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MONTREAL - Eric Staal says he got goosebumps as he drove toward the Canadian border to start the next chapter of his NHL career. With the foundering Buffalo Sabres safely in his rear-view mirror, Staa...

MIAMI - Faced with adversity Sunday, Canada's Bianca Andreescu found a way to persevere. It wasn't easy, but the Mississauga, Ont., product gritted out a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (2), 6-4 third-round win over Ame...

SAKHIR, Bahrain - World champion Lewis Hamilton just managed to hold off Max Verstappen to win the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and clinch the 96th Formula One win of his career on Sunday. The ra...

Lucas Dias has long been ahead of the game. At eight or nine, he was playing with kids two years older at the Sporting FC Academy in Toronto. Moving to Portugal at 11, he was the youngest at Sporting ...

SILVAPLANA, Switzerland - Canada's Liam Brearley captured a silver medal at a World Cup snowboard slopestyle event on Sunday. The 18-year-old Brearley, from Gravenhurst, Ont., finished behind 2021 wor...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Logan Stankoven scored twice and the Kamloops Blazers clawed their way out of a deficit to down the Prince George Cougars 5-4 in Western Hockey League action on Saturday. The Cougars ...

CALGARY - Johnny Gaudreau responded to a barb from his coach with a pair of assists for the Calgary Flames in a 4-2 win Saturday over the visiting Winnipeg Jets. Josh Leivo, Mark Giordano, Andrew Mang...

HERRIMAN, Utah - The Toronto Arrows fell to 0-2-0 after a sloppy performance in a 39-24 loss to the Utah Warriors in Major League Rugby play on Saturday. The Arrows, still showing rust from a pre-seas...

BOSTON - Lexie Laing and Taylor Wenczkowski scored power play goals and the Boston Pride became the first two-time winner of the Isobel Cup with a 4-3 win over the defending champion Minnesota Whiteca...

TORONTO - Auston Matthews has seen shots clank off the post and others seemingly destined for the back of the net plucked out of mid-air time and again in recent weeks. So, the NHL's leading goal scor...