A newly renovated basketball court opened at Highland Park Junior High School on Monday, built with the help of a non-profit founded by former Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri.
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A newly renovated basketball court opened at Highland Park Junior High School on Monday, built with the help of a non-profit founded by former Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri.
AFC Toronto has signed Canadian international defender Zoe Burns and Canadian youth international forward Lauren Rowe.
Canada's under-19 girls' volleyball team collected the bronze medal with an exciting victory over the Dominican Republic on Saturday at the Pan American Cup in Kingston, Ont.
Right-handed pitcher Paxton Schultz has been placed on the Toronto Blue Jays' 15-day injured list. He's out with right middle finger inflammation a day after he gave up three runs on five hits and a walk in 1 1/3 innings in Toronto's 15-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox.
LeBron James is exercising his $52.6 million US option with the Los Angeles Lakers for 2025-26, further confirming that he will become the first player in NBA history to play a 23rd season, a person with knowledge of the decision said Sunday.
Matt (Ginjaninja) Campbell became the first player to retain the bet365 North American Darts Championship title when he defeated (Gentleman) Jim Long 6-3 in an all-Canadian final Saturday in New York.
The San Jose Sharks chose the Simon Wang from the Ontario Hockey League's Oshawa Generals with the first pick of the NHL draft's second round, making the six-foot-six, 222-pound Wang the highest-selected Chinese player in the league at No. 33 overall.
The first Canadian club to make a selection Friday night chose the centre from the Western Hockey League's Seattle Thunderbirds at No. 15.
The Islanders picked defenseman Matthew Schaefer of the OHL's Erie Otters with the first overall pick in the draft.
The Montreal Canadiens acquired offensive defenceman Noah Dobson from the New York Islanders in return, and the Islanders reportedly receive forward Emil Heineman and the 16th and 17th overall picks in Friday night's NHL draft.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have re-signed forward John Tavares to a four-year contract extension worth an average of $4.38 million per season, the club announced Friday.
The NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks of the season on Thursday for violating its personal conduct policy. The suspension takes effect on Aug. 26, which is roster cutdown day, and Tucker is eligible for reinstatement on Nov. 11.
Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon has failed in her bid to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes. Kipyegon, the Olympic 1,500-metre gold medallist from Kenya, ran in 4 minutes, 06.42 seconds at Stade Charlety in Paris on Thursday.
Canada will face No. 14 Colombia in a men's soccer friendly in in Harrison, N.J., during the October FIFA international window
Two-time overall World Cup champion Lara Gut-Behrami intends on retiring after the upcoming Olympic season, she revealed at a sponsor's event in Zurich.
The Mavericks took Duke forward Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft Wednesday night, selecting the 18-year-old from Maine who was the college player of the year in his lone season.
CBC Sports' daily newsletter looks at Kenyan track star Faith Kipyegon's attempt to run a sub-four-minute mile on Thursday in Paris.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders found success on and off the field last season. The team was able to host a playoff game and, at the club's annual general meeting Tuesday night, announced it had earned a net income of $2.1 million for the 2024-25 season.
Montreal Victoire captain Marie-Philip Poulin received the PWHL MVP Award at the Hard Rock Hotel in Ottawa on Wednesday, edging out Toronto Sceptres defender Renata Fast and former Boston Fleet forward Hilary Knight.
Famed Canadian sportscaster Don Cherry signed off from his podcast for the final time. The 91-year-old Cherry had hosted "Don Cherry's Grapevine Podcast" since August 2023, producing 313 episodes in total. His son and cohost, Tim Cherry, said on the finale that it had racked up 6.5 million downloads.
An aggressive Christopher Morales Williams led midway through the men's 400 metres at the 68th Ostrava Golden Spike on Tuesday, but the Canadian sprinter faded over the final 100 and finished third in 45.10 seconds in the Czech Republic.
The 1st overall pick is not as clear cut this season in the PWHL, compared to the last two drafts, when the Minnesota Frost selected Taylor Heise and New York Sirens picked Sarah Fillier. New York has the top pick again this year. The draft begins at 7 p.m. ET.
Montreal's Gabriel Diallo advanced to the second round of the Mallorca Championships with a 7-5, 6-3 win over local favourite Jaume Munar of Spain on Monday, which took just 56 minutes to complete.
