A lot has changed since the last time the puck was dropped in a National Hockey League game that mattered. The COVID-19 pandemic — which saw countries locked down and economies devastated — has already resulted in more than 17 million confirmed positive cases and about 675,000 deaths around the globe. There was upheaval elsewhere, […]
The Toronto Raptors were the hottest team in the NBA in early March, on a league-best four-game winning streak, coming off a solid west coast road swing and having just clinched a playoff spot. They were gleefully making their pre-season critics eat their words. Then the threat of COVID-19 swept through sports like a prairie […]
The CFL is no longer looking to the Business Development Bank of Canada for financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CFL had been pointed to the BDC by the federal government. But two sources with knowledge of the situation say that’s no longer a funding option after the crown corporation and league couldn’t […]
In a way, Kerry Joseph feels as if he is heading home. The former CFL quarterback, who won the Grey Cup for the Riders in 2007 after being named the league’s most outstanding player, is heading to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks where he will serve as an offensive assistant under head coach Pete Carroll. Joseph, […]
When the Edmonton Oilers step onto the ice Tuesday night for a tune-up game before the league returns to action with the start of the playoffs Saturday, Ethan Bear will be wearing a special jersey. The member of the Ochapowace First Nation will honour his Indigenous heritage by displaying his jersey name bar in Cree syllabics. […]
Fifth year university football players who thought they had lost the opportunity to play their final seasons because of the COVID-19 pandemic, got some good news on Monday morning. The controversial decision to not allow 24-year-old university football players to play their final season as 25-year-olds in 2021 has been overturned by U Sports. U […]
It is the news many 24-year-old university football players in Canada were hoping for. On Monday, USports announced it is a reversing a decision, which would have called for close to 300 players across the country to lose their fifth and final season because of their age, as they will now be allowed to play […]
There was a dramatic conclusion to the 2020 Saskatchewan men’s amateur golf championship on Friday at the Legends Golf Course in Warman. 23-year-old Ty Campbell hit a 40 foot eagle putt on the 18th hole to take a one-shot lead over Danny Klughart who was in the last pairing behind him, Klughart had a chance […]
Henry Burris is rejoining the Chicago Bears. The former CFL star was added to head coach Matt Nagy’s staff Friday as part of the Bill Walsh diversity coaching fellowship. Burris spent the 2002 season as a quarterback with the Bears. Last week, the 45-year-old native of Spiro, Okla., was named a first-ballot selection into the […]
The Toronto Blue Jays will play most of their home games at their top minor-league affiliate’s stadium in Buffalo, N.Y., this season. The Blue Jays announced the decision Friday, hours before their season opener at Tampa Bay. The team’s home opener was scheduled for Wednesday against the Washington Nationals, but that game and the game […]
