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GENEVA - China strengthened its relationship with the International Olympic Committee on Thursday by offering to pay for vaccines for athletes as criticism of the 2022 Winter Games host country contin...

DOHA, Qatar - Canada's Denis Shapovalov lost 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 to American Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open on Thursday. The fourth-seeded Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., saved ju...

VANCOUVER - Montreal Canadiens centre Phillip Danault breathed a giant sigh of relief Wednesday. Twenty-five games into the season, he finally scored his first goal of the year. "There was more than o...

EDMONTON - Leon Draisaitl said before Wednesday's game it's tough to be the Edmonton Oilers' best player with Connor McDavid on the roster. Despite winning the Hart Trophy last season after leading th...

Sonny Bill Williams, who wore Wolfpack colours briefly but never made it to Toronto, says he is retiring from rugby to focus on boxing. The 35-year-old former All Black, a star in both rugby union and...

Matthew Phillips tied the game in the third, then scored the winner as the Stockton Heat edged the Manitoba Moose 3-2 in overtime on Wednesday in American Hockey League action. Phillips' goal 1:09 int...

OTTAWA - Lukas Vejdemo and Alex Belzile had a goal and an assist apiece, and the Laval Rocket topped the Belleville Senators 3-1 on Wednesday in American Hockey League action. Jan Mysak also scored fo...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Eugenie Bouchard has reached the quarterfinals at the Abierto De Guadalajara tennis tournament in Mexico, while fellow Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez was ousted in the round of ...

Kansas athletic director Jeff Long resigned Wednesday, less than two days after the school mutually parted with Les Miles amid sexual misconduct allegations dating to the football coach's time at LSU ...

Toronto all-star Kyle Lowry vows to retire a Raptor. On a night the Raptors announced more bad news -- the continued absence of Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby, and two other players because ...