76 m. ago OHL playoffs: London Knights oust Owen Sound Attack in four straight

OWEN SOUND – On a team full of stars, it’s the rookie 10th-round pick who punched the London Knights’ ticket to the second round of the OHL playoffs. Noah Read’s hat trick led the way as the London Knights topped the Owen Sound Attack 8-4 in front of a sold-out crowd at the Harry Lumley […]

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5 h. ago Edmonton Oilers pick up 2 points in San Jose but lose Leon Draisaitl in the process: Cult of Hockey Player Grades

“Never in doubt”, as our dearly departed colleague would have said… The Edmonton Oilers kept their Pacific Division title hunt alive with a big two points in San Jose Thursday night. But Leading NHL MVP candidate Leon Draisaitl left the game with about six minutes left in the second and did not return. It appeared […]

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10 h. ago Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman lands on injured list following fall in his shower at home

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman’s fall landed him on the injured list. The Los Angeles Dodgers placed their star slugger on the 10-day IL on Thursday after the World Series MVP sprained his surgically repaired right ankle in a slip in the shower at home last weekend. The incident happened Sunday, an off day for […]

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10 h. ago Bump from Canadian women’s hockey team bittersweet for Hannah Miller

The forward from North Vancouver would have represented Canada for the first time in over a decade, but ran afoul of IIHF transfer rules

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12 h. ago Canadian women’s soccer team ’turning a new leaf’ under coach Casey Stoney

VANCOUVER — Returning to B.C. Place is a bit surreal for Casey Stoney. Ten years ago, she played there as part of the England squad that finished third in the 2015 World Cup. On Friday, she’ll return to the turf as head coach of the Canadian women’s soccer team. “Full circle moment for me,” Stoney […]

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13 h. ago Slow your roll, there’s no woes for the Canadian women’s soccer team

An uncharacteristically small crowd is expected for Canada's exhibition game with Argentina, but it shouldn't be taken as a sign of things to come.

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13 h. ago Rising star Kayla Cross chosen for Canadian women's tennis team

Kayla Cross has been hitting a lot of winners in the women’s tennis world lately.

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13 h. ago ‘White Lotus’ composer says he quit show after dispute over theme song

Cristobal Tapia de Veer, the composer who wrote the massive-hit theme song for HBO’s “The White Lotus,” said he won’t be returning for its recently renewed fourth season due to creative differences with show creator Mike White. “I announced to the team a few months ago that I was not coming back, that I was […]

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14 h. ago Roster 'nuances' part of 2025 Cavalry: The skinny on Calgary's CPL soccer squad

Cavalry FC went into the off-season with an if-it-ain’t-broke, don’t-fix-it attitude towards its soccer roster. After all, it seems ludicrous to tear apart a team that won the Canadian Premier League playoff title last November and then pulled off one of the major all-time upsets of the Concacaf Champions Cup. But as is the case […]

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15 h. ago Officer who shot and killed Indigenous man in N.B. did not commit crime: watchdog

New Brunswick's police watchdog says an RCMP officer did not commit a criminal offence when they shot and killed an Indigenous man in Elsipogtog First Nation last year.

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15 h. ago Judge says U.S. government may have ’acted in bad faith’ as he weighs contempt over deportation order

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration may have “acted in bad faith” by trying to rush Venezuelan migrants out of the country before a court could block their deportations to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge Jeb Boasberg in Washington pressed a Justice Department lawyer to explain the government’s actions […]

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15 h. ago Canada's Team Jacobs pushing towards playoff bye and clinching Olympic berth at worlds

A triumph Thursday morning by Canada ran its record to 8-1 at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship. That’s first place for Team Jacobs from Calgary, although that top spot is on the line later in the day against Switzerland, which held a 7-2 record rolling into massive meet-up (9 p.m. ET, TSN). Regardless, […]

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15 h. ago How 'bout them Cobra Chickens? London Majors fans embrace gag name

A London baseball team's April Fools' Day prank is such a hit out of the park, the players are going to wear it on their chests.

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17 h. ago Demand for viral ‘torpedo’ baseball bats has sent a Pennsylvania factory into overdrive

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the […]

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18 h. ago Toronto Maple Leafs playoff tickets already being resold for thousands of dollars

The Toronto Maple Leafs clinched a 2025 postseason berth with a win against the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night, and while it is still yet to be determined who the Buds will face in round one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, ticket resellers are already listing seats for thousands of dollars.The 2025 playoffs are just weeks away, and as the standings are finalized in the days to come, the Leafs will soon learn who they will face in the first round.Playoff tickets are not officially on sale as of April 3, but even ahead of ticket sales and confirmation of game details, ticket resellers are already trying to make small fortunes on the speculative demand from fans thinking that this could finally be 'the year.'Ticket reseller site StubHub currently has over 100 listings for seats at a yet-to-be-confirmed Home Game 1 at Scotiabank Arena, including a few eyebrow-raising prices.The cheapest tickets available on StubHub for this first home game against an undetermined team on an undetermin...

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18 h. ago Smallest Blue Jays crowds in years at Rogers Centre to watch AL East leading Toronto

Announced attendance for Wednesday's game against the Nationals was just 20,104, but the crowd appeared to be even more sparse.

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20 h. ago With NHL goal record in sight, players talk Ovechkin’s greatness: ‘You can’t teach it’

Every team knows what's coming when the bulldozing Washington Capitals winger with a bullet one-timer sets up in his "office."

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21 h. ago Cause of death for former Yankees star’s teenage son officially named

Costa Rican authorities have ruled that carbon monoxide poisoning was Miller Gardner's cause of death.

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21 h. ago Rival coach takes a dive after Jose Mourinho appears to grab his nose after Turkish Cup game

Jose Mourinho appeared to pinch the nose of Galatasaray coach Okan Buruk after his Fenerbahce team was knocked out of the Turkish Cup in a fiery match on Wednesday. In footage widely shared on social media, Mourinho appears to reach out from behind his opponent and make contact with his nose. Buruk then falls to […]

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23 h. ago Fisheries Department monitoring toxic algae in B.C. waters as hundreds of dolphins, sea lions die in California

Canada's DFO says its marine biotoxin team is working to assess whether algae blooms with domoic acid are affecting marine animals off our coast.

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