Nick Kyrgios withdraws from 2024 Australian Open due to injury
Canada has acquired bronze at the FIBA women’s under-19 basketball World Cup for a second time. Delaney Gibb’s three-pointer gave Canada a lead it would not relinquish in an 80-73 overtime victory over France on…
Canada collected its first two games on Wednesday at the 3×3 basketball Women’s Series stop in Bordeaux, France. The team of Katherine Plouffe, Paige Crozon, Jamie Scott and Kacie Bosch dropped Hungary 21-11 before edging France’s…
The last time Canada appeared in an Olympic men’s basketball event was in the year 2000. For perspective, the man who dragged Canada into the quarter-finals in Sydney, Steve Nash, was a 26-year-old point guard…
Game on the line, final seconds ticking away, and Slovenia’s Klemen Prepelic had nobody between him and a layup that would have sent his country into the gold-medal match at the Tokyo Olympics. Nicolas Batum had…
Three-time Paralympic champion Patrick Anderson will be making his Paralympic return to Canada’s wheelchair basketball team in Tokyo. The Canadian men’s and women’s teams headed to Tokyo were announced on Friday by the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) and…
Unselfish basketball, a balanced attack and solid defense were key factors in a commanding Canadian victory against China Wednesday night at the Olympic basketball qualifying event in Victoria. A day after grinding out an opening…
From 16 months without a game to seven contests in eight days, the Canadian women’s basketball team made its return to the court last week at the FIBA AmeriCup. Canada, which collected gold in two…
Kyrie Irving rejoined the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday after two weeks away from the team. “I’m back, I’m happy to be back,” Irving told reporters. “And we got some great pieces and we just move on and I…
Canada’s wheelchair basketball teams are relieved no more players will be lost to a realigning of eligibility standards. Under orders from the International Paralympic Committee, the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation is reassessing athletes with high…
Four-time Canadian Paralympian and two-time Paralympic gold medallist David Eng has been ruled ineligible to compete at Tokyo 2020. The conclusion came down on Thursday as a result of the athlete eligibility reassessment process conducted by the International…
The Canadian men’s basketball team may have to get past NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo to get to the Tokyo Olympics. The good news for Canada is it should have the players to do it. Canada drew seventh-ranked Greece, plus…
Jamal Murray wants to lead Canada’s men’s basketball team to the Tokyo Olympics. The Denver Nuggets star guard said he’s committed to playing for Canada this summer, a big boost for a program that has struggled…
Canada’s women’s basketball team put its depth on display Sunday in a authoritarian 110-60 victory over the Dominican Republic in the final match of the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying tournament. All 12 players hit the scoresheet,…