Rory Linkletter will return home to Canada next month with a clear-cut goal for his Ottawa Marathon debut. “I want to try to win a marathon,” he told CBC Sports before placing sixth on Monday in Boston, where he took 59 seconds off his personal best, finishing in two hours seven minutes two seconds. “Ottawa was…
Jeff Skinner has experienced a lot over 1,078 NHL games. The energy and excitement of a playoff game, though, have eluded him so far. That will change Monday when Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers take the ice for Game 1 of their first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings. The chance to go on a…
Martin St. Louis is putting the pressure on Washington. While the Montreal Canadiens clawed their way into the playoffs, the Capitals flirted with first place in the NHL all season. So who should be feeling the heat when the two teams meet in the first round of their NHL playoff series Monday night in the…
Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin and goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens rewrote some women’s world hockey championship history ahead of the final against the United States. Poulin’s first-period goal in Saturday’s 8-1 semifinal win over Finland for her 87th career point in the tournament passed Hayley Wickenheiser for the most by a Canadian. The 34-year-old Poulin from Beauceville,…
Judgment Day has arrived for the Winnipeg Jets. Despite the NHL team’s long list of regular-season accomplishments, many hockey fans will only view this campaign as a success if the Jets go deep in the playoffs. The quest begins Saturday when Winnipeg takes on the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of its best-of-seven Western…
What did I think of Grand Slam Track’s inaugural event in Kingston, Jamaica? Three f-words pop up instantly. Fast. U.S. standouts Kenny Bednarek and Melissa Jefferson were a few tenths of a second off their Olympic-medal winning form, but they’re supposed to be. It’s April. They both looked race-ready anyway, claiming GST’s short sprint titles…
It took only six minutes into the first period of Canada’s first preliminary-round game at the women’s world championship for the first line to strike. The rookie, Jennifer Gardiner, scored her first career world-championship goal against Finland, thanks in part to a secondary assist from her linemate and captain, Marie-Philip Poulin. Veteran forward Laura Stacey…
Just days ahead of its debut in the Northern Super League, AFC Toronto has a new majority owner in Mark Mitchell. The Michigan-based Mitchell is founder of Mitchell Family Office (MFO), which has invested in more than 20 companies since its inception in 2015 and is currently involved in about a dozen. While many of…
This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Here’s a look at the top moments from the past couple days, including some impressive Canadians results. Golf: Rory gets his green jacket, Conners fades to eighth In one of…
Canada’s Rachel Homan fell 5-4 to Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni in the women’s curling final of the AMJ Players’ Championship on Sunday. After a scoreless first two ends, Tirinzoni scored in the third and fourth ends to take a 2-0 edge. Homan’s Ottawa-based rink trimmed the deficit in half in the fifth. However, the Swiss side…
