Tag Archives: Sports

It only took a single text message for the sewing team at Brian's Custom Sports to join the fight against the spread of COVID-19. The goalie equipment manufacturer had been approached by Windsor-Essex...

DENVER - A second player on the Colorado Avalanche has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced Saturday afternoon. The player is in self-isolation and all other Avalanche players and sta...

Longtime Ottawa Senators broadcaster Gord Wilson has tested positive for COVID-19. Wilson's status was confirmed on Friday by his wife, Patricia Boal, on an Ottawa newscast. Boal, who works for C...

Anyone who scoffs at all these drastic measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, who wonders if it's really necessary to shut down sports around the world, needs a primer on the 1919 Stanley Cup...

For those who have already booked their berths in the Tokyo Games, the International Olympic Committee's confirmation that athletes who have qualified remain qualified provides some cla...

Connor McDavid grew up idolizing Sidney Crosby. On at least one issue, he's at odds with his childhood hero. A day after Crosby and Alex Ovechkin said they would be in favour of the NHL goin...

TORONTO - CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the league's draft remains on schedule - at least for now. Ambrosie addressed the status of the April 30 draft during a question-and-...

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - The house of Hall of Fame golfer Davis Love III was destroyed by fire early Friday morning in a blaze that could not be controlled, even with 16 firefighters arriving within m...

MONACO - Two Olympic gold medallists were among four Russian track and field athletes charged with doping offences. Andrei Silnov, the 2008 Olympic high jump champion, and Natalya Antyukh, the 2012 ch...

Fear of the unknown was holding Markus Thormeyer back in the pool. When the Canadian swimmer told teammates he was gay, the walls he'd built up came down and Thormeyer felt liberated to swim fast...