WARNING: This article references sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone impacted by it. The detective in charge of the second London, Ont., police investigation that led to sexual assault charges against five former world junior hockey players testified Monday about how “overwhelming” it was for the complainant to hear in…
Canada’s Marco Arop crossed the finish line in one minute 43.48 seconds to win the men’s 800 metres in Grand Slam Track action on Saturday at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The Edmonton native, who won world championship gold in 2023 and Olympic silver in 2024 in the 800, has won all three 800-metre Grand Slam…
Cara Gardner Morey knows her life is about to get very busy. As the first general manager of Vancouver’s new Professional Women’s Hockey League team, her schedule for the upcoming weeks rapidly filled as the league announced plans for its two expansion teams to build out their rosters. On Tuesday, an exclusive signing window will…
First let’s spare a thought for the losers in Grand Slam Track’s decision to squeeze this weekend’s Philadelphia event, originally slated to take place over three days, into two afternoons. You have to feel for everybody who already bought tickets for day one, eager to watch some high-stakes races under Franklin Field’s Friday Night Lights,…
Canada Soccer reported a loss of $4 million in 2024, up from $2.5 million the year before. The deficit is just under the $4.2 million the governing body had projected in early 2024. The gap was covered by cash reserves, of which Canada Soccer now has $5.9 million remaining. “Better than projected but we all…
For the second year in a row, it was Minnesota Frost captain Kendall Coyne Schofield hoisting the Walter Cup after her team won the championship. It was the player who played such a key role in the creation of the Professional Women’s Hockey League who again led her team to the top of the mountain, through bumps…
The Minnesota Frost are PWHL champions once again. Liz Schepers scored at 12:00 in overtime of Game 4 to give Minnesota a decisive 2-1 win over the Ottawa Charge on Monday, and a second Walter Cup in as many years. The Ilana Kloss Playoff MVP award was given to Charge goaltender Gwyneth Philips. Each game in the best-of-five series…
The long wait is over. Tage Thompson scored the golden goal as the United States prevailed over Switzerland 1-0 in overtime to win its first ice hockey world championship in decades on Sunday. Thompson wristed a shot past goaltender Leonardo Genoni from the top of the right circle for the winner 2:02 into overtime of…
Hunter St. Martin scored with 2:21 left to play to lift the Medicine Hat Tigers over the the host Rimouski Océanic 5-4 on Friday in the first game of the Memorial Cup. Bryce Pickford had a pair of goals for Medicine Hat, the Western Hockey League champions. Ryder Ritchie and Gavin McKenna also found the…
Canada seeks back-to-back world titles at the World Para Hockey Championship starting Saturday in Buffalo, N.Y. The host Canadians dented the recent dominance of the United States in the sport by beating the Americans 2-1 for the gold medal last year in Calgary. It was Canada’s first gold medal on home ice and first after…
