Playing for the first time in 38 games, Brooklyn Nets forward Ben Simmons had an impressive return to the court Monday night against the Utah Jazz, finishing with 10 points, 8 rebounds, 11 assists, a steal and no turnovers in…
Tristan Thompson has given the Cavaliers another issue to manage. Cleveland’s backup centre was suspended 25 games without pay by the NBA on Tuesday for violating the league’s anti-drug policy, a penalty that will keep him…
San Antonio Spurs center Charles Bassey will be sidelined for the remainder of the NBA season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The injury happened during a match between the Austin Spurs and the Texas Legends in Dallas while Bassey was on an NBA G League assignment. The San Antonio…
Abdoulaye Doucouré scored in his 100th Premier League appearance for Everton and substitute Lewis Dobbin netted a late second goal to earn a 2-0 victory over Chelsea on Sunday that inflicted a third away defeat in a row on the mid-table London club. Dwight…
Hockey Canada has revealed the 23-player roster for the next two Rivalry Series games between Canada and the United States in December. The team that will play in Kitchener, Ont. on Dec. 14 and Sarnia, Ont.…
Facing a must-win situation to keep its Paralympic dreams alive, the Canadian men’s basketball team defeated Argentina 70-62 on Saturday at the Parapan American Games. That triumph in Chile means they live to fight another…
Maggie Mac Neil is possibly starting to feel déjà vu at the Pan Am Games. The London, Ont., swimmer grabbed a fourth gold medal in four attempts, winning the women’s 50-metre freestyle on Tuesday in Santiago,…
On Saturday in NLCS Game 5, the Phillies got exactly what they needed from ace Zack Wheeler, along with some big hits from the power bats, to head back to Philadelphia one victory away from back-to-back trips to…
Jude Bellingham equaled the fantastic scoring numbers at Real Madrid of Cristiano Ronaldo’s start with the club on Saturday. The England international took his tally to 10 in as many games after netting twice to help Madrid rout Osasuna 4-0 and…
Sixth seed Jannik Sinner produced a master class in aggressive tennis to hand Carlos Alcaraz a 7-6 (4), 6-1 defeat in the semifinal of the China Open on Tuesday to book a title clash with the in-form Daniil Medvedev. Sinner…
Manchester United defender Lisandro Martínez is expected to be out for around two months after suffering a recurrence of the foot injury which he initially picked up in April. Martinez missed the end of last season with the…
Manchester United ended their tour of the United States with a 3-2 defeat to Borussia Dortmund at Allegiant Stadium. Erik ten Hag’s team were made to pay for a poor defensive performance as they fell to their third…
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry was trapped with 40 seconds to go in Game 4 of the series versus the Sacramento Kings. He had nowhere to move and no one to pass to. He saw the trap and…
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…
Ash Barty has lamented a “loose and erratic” effort after she fell flat in a shock first-round Tokyo Olympic loss to unheralded Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo. The world No.48 defeated world No.1 and newly crowned Wimbledon champion…
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…
Swiss tennis star Roger Federer has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics after suffering a “setback” with his knee during the grass-court season, he stated Tuesday. “I unfortunately experienced a setback with my knee, and have accepted that…
Four of the top 10 men in the Official World Golf Ranking are not going to Japan for the Olympics, only one of them by choice. The 60-man field was set Tuesday based on the…
The Canadian Football League is pushing back the start of its season to August and is also cutting down the 18-game calendar to 14 games. That means the Grey Cup is also being pushed back,…
Goalkeeper Jan Oblak has denied Atletico Madrid are facing a “crisis” after a 1-0 Champions League loss to Chelsea on Tuesday saw the La Liga leaders lose back-to-back games for the first time this campaign. The round-of-16 first leg result in…
A few days into training for the upcoming SheBelieves Cup in the warmth of Orlando, Florida, the Canadian women’s soccer team has shared the requisite happy tears, belly laughs and of course, the shake-off-the-rust practice…
Dylan Cozens applied grit and goals to Canada’s 4-1 victory over Finland at the world junior men’s hockey championship on Thursday. The Canadian co-captain scored twice, including a hard-working empty-net goal. The host country went…
Time is suddenly tight for the Canadian junior men’s hockey team. What seemed a luxurious amount of preparation and evaluation at the start of a planned 26-day selection camp is now whittled down to a…
Eden Hazard has suffered yet another injury setback at Real Madrid, with a muscular problem that could see the €100 million forward miss up to a month of action including the first El Clasico of the campaign. The Belgium international had…
Draymond Green once said there are 82-game players and 16-game players in the NBA. The Golden State Warriors star was referring to the difference of performing in the regular season versus winning in the playoffs,…
Manchester City will play the second leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie versus Real Madrid at the Etihad after UEFA cleared the match to take place in England, the governing body confirmed on Thursday.…
All athletes who had qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will keep their places for the Games next year following their postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee stated on Friday. The…
Andre De Grasse now has the opportunity to be a major part of the sprint show at the Tokyo Games. For that, he’s breathing a little easier. A day ago, Canada’s fastest man wasn’t sure…
