Richard or 'Ree-shar'? This Calgary road may have been named after Maurice Richard

Could this street really be named after a Montreal Canadiens icon, or is that an apocryphal tale?

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Canada's LePage sets sights on Olympic gold after historic world decathlon title win

Pierce LePage has one more mountain to climb, one more goal to reach. The Whitby, Ont., native made history on Saturday, striking gold in the men's decathlon at the World Athletics Championships. He became the first Canadian to win a world title in the event.

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2023 NORCECA Women’s Continental Championship: USA vs Dominican Republic

Watch as USA and Dominican Republic go head-to-head at the 2023 NORCECA Women's Continental Championships in volleyball as they prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifications.

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How far can Canada go at the Basketball World Cup?

CBC Sports' daily newsletter reassesses Canada's chances of qualifying for the Olympics, and maybe achieving more, as it heads into the second round of the Basketball World Cup.

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Andre De Grasse places 5th in 1st Diamond League race after worlds

Just days after the World Athletics Championships, some top athletes were back on the track at a Diamond League stop in Zurich, Switzerland.

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2023 NORCECA Women’s Continental Championship: Puerto Rico vs Mexico

Watch as Puerto Rico and Mexico go head-to-head at the 2023 NORCECA Women's Continental Championships in volleyball as they prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifications.

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Canadian hockey stars Spooner, Jenner excited for PWHL season despite remaining unknowns

There’s no doubting the palpable excitement among players set to play in the Professional Women's Hockey League. But there are still questions to be answered.

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2023 Athletics Wanda Diamond League: Zurich

Fresh off the World Athletics Championships, athletes return to Diamond League at the Stadion Letzigrund in Switzerland.

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Sports integrity commissioner says safe sport gaps exposed in 1st year of office

Sarah-Eve Pelletier's first year as Canada's sport integrity commissioner showed her that her reach doesn't extend far enough.

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Coach given 'travesty of game' penalty during children's championship lacrosse game

A gold medal win for Six Nations U9 lacrosse team in the provincial championships was tarnished by a series of altercations during the game leading to two travesty of game penalties to the opposing team.

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2023 NORCECA Women’s Continental Championship: Puerto Rico vs Canada

Watch as Puerto Rico and Canada go head-to-head at the 2023 NORCECA Women's Continental Championships in volleyball as they prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifications.

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7th-seeded Tsitsipas the latest upset victim at U.S. Open, falling to Swiss qualifier

Seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas became the latest upset victim at the U.S. Open on Wednesday, falling in the second round to Swiss qualifier Dominic Stricker 7-5, 6-7 (2), 6-7 (5) 7-6 (6), 6-3.

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Few details but lots of excitement for new Ottawa pro women's hockey team

Ottawa's professional women's hockey team doesn't have a mascot, arena or even a name at this point, but excitement is already building among fans — including local star Jamie Lee Rattray.

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Ontario bans use of pro athletes to advertise, market online sports betting

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has banned the use of athletes in the advertising and marketing of internet gaming in Ontario.

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2021 U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez ousted in 1st round, joins other Canadians

Canada's Leylah Fernandez is out of the U.S. Open after a 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4 loss to 22nd seed Ekaterina Alexandrova on Tuesday.

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2023 NORCECA Women’s Continental Championship: Dominican Republic vs Cuba

Watch as Dominican Republic and Cuba go head-to-head at the 2023 NORCECA Women's Continental Championships in volleyball as they prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifications.

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Canoe Kayak Canada Sprint National Championships: DAY 1

Watch as some of the top canoe and kayak athletes head to Lake Banook in Nova Scotia for Day 1 of the Canada Sprint National Championships.

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Furor over Luis Rubiales is not about a kiss, it's about females feeling safe playing a sport they love

Will the Spanish soccer executive's fate be a warning to other men who disrespect women on the pitch and behind closed doors, or will this circus continue to be a frenzy of men in power trying to save themselves while imploring their female relatives to help them? 

