Category Archives: Sports

GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) - Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team who were visiting the country for a tournament when the Iran war began, a government minister s...

VANCOUVER - Curtis Douglas knows what people expect of him when he steps on to the ice. The six-foot-nine, 242-pound centre says he's more than just a big body and some dangerous fists, though, as he ...

VANCOUVER - The Ottawa Senators will be without defenceman Jake Sanderson when they line up against the Canucks in Vancouver on Monday. Head coach Travis Green says the 23-year-old blue liner is out w...

NEW YORK - Winnipeg Jets forward Mark Scheifele was named NHL first star of the week Monday after recording eight points over a three-game stretch. Scheifele scored his 18th career overtime goal in a ...

Curling doesn't stop in Canada. The women's world championship opens Saturday in Calgary. On the heels of Matt Dunstone's Manitoba team winning a national men's championship in St. John's, N.L., Kerri...

LONDON (AP) - To have and to hold took on a new meaning for about two dozen couples who put their relationships to the test on a grassy hill in southern England. Wives and girlfriends clung on for dea...

MILAN - Para skier Kalle Eriksson picked up his second medal of the Milan Cortina Paralympics on Monday while Canada's wheelchair curling team and Para hockey squad posted big victories. Eriksson and ...

TORONTO - Ryan Nembhard's had many great influences in his basketball career. His father Claude is the chief executive officer of the Ontario Basketball Association, his brother Andrew is the starting...

TORONTO - Toronto Sceptres head coach Troy Ryan did not blame his team for blowing a lead in a second straight game. "I would say there's some other circumstances that impacted us playing with the lea...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Tommy Novak scored 17 seconds into overtime to complete a wild comeback in the Pittsburgh Penguins' 5-4 victory over the Boston Bruins on Sunday. Anthony Mantha scored two third-peri...