Marie-Yasmine Alidou and Olivia Smith scored to help the Canadian women’s soccer team wrap up a tumultuous year with a lopsided 5-1 win over 19th-ranked South Korea in an international friendly Tuesday in Murcia, Spain. With sixth-ranked Canada leading 1-0 after a first-half Korean own goal, Alidou hammered a swerving shot just underneath the crossbar…
World pairs champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada withdrew from the prestigious Grand Prix Final on Monday because Deschamps is recovering from an illness and unable to compete. Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini of Italy will replace them. The select competition begins Thursday at the Patinoire Polesud in Grenoble, France with the pairs short program,…
Canada’s Rachel Homan defeated Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg 6-5 in the women’s final of the Grand Slam of Curling’s Kioti National on Sunday. The Ottawa skip made a game-winning inturn tap for two points in the eighth end after Hasselborg’s final stone overcurled. Homan’s top-ranked team ran the table at the Grand Slam competition and has…
Canadian speed skater Isabelle Weidemann finished on the World Cup podium Saturday, taking bronze in the women’s 3,000-metre event in Beijing. Weidemann posted a time of four minutes and 2.02 seconds in her fastest race of the season. The 29-year-old from Ottawa won Olympic bronze at the same venue at the 2022 Beijing Games. Saturday’s…
Canada and Iceland played to a scoreless draw in a women’s international soccer friendly Friday. The sixth-ranked Canadian women now turn their attention to No. 19 South Korea on Tuesday, also at the Pinatar Arena. Neither side produced much offence Friday in a game short on entertainment value. The few shots that were on target…
The Hamilton Cardinals have made a “significant” addition to their lineup with the signing this week of former Major League Baseball all-star pitcher Fernando Rodney for the 2025 season. Rodney’s storied career spans 17 years in the MLB, during which he donned the jerseys of 11 teams, including the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners. The 47-year-old brings…
Host Anastasia Bucsis is joined by PWHL insider Karissa Donkin as they give their early predictions ahead of the 2nd PWHL seasons. Source link
Soon after the final refrains of Frank Sinatra’s iconic New York, New York finished playing over the loudspeakers to signify New York’s pre-season 5-2 victory over Toronto, Sarah Fillier took a seat at the podium to go over her three-goal outing. Perhaps this was a glimpse of what’s to come from the rookie No. 1…
Warning: This article references allegations of sexual assault. Three of the five former NHL players accused of sexual assault stemming back to when they were members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team were in a London, Ont., courtroom on Monday for the start of pretrial hearings. Dillon Dubé, Michael McLeod and Alex Formenton arrived ahead…
Ivanie Blondin was a key player in two of Canada’s medals at the long-track speed skating World Cup on Sunday in Nagano, Japan, earning a silver in the women’s mass start and a bronze with Yankun Zhao in the mixed gender relay. Those two pushed Canada’s total for the weekend to four medals. “I knew…
