Auger-Aliassime bumps slump to beat qualifier at Barcelona Open
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Jennifer Jones will skip a team at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts for the 17th time in her career after beating Abby Ackland 10-5 to win Manitoba’s women’s curling championship Sunday. Only Colleen Jones (21)…
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The Kansas City Current have re-signed captain Desiree Scott for the 2023 season. The 35-year-old from Winnipeg, who has obtained 186 caps for Canada, returns for her third season with the Current and seventh in…
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Max Verstappen capped a sublime Formula One season with a similar performance at the Japanese Grand Prix to clinch his second consecutive championship. Verstappen’s win gave him a place in the record books as he secured…
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Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he plans to stay in Formula One beyond the length of his current contract with Mercedes. The seven-time world champion has a deal to race until the end of 2023 but…
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After the final bell and 36 rounds together, Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin shared a long embrace, apparently ending a feud that grew personal over the five years since they first met in the ring.…
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As Taylor Pendrith struggled to recover from a fractured rib for four months, he had simple goals: get back to playing golf, keep his PGA Tour card to play again next season. Pendrith has far…
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Andy Ruiz Jr. floored Luis Ortiz three times en route to a unanimous-decision triumph Sunday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The scores: 114-111, 113-112 and 114-111. With the victory, Ruiz is in line for…
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Canada had to find a different way to collect a women’s world hockey title after its Olympic triumph earlier this year and world championship gold a year ago. This edition was a work in progress…
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The Canadian women’s Para hockey team faced the United States in a historic gold-medal final on Sunday at the inaugural Para Ice Hockey Women’s World Challenge in Green Bay, Wis. While Canada suffered a 5-1 loss, the…
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Lewis Hamilton has stated that he could keep racing beyond 2023 and has added that he is “still on the mission” in Formula One. Hamilton’s contract with Mercedes expires next year and sits sixth in…
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As Nick Kyrgios rambled through a lengthy list of people he wanted to thank Sunday after ending a three-year title drought by claiming the trophy at the site of his last triumph, the Citi Open, he made…
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Haas will run its first upgrade of the season on Kevin Magnussen’s car at the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend. Haas is the only one of F1’s ten teams not to have upgraded its car…
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World bronze medalists Vanessa James and Eric Radford announced their retirement from competitive figure skating Monday. James and Radford concluded 12th in pairs at the Beijing Olympics in February and capped their lone season together…
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It was a winding route for Canada’s Mia Vallée to land on the podium. The Beaconsfield, Que., diver earned bronze in the women’s one-metre springboard final at the world aquatics championships on Wednesday in Budapest,…
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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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The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, topping the Boston Celtics 103-90 on Thursday night for their fourth title in the last eight seasons. Stephen Curry scored 34 points for the Warriors, who…
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Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant fell to Scotland’s Eve Muirhead and Bobby Lammie 8-4 on Monday in a clash of two of the top teams at the world mixed doubles curling championship. The victory…
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Naomi Osaka’s eyes welled with tears when her match ended, an all-too-familiar scene for her in recent years. These were of the happy variety. For the former world No. 1, that’s major progress. The unseeded…
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Five months on from her stoppage victory in front of a sold-out crowd in Newcastle, WBO middleweight champion Savannah “The Silent Assassin” Marshall (11-0, 9 KO’s) makes a triumphant return to the North East in…
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Owen Power’s hat trick helped Canada overcome a nervous start at the world men’s under-20 hockey championship with a 6-3 doubling of the Czechs on Sunday. Canada trailed 3-1 during the first period and was…
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Rafael Nadal stated on Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Spain after making his comeback from injury in the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi last week. The 20-time…
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The Canadian women got off to a strong start at the world short-course swimming championship, capturing three medals, including a pair of gold on Thursday in Abu Dhabi. Tessa Cieplucha claimed gold in the women’s 400-metre individual medley…
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Max Verstappen claimed an astonishing first F1 world championship title by overtaking rival Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of a hugely controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen became the first Dutch champion in history…
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Toronto FC moved into the Canadian Championship final with a 2-1 triumph over Canadian Premier League leader Pacific FC on Wednesday night. Jozy Altidore and Jacob Shaffelburg scored for Toronto, which led 2-0 after 25…
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff considers this year’s championship battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton could still be decided by an on-track collision at the final race. Formula One’s history is littered with titles…
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Andy Murray tumbled to the ground on his artificial hip, losing his balance in sweat-soaked shoes and leaving splotches on Arthur Ashe Stadium’s blue court from his soggy clothing. Murray muttered to himself, as he often…
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Novak Djokovic will start his bid to win the US Open for a men’s-record 21st major tennis championship and to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam by facing a player who comes through qualifying. Win that match…
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Canadian Savannah Sutherland won bronze in the women’s 400-metre hurdles at the U20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi on Sunday. The Borden, Sask. native set a personal best time of 57.27 seconds to collect Canada’s second podium finish…
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Kevin Kisner finally broke his playoff drought to collect the Wyndham Championship. He hopes the victory will help him achieve another milestone — representing the United States in the Ryder Cup. Kisner stuck his approach…
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Seamus Power won the Barbasol Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour triumph, defeating J.T. Poston with a tap-in par on the sixth hole of a playoff. Poston drove into the water that lines the right side…