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Shannon Mutch: National Power Lifting Championship

The equivalent of a six-person hot tub... that's the amount of weight a power lifter from Thunder Bay took on in one day at a recent competition. She's now ranked number one in Canada... Meet Shannon Mutch.

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Canadians out of men's singles at U.S. Open as Auger-Aliassime, Raonic fall in 1st round

Canada's Milos Raonic and Felix Auger-Aliassime were each knocked out the U.S. Open in the first round on Monday night.

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Was that Canada's best track and field world championships ever?

CBC Sports' daily newsletter assesses how Canada's impressive medal haul in Budapest stacks up with the previous gold standard.

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Mother of beleaguered Spanish soccer federation chief starts hunger strike to defend him

The mother of Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales started a hunger strike Monday in a church in southern Spain in defence of her son, who is under fire for kissing a player during the Women's World Cup awards ceremony.

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Canada's 17-game win streak in women's 3x3 basketball halted by Lithuania in quarterfinals

Canada will not win a fourth straight 3x3 basketball Women's Series title. Poor shooting and foul trouble was the inexperienced and new-look team's downfall in Monday's 18-15 quarterfinal loss to Lithuania in Debrecen, Hungary.

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Hamilton teen off to Halifax on a basketball scholarship, a 1st for local athletic program

An athletic development program for racialized high school athletes in Hamilton is marking a major milestone as one of its participants heads to university on a basketball scholarship this weekend.

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Canada's Katie Vincent races to 3 gold medals on final day of sprint canoe worlds

Winning three gold medals on the final day of the world championships has become a tradition for Canadian sprint canoeist Katie Vincent. The Mississauga, Ont., native raced to a trio of world titles at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships on Sunday in Duisburg, Germany, a repeat of last year.

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Viktor Hovland wins FedEx Cup with best 2 weeks of his career

Viktor Hovland played the best golf of his life in the final two weeks of the PGA Tour season, and it paid off Sunday with the biggest trophy of his career — a FedEx Cup title along with the $18 million US bonus.

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Henderson buoyed by fan support at Canadian Women's Open in up-and-down season

Brooke Henderson from Smiths Falls, Ont., was greeted with cheers or chants at every hole around Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club on Sunday as she put together a 4-under 68 round to improve her overall score at the Canadian women's championship to 2 under.

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Verstappen wins rainy Dutch GP to equal Vettel's F1 record with 9th straight victory

Runaway Formula One leader Max Verstappen won a rain-marred Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday to equal Sebastian Vettel's F1 record of nine straight victories, and increased his huge championship lead to 138 points as he races toward a third straight world title.

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Former CFL coach Rich Stubler, part of 5 Grey Cup-winning teams, dead at 74

Rich Stubler, who served as an assistant coach or head coach with six different CFL teams, has died. He was 74.

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Summer Series of Curling: Men's Final

Watch the men's final of the Summer Series of Curling from the Marianne St-Gelais Center in Quebec.

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Defending U.S. Open champ Alcaraz returns as a favourite of the fans, but not of the oddsmakers

Carlos Alcaraz may not be the favourite of the oddsmakers despite being the defending champion — Novak Djokovic is back, after all — but he certainly seems to be a popular choice among fans.

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Devoted groundskeeper finds his field of dreams at Ottawa Stadium

Baseball was never really a thing in Haile Tecklehaimanot's native Eritrea, but you'd never know it from his meticulous work at the home of the Ottawa Titans.

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Vincent, MacKenzie win bronze at sprint canoe worlds, clinch Olympic quota spot for Canada

Canadians Katie Vincent and Sloan MacKenzie claimed bronze in the women's C2 500-metre final on Saturday at the 2023 ICF Canoe-Kayak Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany, clinching a quota spot for Canada in the event at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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How a Jewish summer camp basketball game 40 years ago fought to undo antisemitic lessons

In 1983, Hart Snider and his fellow Jewish summer campers in Alberta played in a basketball game that still impacts his life today. The opposing team was made up of students from a nearby town who'd been taught by a notorious Holocaust denier. Snider wants to ensure people don't forget the lessons he and other players learned.

