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Canada’s Corey Conners wins Texas Open for 2nd time in 5 years

Canada’s Corey Conners wins Texas Open for 2nd time in 5 years

When Corey Conners collected the Valero Texas Open in 2019 he got a pair of cowboy boots instead of a trophy. Sometimes, especially during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, he would wear them…

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Canada falls in OT to U.S. in Para hockey series opener

Canada falls in OT to U.S. in Para hockey series opener

The Canadian men’s Para hockey team opened its three-game series versus rival United States with a narrow loss on Wednesday night, falling 1-0 in overtime on home ice at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, Ont. Star…

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Fournier Beaudry, Soerensen claim ice dance silver at Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

Fournier Beaudry, Soerensen claim ice dance silver at Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

Canadian national champions Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen collected silver in the ice dance event at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo.  The Montreal duo were second after Friday’s rhythm dance and…

Siakam scores career-high 52 as Raptors snap 6-game losing skid with win over Knicks

Pascal Siakam scored a career-high 52 points and the Toronto Raptors snapped the New York Knicks’ NBA-leading eight-game winning streak 113-106 Wednesday night. “It’s cool,” Siakam said of posting his first 50-point game at Madison…

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Canada swept by Turkish women at volleyball worlds for 1st loss in 5 matches

Canada swept by Turkish women at volleyball worlds for 1st loss in 5 matches

Inconsistent serves, poor service reception and too much Ebrar Karakurt. That was the Canadian women’s volleyball team’s downfall in its first loss in five matches, a three-set sweep at the hands of Turkey in Phase…

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‘We’ll grow through this’: Canada shut out by Uruguay in World Cup friendly

‘We’ll grow through this’: Canada shut out by Uruguay in World Cup friendly

Despite Canada’s ability to control much of the match versus a formidable opponent, it was the missed opportunities that stung most. Canada suffered a 2-0 loss at the hands of No. 13 Uruguay in its…

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Coach Priestman challenges Canadian women’s soccer team to be better as it moves to CONCACAF semifinals

Coach Priestman challenges Canadian women’s soccer team to be better as it moves to CONCACAF semifinals

Since winning gold at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics, the Canadian women’s crew has been walking around with a rather large bull’s-eye on its back.  Every adversary now brings their “A game” whenever they face Canada,…

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Kailen Sheridan eager to fill Canada’s ‘keeper shoes left behind by retired Labbé

Kailen Sheridan eager to fill Canada’s ‘keeper shoes left behind by retired Labbé

Canadian women’s team goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan can’t stop smiling these days.  Last week, the 26-year-old from Pickering, Ont., got engaged to her long-time girlfriend, with the couple expecting to get married late next year.  Things…

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Canada’s Auger-Aliassime rallies for 5-set win at French Open

Canada’s Auger-Aliassime rallies for 5-set win at French Open

Felix Auger-Aliassime fought back from two sets down to defeat Peru’s Juan Pablo Varillas on Sunday and move into the second round at Roland Garros. The unseeded Varillas took the first two sets, 6-2, before…

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Canada set for playoff showdown with Norway at mixed doubles worlds

Canada set for playoff showdown with Norway at mixed doubles worlds

Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant won their final preliminary matches Thursday at the world mixed doubles curling championship to finish second in their group and set up a playoff showdown with Norway. Peterman and…

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Lisa Weagle shifts focus to mixed doubles, following Canadian teammate Laura Walker

Lisa Weagle shifts focus to mixed doubles, following Canadian teammate Laura Walker

Three-time national champion Lisa Weagle plans to step back from women’s team curling next season to focus on the mixed doubles discipline. Weagle, who represented Canada at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and at last month’s…

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Canada’s Jennifer Jones loses to China, will need win vs. Denmark for chance at Olympic curling semis

Canada’s Jennifer Jones loses to China, will need win vs. Denmark for chance at Olympic curling semis

Canada’s Jennifer Jones saw a three-match winning streak halted by an extra-end, 11-9 defeat to China’s Wang Rui in women’s curling on Wednesday. The Canadians will take a 4-4 record into their round-robin finale versus Denmark’s…

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Adam Tambellini leads Canada past China, into Olympic men’s hockey quarter-finals

Adam Tambellini leads Canada past China, into Olympic men’s hockey quarter-finals

Adam Tambellini had two goals, including one on a penalty shot, and three assists as Canada survived an early scare Tuesday to defeat China 7-2 in the qualification round of the men’s hockey tournament at…

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Canada’s Jennifer Jones gets pivotal win over Great Britain in Olympic women’s curling

Canada’s Jennifer Jones gets pivotal win over Great Britain in Olympic women’s curling

Canada’s Jennifer Jones and her team now sport a 3-3 record in Beijing after edging Great Britain’s Eve Muirhead 7-3 in Olympic women’s curling action on Monday. With the hammer in the fifth end, Canada took the lead…

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Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov victories help Canada claim 1st ATP Cup title

Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov victories help Canada claim 1st ATP Cup title

Felix Auger-Aliassime clinched the ATP Cup title for Canada on Sunday with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 singles triumph over Roberto Bautista Agut to give his country an insurmountable 2-0 lead versus Spain. Denis Shapovalov opened…

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Justin Kripps leads Canada’s 4-man bobsleigh team to World Cup silver in Altenberg

Justin Kripps leads Canada’s 4-man bobsleigh team to World Cup silver in Altenberg

