Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters tennis tournament and increased his winning streak to 15 matches with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over French wild-card Gilles Simon on Thursday. Auger-Aliassime, seeking…
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has announced that he will retire from football when the Spanish league breaks for the World Cup this month. Pique, 35, says Saturday’s match versus Almeria in LaLiga will be his last at Camp…
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Andrey Rublev qualified for the ATP Finals after Taylor Fritz and Hubert Hurkacz, the other contenders for the two remaining spots, lost in the second round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday. The eighth-seeded Auger-Aliassime outlasted qualifier Mikael Ymer 6-7…
Kylian Mbappe scored the opener and set up the winner for Paris Saint-Germain as they defeated Juventus 2-1 at the Allianz Stadium in the Champions League on Wednesday, but finished a heartbreaking second in their group. PSG came into…
Weeks before three of the most important games of his life, John Herdman opened a press call on Wednesday sounding alarmingly subdued, almost stricken. He soon revealed that he’d just spoken with defender Scott Kennedy…
Defending champion Novak Djokovic started his race for a record-extending 39th Masters title by defeating Maxime Cressy of the United States 7-6 (1), 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters on Tuesday. In the first meeting…
Liverpool bounced back from defeat versus Leeds United with a hard-fought 2-0 victory versus Napoli, but it did not stop the Serie A side from finishing top of their Champions League group. Mohamed Salah poked home from close…
Canada’s Kerri Einarson rolled to a 12-1 rout of Kazakhstan’s Angelina Ebauyer on Tuesday at the Pan Continental Curling Championships. Einarson scored two in the first end and stole three points in the second en…
Maria Sakkari couldn’t help but smile a wide smile after taking a pair of tiebreakers to edge Jessica Pegula across more than two hours of big-hitting baseline action in front of a sparse crowd Monday as round-robin singles…
France midfielder Paul Pogba will miss the World Cup in Qatar after failing to recover from knee surgery, his agent said on Monday. Pogba underwent an operation in September, but his agent said that, after a medical review,…
Taylor Fritz of the United States stayed in contention for one of the two remaining ATP Finals spots by defeating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the Paris Masters on Monday.…
Max Verstappen became the first ever driver to win 14 races in a Formula One season with an easy triumph at the Mexican Grand Prix. Verstappen, who wrapped up his second world championship at the…
Marcus Rashford’s 100th goal for his team earned Manchester United the match as they defeated West Ham 1-0 at Old Trafford on Sunday. After struggling to create opportunities for much of the first-half, Rashford broke the deadlock with…
Canadian speed skaters Steven Dubois and Pascal Dion captured gold on home ice on Sunday at the season-opening short track World Cup stop in Montreal. Dubois acquired the men’s 500-metre event for his second medal of the…
Lewis Hamilton is planning to stay on the Formula One grid until at least 2025 after opening talks with Mercedes about a contract extension. Hamilton’s current deal is due to expire at the end of…
Rob Thomson is kind of a big deal back home, as the first Canadian-born manager to take a team to the World Series. Family and friends north of the border tell him “everybody’s behind us,…
Cristiano Ronaldo scored in his return to the pitch for Manchester United in a 3-0 victory over Sheriff Tiraspol on Thursday night at Old Trafford. A first-half goal by Diogo Dalot and one each from Marcus Rashford and Ronaldo in the second…
Anderson Silva has been cleared to compete in a boxing match Saturday versus Jake Paul after his comments from an interview nearly upended the bout. The Arizona Boxing & MMA Commission agreed to let Silva fight during…
Barcelona have stepped up their search for a Sergio Busquets replacement with the objective of signing a new midfielder in January, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Barca, as previously revealed by ESPN, sounded out deals…
Despite making their partnership official just days before the pandemic hit, Brooke McIntosh and Benjamin Mimar are still one of Canada’s newest and youngest Canadian pairs teams ready to make their senior Grand Prix debut…
Undisputed middleweight champion Claressa Shields has her plan for the immediate future set, and it still involves both boxing and mixed martial arts. Shields, who became the undisputed middleweight champion for the second time on Oct. 15…
Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to first-team training with Manchester United and is in contention to face FC Sheriff in the Europa League on Thursday. Ronaldo was dropped for the 1-1 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday after refusing to come…
Another game, another close one for the Toronto Raptors. They’re noticing a trend. Fred VanVleet scored 24 points, Pascal Siakam added 23 and the Raptors rallied in the fourth quarter to defeat the Miami Heat…
Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz rallied to defeat Jack Draper 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors on Monday. Alcaraz clinched with his third match-point chance, firing a forehand winner when following in a strong serve…
Unai Emery has become the new Aston Villa manager to replace Steven Gerrard, it was revealed on Monday. Sources told ESPN that talks between Villa and the former Villarreal manager Emery started on Sunday, sources told ESPN, with the…
CF Montreal’s exit from the Major League Soccer playoffs on Sunday was more than a local concern. At least four probable members of the Canadian men’s national team, including certain starter Alistair Johnston and rising…
Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton five laps from the end of the United States Grand Prix to secure a record equaling 13th victory of the season and ensure Red Bull claimed the 2022 constructors’ championship.…
Raphael Varane’s injury is not as bad as first feared, with sources telling ESPN the defender is set to miss three to four weeks but he won’t play for Manchester United again before the World Cup. Varane,…
Ben Flanagan ran to his third Canadian road race record of the year on Sunday, completing the Valencia Half Marathon in 61 minutes for 18th place, a few strides ahead of Canada’s fastest-ever marathon runner.…
Quartararo comes into this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix trailing Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia by 14 points and must not cede any more than 10 if he is to keep his fading title hopes active. The Yamaha rider has…