Teenage batsman Yuvraj Samra scored 45 runs Sunday as Canada celebrated qualification for next year's ICC Men's T20 World Cup with a six-wicket win over Bermuda in the final game of the four-country Americas Qualifier.
Monica Wright Rogers is just about ready to shift the Toronto Tempo into a new gear. Wright Rogers has been focused on the business side of the new WNBA franchise in her first four months as the Tempo's inaugural general manager.
A year after the shooting of a soccer player at the Canada African Cup of Nations, the soccer tournament returned to the field on Saturday to a crowd of supporters from across the African diaspora communities in Winnipeg.
The Houston Rockets are acquiring 15-time all-star and four-time Olympic gold medallist Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns in a blockbuster deal struck Sunday, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press.
Teens Malik L'Italien and Jayden Napon have known each other for more than a decade. The 16-year-old best friends from Montreal share the same birthday and were recently drafted by the Halifax Mooseheads.
Canada paid for failing to finish out a game Saturday, conceding a 94th-minute equalizer in a 1-1 draw with Curacao in Group B play at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Houston.
Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman is ready to work on Connor McDavid's timeline for a contract extension.
Delaney Baie Pridham scored her league-leading ninth goal of the season as the Ottawa Rapid defeated the Calgary Wild 3-1 in Northern Super League action on Saturday in Ottawa.
The Montreal Victoire player's Pride apparel line with CCM Hockey is back and bolder than ever, as Ambrose looks for ways to bring together hockey and the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
A hockey stick owned by Bill Bariko, who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in overtime in 1951 to win the game for the Toronto Maple Leafs, is currently being auctioned off. It includes signatures from Barilko and several other players from that year.
O'Rourke will have the benefit of coaching a team featuring four-time Olympian Hilary Knight, who became the first player Seattle signed during the PWHL's expansion process two weeks ago.
Two days after losing in the Stanley Cup final, Connor McDavid says he's not in a rush to make a decision about his future.
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders say they're getting a 400 per cent pay raise, shedding light on just how little NFL cheerleaders, and female athletes in general, get paid.
Canada's women's team opened the second leg of the 2025 Volleyball Nations League with a 3-2 loss to South Korea on Wednesday in Istanbul.
Canada's Leylah Fernandez advanced to the quarterfinals of the Lexus Nottingham Open tennis tournament after posting a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain's Cristina Bucsa on Wednesday.
Canada's "Captain Clutch" Marie-Philip Poulin has another honour add to her already celebrated hockey career in being voted International Ice Hockey Federation female player of the year.
Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov had winning starts Tuesday at the Terra Wortmann Open grass-court tennis tournament.
The Canadian men's hockey team will open the Olympic Games against Czech Republic and the women against Finland.
Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of one count of assault against his daughter and given a suspended prison sentence. A Norwegian court acquitted Gjert of other charges, including abusing Jakob.
Police in Woodstock, N.B., are investigating a death that occurred during a harness race at Connell Park Raceway on Saturday.
Canada's Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the Lexus Nottingham Open grass-court tennis tournament with a 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 win over Suzan Lamens of the Netherlands on Monday in England.
After winning a world title and Olympic gold, hammer thrower Camryn Rogers might not have anything left to prove — but she says she still has a lot left to accomplish. The 26-year-old from Richmond, B.C., doesn’t just want to defend her titles, she wants to help grow the sport itself.
The Boston Red Sox traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants on Sunday in a blockbuster deal. ESPN reported that the package of players going back to the Red Sox includes starter Jordan Hicks and left-hander Kyle Harrison.
J.J. Spaun turned a sloppy mess of a U.S. Open at wet and nasty Oakmont into a thing of beauty at the end Sunday with two stunning shots that carried him to his first major championship.
Mercedes driver George Russell held off Red Bull's Max Verstappen for his fourth career race win, while McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris collided on Sunday at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Tanya Boychuk netted the game-winning goal in the 65th minute to lift Montreal Roses FC to a 2-1 victory over Ottawa Rapid FC on Saturday in Northern Super League action at TD Place in Ottawa.
Competitors in the 100-kilometre race swim two kilometres in English Bay, cycle 80 kilometres around UBC, and then run 18 kilometres along the beach.