Justin Kripps piloted his crew of brakemen Ryan Sommer, Cam Stones, and Ben Coakwel to a silver medal at a World Cup event on Sunday in Altenberg, Germany. The Canadian four-man bobsleigh team concluded with a time of…

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Ben Josephson tasked with guiding Canadian men’s indoor volleyball team to 2024 Olympics

Ben Josephson tasked with guiding Canadian men’s indoor volleyball team to 2024 Olympics

Volleyball Canada has named Ben Josephson as coach of Canada’s senior indoor men’s team. Josephson will begin his new role April 1. He has been the head coach of the Trinity Western University men’s program since…

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Ymer brothers help Sweden stun Canada in Davis Cup finals

Ymer brothers help Sweden stun Canada in Davis Cup finals

Before any matches were played, Elias Ymer didn’t hesitate to say Sweden could succeed at the Davis Cup Finals despite being one of the lowest-ranked nations in the competition. He backed up his words with a great…

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Sarah Fillier’s game-winner lifts Canada to 2nd straight win over U.S. in pre-Olympic exhibition

Sarah Fillier’s game-winner lifts Canada to 2nd straight win over U.S. in pre-Olympic exhibition

Sarah Fillier scored twice, including the go-ahead goal with 3:58 left, and Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in Game 2 of the rivals’ nine-game pre-Olympic series on Monday night in Hartford, Conn. Victoria Bach…

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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez outduels Pavlyuchenkova to advance at Indian Wells

Canada’s Leylah Fernandez outduels Pavlyuchenkova to advance at Indian Wells

Canadian Leylah Fernandez rallied from an error-filled first set to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in a marathon match in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open Sunday night. Fernandez advanced to the round of 16…

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Canada’s Pavan, Humana-Paredes win pair to open beach volleyball finals

Canada’s Pavan, Humana-Paredes win pair to open beach volleyball finals

Canadian duo Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes opened with two consecutive straight-sets triumphs at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in Sardinia, Italy on Wednesday. In their first competition since a disappointing Olympics, the fifth-ranked Canadians and reigning world champions…

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Canadian women’s Olympic hockey build includes 2 games vs. B.C. men’s junior teams

Canadian women’s Olympic hockey build includes 2 games vs. B.C. men’s junior teams

Canada’s women’s hockey team will play a pair of games versus male Junior A teams in B.C. next month. The national women’s team, currently centralized in Calgary to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Olympics, will…

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Canada’s Marino takes upset victory in 1st round of National Bank Open

Canada’s Marino takes upset victory in 1st round of National Bank Open

Canada’s Rebecca Marino pulled off her biggest victory since returning to tennis, upsetting World No. 26 Madison Keys of the United States in consecutive sets on Monday at the National Bank Open. The 30-year-old Marino…

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Lingering knee issues cause Roger Federer to withdraw from Toronto, Cincinnati tournaments

Lingering knee issues cause Roger Federer to withdraw from Toronto, Cincinnati tournaments

Roger Federer pulled out of the upcoming hard-court tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati on Thursday, citing lingering issues with his surgically repaired knee and shedding doubt on his status for the US Open. The withdrawals by…

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Andre De Grasse sets Canadian record, will run for Olympic gold in men’s 200m final

Andre De Grasse sets Canadian record, will run for Olympic gold in men’s 200m final

Andre De Grasse just keeps getting faster at the Olympics. And now he’s eyeing his second medal in Tokyo and the fifth of his Olympic career. The 26-year-old from Markham, Ont., burned up the Olympic…

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Oleksiak earns historic medal No. 7 as Canadian women win bronze in 4x100m medley relay

Oleksiak earns historic medal No. 7 as Canadian women win bronze in 4x100m medley relay

Penny Oleksiak is now Canada’s most decorated Olympian, captivating her seventh medal — a bronze — in the women’s 4×100-metre medley relay Sunday morning in Tokyo.  But in the celebration and excitement of the historic moment,…

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Canada’s Penny Oleksiak brushes off latest 4th-place finish, looks to set medal record on Sunday

Canada’s Penny Oleksiak brushes off latest 4th-place finish, looks to set medal record on Sunday

Five years ago at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Penny Oleksiak won gold in the women’s 100-metre freestyle with a time of 52.70 seconds.  In Tokyo on Friday morning, she set a Canadian record…

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Canada’s Maude Charron wins Olympic weightlifting gold

Canada’s Maude Charron wins Olympic weightlifting gold

Maude Charron has won a gold medal in the women’s 64-kilogram weightlifting. She lifted 105 kg in the snatch, and 131 in the clean and jerk to collect Canada’s second gold medal of the Tokyo Games. Charron…

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Kylie Masse loses Olympic backstroke record minutes after winning heat

Kylie Masse loses Olympic backstroke record minutes after winning heat

Kylie Masse capped a unforgettable Sunday for Canada’s swim team. The two-time world champion set an Olympic record in the women’s 100-metre backstroke, winning in 58.17 seconds, only to see American rival Regan Smith (57.96)…

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Canada makes long-awaited return to Olympic softball diamond with shutout win

Canada makes long-awaited return to Olympic softball diamond with shutout win

After waiting 689 days since its last international softball game and enduring a pandemic, the Canadian women’s softball team didn’t miss a beat, defeating Mexico 4-0 on Wednesday in the opening game of the 2020…

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