Brittany Hudak and Mark Arendz claimed Canada’s seventh medal of the Para Biathlon World Championships with team sprint bronze on the final day of competition in Prince George, B.C. The Canadian duo clocked a time of 22 minutes 44.4 seconds in Sunday’s final as Arendz collected his fourth medal in four events at the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club. Ukraine…
After 17 years with the Cincinnati Reds, hometown hero Joey Votto has signed a minor-league deal with the Toronto Blue Jays, joining the team for spring training in Dunedin, Fla. Source link
Lindsey Horan scored on a header in first-half stoppage time and the United States went on to beat Brazil 1-0 on Sunday in San Diego to win the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup. The United States lifted the trophy despite being stunned by a loss to Mexico in the group stage of the tournament. It was…
Hockey Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Tortorella was suspended for two games and fined $50,000 US by the NHL on Sunday for unprofessional conduct directed at the officials by refusing to leave the bench area after a game misconduct. ‘Unprofessional conduct’ directed at officials will cost Philadelphia coach $50,000 US The Associated Press · Posted:…
Track and field athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will be tested more often ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics because of substandard anti-doping programs at home, the sport’s investigators said Monday. Each country failed to heed warnings after the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Ore., to improve no-notice testing ahead of…
When athletes from Greenland walked in to the opening ceremonies of the Arctic Winter Games in Alaska on Sunday, they walked is as Team Kalaallit Nunaat. That’s because the team of young athletes from Greenland has changed its name, reclaiming it to reflect the people who live there. The new name, Kalaallit Nunaat, is the…
Injuries continue to pile up for the Toronto Raptors. Immanuel Quickley, Gary Trent Jr., and Chris Boucher will all miss Monday’s game against defending champion Denver. Boucher, a reserve forward from Montreal, has a right knee contusion. The Raptors said Monday that Boucher sustained a partial tear to the medial collateral ligament in his right…
A parliamentary committee voted Monday to look into why convicted first-degree murderer Luka Magnotta was quietly transferred from a maximum to a medium-security prison. During an emergency debate, the standing committee on public safety and national security passed an amended motion to hold one meeting on Magnotta’s transfer. The committee is now calling for four witnesses to appear before…
British Columbia’s solicitor general says there’s no evidence of widespread diversion of safe-supply opioids, after a recent drug seizure was cited by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre to criticize the provincial program. Mike Farnworth says he’s spoken to the RCMP’s commanding officer in B.C. about the seizure in Prince George and…