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Viktor Hovland holds 6-shot lead entering final round of Tour Championship

Viktor Hovland delivered another sterling performance, this time starting from the top that allowed him to pull away Saturday in the Tour Championship in Atlanta with a 4-under 66 that gave him a six-shot lead going into the final round of the PGA Tour season.

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Controversial low-blow call helps Usyk come back to KO Dubois, retain heavyweight titles

After a controversial win to retain his heavyweight boxing titles, Oleksandr Usyk is targeting a long-awaited and elusive unification fight with Tyson Fury.

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Vancouver's Stephen Ames trails co-leaders by 1 shot heading into Ally Challenge final round

Stephen Ames of Vancouver shoots 6-under 66 in the second round of The Ally Challenge and trails co-leaders American Paul Goydos and Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland by one stroke.

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CBC Sports: World Athletics Championships - Budapest Day 8

The CBC Sports team will keep you up to date on all the latest action from the World Athletics Championships.

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Summer Series of Curling: Men - Canada (Mooibroek) vs Nova Scotia (Purcell)

The 2nd edition of the Summer Series of Curling is back featuring Canada (Mooibroek) vs Nova Scotia (Purcell) going head-to-head on the men's side.

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2019 U.S. Open champ Bianca Andreescu will miss this year's tourney due to injury

Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from the U.S. Open and will be replaced by a qualifier/lucky loser, the tournament announced Saturday.

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American Megan Khang takes lead in 2nd round of CPKC Women's Open in Vancouver

Megan Khang had five straight birdies in a back-nine burst and shot a 6-under 66 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the CPKC Women's Open at challenging Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver.

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At least 12 people reported dead, 11 critically injured in stadium crush in Madagascar

At least 12 people died in a crush at a stadium in Antananarivo, Madagascar on Friday as sports fans gathered for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games, local media reported.

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Morikawa breaks Tiger's 36-hole mark at East Lake, shares Tour Championship lead with Hovland

One bad shot during practice led to Collin Morikawa spending two hours looking for a fix. And now he has a scoring record at East Lake in Atlanta that previously belonged to Tiger Woods.

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Bronny James has a congenital heart defect that caused his cardiac arrest, a spokesperson says

Bronny James went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the University of Southern California last month because of a congenital heart defect, according to a family spokeswoman.

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Canada's Vasek Pospisil bounced from U.S. Open qualifier

Vasek Pospisil's hopes of playing in the U.S. Open were dashed Friday in New York. The Vernon, B.C., tennis star lost 6-3, 4-6, 2-6 to Zachary Svajda of La Jolla, Calif., in a match that was delayed Thursday, then rescheduled numerous times during the day Friday.

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Summer Series of Curling: Women - Nova Scotia (Black) vs Montreal (Horton)

The 2nd edition of the Summer Series of Curling is back featuring Nova Scotia and Montreal on the women's side.

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'Sometimes I don't believe it': Vegas player Nicolas Hague brings Stanley Cup home to Kitchener

Nicolas Hague was part of Vegas Golden Knights' first-ever Stanley Cup-winning team this year and is bringing the coveted hardware to his hometown of Kitchener, Ont., a decision he says he didn’t hesitate to make.

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Zach Whitecloud brings Stanley Cup home to southwestern Manitoba

Hundreds gathered at the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation powwow arena to see the Stanley Cup and Sioux Valley Dakota Nation hero Zach Whitecloud Wednesday. Whitecloud and the cup also made stops in Brandon and Virden.

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Japan's Yuka Saso 1st-round leader at CPKC Women's Open in Vancouver

Japan's Yuka Saso is the first-round leader at the CPKC Women's Open in Vancouver. She fired a 6-under 66 in the morning wave of the first round of the Canadian women's golf championship.

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Morikawa shoots 61 to go from 9 strokes behind to 3-way tie for lead at Tour Championship

Collin Morikawa faced a tough road at the Tour Championship, starting the tournament nine shots behind but knowing he had 72 holes — and an example from Rory McIlroy last year — to make up ground in the FedEx Cup finale in Atlanta.

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