Thursday, May 8, 2025

Football Canada hires LaPolice, Lessard as national flag football head coaches

A men's football coach seen on the sidelines.

Paul LaPolice has a new coaching gig. The former CFL coach was named head coach of the Canadian men's national flag football team Thursday. Football Canada also announced the appointment of Rachel Lessard as the head coach of Canada's senior women's squad.



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Regina Pats select prodigious hometown hero Maddox Schultz with top pick of WHL draft

Blonde teen boy in a Regina Pats Canadians uniform lifts the Telus Cup over his head on ice while smiling

The top player born in 2010 will be playing junior hockey in his backyard. The Regina Pats took local phenom Maddox Schultz with the first overall pick in the Western Hockey League Prospects Draft.



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Joel Quenneville hired by Ducks for 1st head coaching job since sex abuse scandal

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Joel Quenneville is returning to the NHL with the Anaheim Ducks for his first head coaching job since the second-winningest coach in league history resigned and was banned for his handling of a sexual assault scandal.



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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Red-hot Mikko Rantanen records 2nd hat trick in a row, as Stars beat Jets in Game 1

Four Dallas Stars come together to celebrate a goal, while a Winnipeg Jets player skates past, with his hand to his mouth.

Mikko Rantanen scored a natural hat trick in the second period and the Dallas Stars took a 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets in Game 1 of their second-round NHL playoff series on Wednesday.



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Gosling's 2-goal game helps Sceptres secure series opener against Frost

A group of women's hockey players celebrate a goal.

Julia Gosling scored twice in a 1:55 span in the second period and the Toronto Sceptres beat the defending champion Minnesota Frost 3-2 on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the PWHL semifinal series.



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CFL suspends Bombers QB Collaros for failing to respond to off-season drug testing

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The CFL has suspended Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros one game for failing to respond to an off-season drug-testing request.



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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Edmonton Oilers bound for Las Vegas to open second round against the Golden Knights

Two hockey players collide against the boards.

The Edmonton Oilers can be forgiven for holding their cards much closer to their chests this year — they're in Las Vegas, a place of broken dreams and sleepless nights.



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Raucous Winnipeg fans poised to be X-factor for Jets in 2nd round against Dallas Stars

A man in a helmet and suit jacket, both decorated in Winnipeg Jets logos and blue colours, stands beside a car also decorated with Jets memorabilia.

It's blue, covered in stickers and mini-sticks, topped with a replica Stanley Cup, filled with gas and ready for Round 2 of the NHL playoffs.



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American champion skier Mikaela Shiffrin joins NWSL Denver's ownership group

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin takes first place at a women’s slalom World Cup event on March 27, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Olympic gold medal-winning skier Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States has joined the ownership group of the National Women's Soccer League expansion team in Denver, set to launch next year.



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Monday, May 5, 2025

Former U.S. women's basketball head coach Fortner takes over Canada's senior squad

Nell Fortner, head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's basketball team, gives instructions to Ariadna Termis against the Louisville Cardinals at KFC YUM! Center on January 12, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Longtime NCAA, WNBA and international coach Nell Fortner has been named head coach of Canada's senior women's national team, Canada Basketball announced Monday.



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Battle-tested Jets excited to face Dallas, but need break after bruising series against Blues

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The Jets and Blues likely woke up Monday with aching muscles and bruised bodies after an opening-round NHL playoff series filled with punishing hits.



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U.S. Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in L.A. fires

United States swimmer Gary Hall Jr. poses in Lausanne, Switzerland on May 5, 2025 wearing the replica Olympic medals that International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach presented to him during a handover ceremony after the originals were destroyed with his house in the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year.

After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at International Olympic Committee headquarters Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland.



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Sunday, May 4, 2025

Former No. 1 Naomi Osaka takes 1st title in 4 years and her first on clay

Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka hits a backhand against Hailey Baptiste of the United States at the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium.

Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka claimed her first WTA title since triumphing at the 2021 Australian Open, and on her seemingly worst surface. Kaja Juvan 6-1, 7-5 Sunday in France to win L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo.



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16 parkas gifted to visiting girls' hockey team in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

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Sixteen girls on a hockey team from Ontario were each gifted handmade parkas during an exchange that brought them to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, for a week. 



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Saturday, May 3, 2025

The Whitecaps are on fire — and giving Vancouver sports fans some cheer after Canucks 'season from hell'

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In a sports market where the Vancouver Canucks have long been king, the ascendant Whitecaps are putting up a pretty good challenge for the crown.



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2025 Grand Slam Track: Miami - DAY 2

Canada's Andre De Grasse and Jerome Blake compete in the men's 100m as part of the second day of the 2025 Grand Slam Track stop in Miami.



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Mrázová nets OT winner to lift Charge past Sceptres 2-1, clinch PWHL playoff berth

Many female hockey players gather in the corner of the ice to hug and celebrate win.

Kateřina Mrázová scored 2:52 into overtime to lift the Ottawa Charge to a 2-1 regular-season finale win over the Toronto Sceptres and a playoff berth Saturday in the Professional Women's Hockey League.



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2025 World Athletics Wanda Diamond League: Shanghai/Keqiao

Watch Nova Scotia's Sarah Mitton compete in the women's shot put event as part of the latest stop on the 2025 World Athletics Wanda Diamond League tour.



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Friday, May 2, 2025

Brutal 2nd-period stretch dooms Winnipeg Jets in St. Louis, forcing Game 7 Sunday

Four St. Louis players hug in celebration along the glass, as fans cheer in the background.

Cam Fowler, Brayden Schenn and Nathan Walker scored in a 2:06 span of the second period and the St. Louis Blues beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Friday night to force a Game 7 in the first-round series.



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Jets' Scott Arniel named finalist for Jack Adams Award as coach of the year

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Scott Arniel of the Winnipeg Jets, Martin St. Louis of the Montreal Canadiens and Spencer Carbery of the Washington Capitals are the finalists for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top head coach.



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Gregg Popovich, the NBA's all-time wins leader, retires after 29 seasons as coach in San Antonio

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Gregg Popovich stepped down as coach of the San Antonio Spurs on Friday, ending a three-decade run that saw him lead the team to five NBA championships, become the league's all-time wins leader and earn induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.



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