Category Archives: Sports
Vancouver Rise add veteran NWSL midfielder Nikki Stanton to inaugural roster
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Rise continue to build out their roster ahead of the inaugural National Super League season, signing veteran midfielder Nikki Stanton on Thursday. Stanton joins the Rise foll...
Jan 9, 2025
Striking ski patrollers at the biggest US resort return to work claiming victory
Two hundred Utah ski patrollers returned to work Thursday after voting to accept a new labor contract and end a nearly two-week strike that closed many trails and caused long lift lines at the ones th...
Jan 9, 2025
Vonn 10th fastest in practice for her first World Cup downhill in 6 years
ST. ANTON, Austria (AP) - Ski great Lindsey Vonn was 10th fastest in a training run on Thursday for her first World Cup downhill in six years. Three weeks after her World Cup comeback with a titanium ...
Jan 9, 2025
Canadian women drawn with Britain, Fiji and U.S. for HSBC SVNS stop in Perth
PERTH - The Canadian women have been drawn in Pool B alongside Britain, Fiji and the U.S. at the HSBC SVNS Perth in Australia later this month. The Perth event, the third round of the seven-stop rugby...
Jan 9, 2025
Northleaf Capital Partners joins with Altor Equity Partners in CCM Hockey deal
TORONTO - Canadian investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners has partnered with Swedish private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to invest in CCM Hockey. Financial terms of the agreement were not di...
Jan 9, 2025
WNBA's Toronto Tempo joins forces with Sephora Canada in first sponsor partnership
TORONTO - Toronto Tempo president Teresa Resch believes the WNBA expansion team has found a kindred spirit in Sephora Canada as the basketball franchise's "founding partner and official beauty partner...
Jan 9, 2025
West Ham hires former Chelsea coach Graham Potter
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - West Ham hired Graham Potter as manager on Thursday, a day after Julen Lopetegui was fired. Potter has been out of management since he was fired by Chelsea in 2023 after jus...
Jan 9, 2025
'It's just special': Vancouver PWHL game unique experience for players, coaches
VANCOUVER - Memories of the 2010 Olympics came rushing back for Marie-Philip Poulin as she stepped onto the ice at Rogers Arena on Wednesday. It was nearly 15 years since the hockey legend helped Cana...
Jan 9, 2025
Capitals beat Canucks 2-1 in overtime
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pierre-Luc Dubois scored his second goal of the game late in overtime, Logan Thompson made 30 saves and the Washington Capitals beat the Vancouver Canucks 2-1 on Wednesday night desp...
Jan 9, 2025
Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime into semifinals of Adelaide International
ADELAIDE - Felix Auger-Aliassime reached the semifinals of the Adelaide International with a straight sets win over Marcos Giron of the United States on Wednesday. The fifth-seeded Auger-Aliassime of ...
Jan 9, 2025
