is higher to start his second season as a Stampeder. Dedrick Mills, the CFL's top rushe...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... U.S. big tech holds 85% of Canadian cloud market, report says ahead of AI strategy As Canada gears up for the release of Ottawa's long-awaited AI strategy, a new ...

EDMONTON - It wasn't the way Alphonso Davies wanted to return to the field in his hometown of Edmonton, but Canada's captain was still happy to be there. Davies got some running in before his teammates took on Uzbekistan in a pre-World Cup friendly at...

EDMONTON - Scoring goals in the World Cup has always been difficult for Team Canada, but head coach Jesse Marsch is feeling a little more confident after watching his men's team perform in a 2-0 win over Uzbekistan in Monday night's international frien...

EDMONTON - The temperature was about 20 degrees warmer and the players dealt with heavy rain on the pitch instead of snow, but the outcome for Canada's national soccer team on Monday night was the same as it was in 2021. Jonathan Osorio scored for Cana...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Goldeneyes have dismissed head coach Brian Idalski after the team's first season. General manager Cara Gardner Morey announced the move Monday, saying in a statement that Idalski faced "unique challenges and opportunities" in...