MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester City won a record fourth-straight Premier League title on Sunday by beating West Ham 3-1 in the final game of the season. City is the first team to be crowned champion of English soccer's top division four years in a row after holding off the challenge of second-place Arsenal, whic...

LUTON, England (AP) - Luton has been relegated after just one season in the Premier League. The team lost 4-2 at home to Fulham on the final day of the season on Sunday and joins Sheffield United and Burnley in going down to the second-tier Championship. Luton needed to beat Fulham and for Nottingham Forest, which bega...

IMOLA, Italy (AP) - In the real world or the virtual world, Max Verstappen remains the driver to beat. The defending Formula 1 champion held off a challenge from McLaren's Lando Norris to win the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday and extend his standings lead. Verstappen doubled up this weekend by taking part in an o...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - At the Rugby World Cup in 2022, Canada pushed top-ranked England to the limit before falling 26-19 in the semifinal. eventually finishing fourth at the tournament. On Sunday, the Canadian women took the next step with a historic 22-19 victory over New Zealand, winning the Pacific Four Series...

Toronto FC's bid under John Herdman to put its recent dismal past behind it took a step forward Saturday with a lopsided 5-1 win over CF Montreal. Victories over TFC's archrival are always welcome, especially if they are emphatic. But Saturday's romp improved Toronto's record to 7-6-1, good for 22 points which matched ...

Today is an off day for the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers as they prepare for Monday's winner-take-all Game 7 showdown at Rogers Arena. The Florida Panthers, New York Rangers and Dallas Stars have off days, too, but they'll be watching Monday to see which Canadian team joins them in the final four. Here are fiv...

EDMONTON - All season long, the Vancouver Canucks have preached resilience. Now comes the ultimate test. After an ugly 5-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday, the Canucks need to once again showcase their ability to bounce back as the two teams prepare for a decisive Game 7 Monday in the second-round playoff serie...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Fancy Bermudez scored two tries as Canada recorded a historic rugby win over New Zealand on Sunday, holding on to dispatch the reigning World Cup champion 22-19 and win the Pacific Four Series. The Canadian women had lost all 17 previous meetings with the Black Ferns, with 10 of those defeat...

SEATTLE (AP) - Ryan Gauld scored on a penalty kick in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time, and the Vancouver Whitecaps salvaged a 1-1 Major League Soccer draw with the Seattle Sounders on Saturday night. Gauld's tying goal came following a lengthy video review where referee Victor Rivas and video official Pie...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Canada picked up an important victory in Volleyball Nations League action on Saturday night with a 25-21, 25-13, 20-25 and 25-17 over winless Thailand. Canada, which started the day ranked 11th and trying to nail down an Olympic berth, improved to 3-1 in the VNL competition. Seven women's teams have al...

EDMONTON - Evan Bouchard and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and two assists and Connor McDavid had three assists as the Edmonton Oilers staved off elimination with a dominant 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 6 of their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series on Saturday. Dylan Holloway, Zach Hyman...

DALLAS (AP) - P.J. Washington Jr. made two free throws before an intentional miss with 2.5 seconds left, lifting the Dallas Mavericks to a 117-116 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night and into the Western Conference finals for the second time in three seasons. Washington was fouled by Canadian Shai ...

A trip to the national championship game was on the line and the Melfort Mustangs did not disappoint Saturday night. The team defeated the Calgary Canucks 2-1 at the Centennial Cup in Oakville, Ont. to earn a spot in the championship game Sunday."Kudos to Calgary, they have a good team that's fast and skilled, but...

TORONTO - Federico Bernardeschi scored a hat trick and fellow Italian Lorenzo Insigne had two assists as Toronto FC humbled an injury-ravaged CF Montreal 5-1 in Major League Soccer play Saturday. The stylish Bernardeschi, sporting new bleached cornrows, scored in the 12th, 58th and 60th minutes on a night Montreal fans...

NEW YORK (AP) - Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov has won the Selke Trophy as the NHL's best defensive forward, the league announced Saturday night. Barkov is a two-time Selke winner after also finishing first in voting for the award in 2021. He was a big part of the Panthers allowing the fewest goals this sea...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Oleksandr Usyk has defeated Tyson Fury by split decision to become the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in 24 years. Usyk (22-0) added Fury's WBC title to his own WBA, IBF and IBO belts with a spectacular late rally highlighted by a ninth-round knock-down in a back-and-forth bout...

Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...

Nelly Korda shot a 7-under 65 Saturday and will take a two-stroke lead over Hannah Green into the final round of the Mizuho Americas Open in a bid to win for the sixth time in her last seven events on the LPGA Tour. After seeing Rose Zhang snap her tour record-tying five tournament winning streak in the Cognizant Found...

Toronto's Summer McIntosh emerged victorious once again, winning the women's 200-metre butterfly at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials on Saturday night. McIntosh finished with a time of two minutes 4.33 seconds to go under the Olympic qualifying time of 2:08.43. It's the fourth event in which the 17-year-old has gone...

TORONTO - Jonny DeLuca's two-run homer in the eighth inning completed the Rays comeback as Tampa Bay rallied past the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Saturday. Jose Caballero had an RBI single and Amed Rosario added a two-run single in the sixth as Tampa Bay (25-22) scored five unanswered runs for its fourth straight win. Zac...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Shane Lowry tied a major championship record by shooting a 9-under 62 in the third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday. The 37-year-old Irishman recorded nine birdies without a bogey at a very gettable Valhalla to match the lowest round ever in any of the four major tournaments. Four player...

DEBRECEN, Hungary - The Canadian women's 3x3 basketball team is off to the quarterfinals at an Olympic qualifying tournament after defeating Czechia 17-10 on Saturday. Canada went undefeated in group play after also beating Chile and Lithuania on Thursday and will play a to-be-determined opponent in the quarterfinals S...

With the Canadian women already qualified for the 2025 Rugby World Cup by virtue of their fourth-place finish at the last tournament, coach Kevin Rouet is adding to the depth in his squad. And nowhere is that more evident than at hooker. Emily Tuttosi, named to World Rugby's Women's 15s dream team of the year in 2022 a...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers will start Stuart Skinner in net tonight for a must-win Game 6 of their second-round playoff series against the Vancouver Canucks. Skinner replaces goalie Calvin Pickard, who was Edmonton's starter for Games 4 and 5. The 25-year-old Skinner was in net for the first three games of the bes...

TORONTO - Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins is preaching patience. Atkins addressed reporters at Rogers Centre this morning, hours before Toronto hosted the Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon. The 20-minute news conference in front of the home dugout was mainly focused on the Blue Jays' disappointing 19-24 record. Atkin...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Once the rain cleared out, fog moved in at the PGA Championship. Thick fog covered Valhalla on Saturday morning, causing a two-hour delay before the second round resumed. It forced tournament organizers to send players off in groups of threes on both nines for the third round. Xander Schauffele h...

BERLIN (AP) - League champion Bayer Leverkusen became the first team to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten on Saturday. Early goals from Victor Boniface and Robert Andrich gave Leverkusen a 2-1 win over Augsburg in their last game of the season, while Cologne's hopes of avoiding the drop evaporated in a 4-1 loss at ...

PRAGUE (AP) - Sweden killed off a 5-minute major before scoring three goals in a 26-second span in the middle period to pull away from Latvia in a 7-2 win that clinched a playoff-round berth at the men's world hockey championships on Saturday. The Swedes, who have not trailed in the tournament, preserved their perfect ...