Category Archives: Sports
Rogers looks for cost savings in sports portfolio after becoming MLSE majority owner
TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. hopes to find "revenue and cost synergies" in its expanded portfolio of sports assets after becoming the majority owner of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. T...
Jul 23, 2025
‘Biggest sport no one’s heard of:’ Walking soccer gains ground in Canada
TORONTO - Kerrin Hands calls walking soccer "the biggest sport no one's heard of." Hands, who runs the Toronto Walking Soccer Club, was initially skeptical about the appeal of a no-running version of ...
Jul 23, 2025
As losses pile up, CF Montréal pledges rebuild in open letter to fans
MONTREAL - As CF Montreal languishes at the bottom of the Major League Soccer standings, the club says it is entering a rebuild. Montreal has a 3-15-6 record in MLS play - for 15 points in 24 games - ...
Jul 23, 2025
A timeline of sexual assault allegations against former Hockey Canada junior players
A timeline of events that led to former Canada world junior hockey team players Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Cal Foote being charged with sexual assault. Jan. 5, 2018 -...
Jul 23, 2025
Hockey players' sex assault trial: What court heard about each of the 5 accused
An Ontario judge is set to deliver her ruling Thursday in the case of five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room seven years ago. Michael McLeod, Carter H...
Jul 23, 2025
Judge set to deliver ruling after turbulent sexual assault trial of five hockey players
Seven years after an encounter that put sports culture under a national microscope and sparked a new wave of conversations about consent, a judge is set to rule this week on whether the actions of fiv...
Jul 23, 2025
Max Scherzer blames himself for Blue Jays' 5-4 loss to rival Yankees
TORONTO - Max Scherzer has never been one to make excuses. Scherzer didn't take the loss on the scorecard when the Toronto Blue Jays dropped a 5-4 decision to the New York Yankees on Tuesday, but he d...
Jul 22, 2025
Rice's late homer lifts Yankees over Blue Jays 5-4 to cut Toronto's AL East lead to 3
TORONTO - Ben Rice's ninth-inning home run helped the New York Yankees salvage a 5-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday. Jazz Chisholm Jr., had a three-run homer in the first inning and Cody Be...
Jul 22, 2025
45-year-old Venus Williams becomes the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova to win a match
WASHINGTON (AP) - Venus Williams became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match in professional tennis, delivering some of her familiar big serves and groundstrokes at age 45 while b...
Jul 22, 2025
Kraken sign forward Kaapo Kakko to three-year contract
SEATTLE (AP) - Forward Kaapo Kakko signed a three-year contract with the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday with an average annual value of $4.525 million. The Kraken acquired the 24-year-old Kakko from the Ne...
Jul 22, 2025
