Valour benefit from late penalty kick again

For the second time in a row, Valour FC scraped a point at home with a late penalty kick, as they drew 2-2 with Pacific FC on Wednesday.

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Calgary mayor says citizens angry over arena deal can have say in 2021

The proposal was revealed last week and Calgarians were given seven days to provide feedback, although the deal was already approved by the Stampede and CSEC boards and was essentially a take it or leave it affair. 

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Toronto school restarting football program after hazing scandal

A prestigious Toronto private school is reinstating its football team in the wake of an investigation into systemic hazing and bullying that resulted in charges levied against some of its students.

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Canada's Ellie Black repeats 5-medal Pan Ams performance

Canadian gymnast Ellie Black's breakout performance came four years ago in Toronto. Her Pan Am Games encore in Lima was on par and nearly one better.

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Astros add all-star Greinke to formidable rotation

The Houston Astros have acquired ace Zack Greinke, adding another all-star to a formidable rotation that already included Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole.

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Montreal's Auger-Aliassime wins 2nd-round match at Citi Open

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime beat American Reilly Opelka 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in a second-round match at the Citi Open on Wednesday.

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Bo Bichette's 1st career homer powers Blue Jays to sweep of lowly Royals

Freddy Galvis and rookie Bo Bichette hit solo home runs to lead the Toronto Blue Jays over the Kansas City Royals 4-1 Wednesday for a three-game sweep.

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What the latest setback means for Caster Semenya

A court has ruled that Caster Semenya can't defend her title at the upcoming track world championships. Here's what that means for her future — including next year's Olympics.

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Canada snags Olympic spot in artistic swimming thanks to Simoneau, Holzner

Jacqueline Simoneau and Claudia Holzner won the gold medal in the duet artistic swimming competition Wednesday at the Pan American Games, and earned Canada a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the process.

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Roughriders trade QB Zach Collaros to Toronto for 2020 CFL draft pick

Wednesday's trade returns Collaros, who won a Grey Cup with the Argos in 2012 as the backup quarterback, to where he started in the CFL eight years ago.

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Track legend Allyson Felix competes for medals, campaigns for motherhood

About a month after her daughter's emergency delivery, sprinter Allyson Felix went through one of her toughest workouts — a 30-minute walk. It was then when she became even more determined to line up for another sort of race: Campaigning for greater maternity protection from sponsors.

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FIFA approves immediate expansion of Women's World Cup to 32 teams

FIFA's Council has unanimously approved expanding the Women's World Cup from 24 teams to 32 for 2023 and has reopened bidding to host the tournament but made no mention of changing prize money.

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Jays starter Borucki returns to IL after just 2 starts with elbow inflammation

The Toronto Blue Jays have placed left-hander Ryan Borucki on the 10-day injured list with left elbow inflammation, retroactive to Sunday.

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Canadians Bouchard, Fernandez join Sharapova, Venus as Rogers Cup wild cards

Canadians Leylah Annie Fernandez and Eugenie Bouchard will join Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams as wild-card entries at the upcoming Rogers Cup women's event in Toronto.

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Toronto Raptors helped spike Canada's economy in May, StatsCan says

Canada's gross domestic product expanded by 0.2 per cent in May, led by predictable sectors such as construction and manufacturing. But the economy also got a bigger-than-usual boost from the Toronto Raptors' run to the NBA championship.

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2019 Qatar Goodwood Festival - Horse Racing on CBC: DAY 2

Watch day 2 of the Qatar Goodwood Festival from Sussex, GB.

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Player's Own Voice podcast: Campbell-Pascall reflects on her storied career

The Player's Own Voice podcast takes a plunge into the challenges and opportunities Canadian women's teams face, as understood by the Hall of Famer, broadcaster, and legendary leader of the national hockey team, Cassie Campbell-Pascall.

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Canadian boxer Thibeault leaves Pan Ams with bronze, but knows she's capable of more

Tammara Thibeault is leaving the Pan Am Games with a bronze medal, and is a Canadian athlete on the rise. But the 22-year-old middleweight from Montreal — who was the 2017 Canadian champion in her 75 kg weight class, and has won gold at the Continental Championships — wasn't here to prove anything to anyone but herself.

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Cleveland deals Bauer, acquires brawling Puig in 3-team deal: report

A person familiar with the negotiations says the Cleveland Indians have agreed to trade enigmatic pitcher Trevor Bauer to Cincinnati as part of a three-team deal that includes San Diego.

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Canada's McClintock-Rini wins silver and stepdaughter Rini takes bronze

The Canadian water-skier, her hair still wet after a silver-medal performance in the chilly Bujama Lagoon, raised her hands to her face and started to cry. A mix of feelings and questions came flooding to the surface as she took a moment to compose herself.

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Calgary approves deal to fund half of new arena for Flames

Calgary city council has approved a deal with the owners of the Calgary Flames to help finance what it calls a new event centre in East Victoria Park. 

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Watch the 2019 Pan Am Games: Baseball - Canada vs. Cuba

Watch live streaming coverage of the 2019 Pan American Games from Lima, Peru. Competition runs through August 11.

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Caster Semenya won't defend 800 world title after court setback

Caster Semenya won't defend her title in the 800 metres at the world championships this fall after a Swiss court overturned a temporary ruling that allowed her to run without taking testosterone-suppressing drugs to compete in international events.

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Jays trade Phelps to Cubs in exchange for another pitching prospect

The Toronto Blue Jays continue to move pieces of their roster to rebuild for the future, trading reliever David Phelps and cash considerations to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday for minor-league pitcher Thomas Hatch.

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Drake, LeBron James announce Canadian media partnership

Drake and LeBron James are joining forces to reshape the sports media landscape in Canada. The music superstar and the Los Angeles Lakers forward announced on Tuesday a partnership to bring Uninterrupted, a digital platform for athletes, to Canada.

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Jill Ellis resigns as coach of U.S. women's soccer team: reports

A person with knowledge of the situation says U.S. national team coach Jill Ellis is stepping down after leading the team to back-to-back Women's World Cup titles.

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CHL tabs NBA Canada executive as first full-time president

Longtime NBA Canada executive Dan MacKenzie has been named the first full-time president of the Canadian Hockey League.

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Minnesota Wild fire GM Paul Fenton after just 1 season: reports

The Minnesota Wild fired general manager Paul Fenton after just one season at the helm, according to multiple reports on Tuesday.

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Canada's Schnur, Pospisil, Polansky awarded wild cards for Rogers Cup

Canadians Brayden Schnur, Vasek Pospisil and Peter Polansky have earned wild-card entries into the main draw of the upcoming Rogers Cup men's tennis tournament in Montreal.

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Canada adds pair of gold medals in canoe sprint at Pan Am Games

Canada increased its Pan Am Games gold-medal haul to six with a pair of victories in canoe sprint on Tuesday.

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Chris Kunitz, Olympic gold medallist and 4-time Cup winner, retires from hockey

Fifteen-year NHL veteran Chris Kunitz retired from hockey Tuesday and was hired by the Chicago Blackhawks as an advisor.

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Loek van Mil, 1 of the tallest pro baseball players ever, dead at 34

Loek van Mil, a 7-foot-1 right-hander who was one of the tallest professional baseball players in history, has died. He was 34.

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Senators deal Mike Condon to Lightning as goalie glut begins to clear

The Ottawa Senators traded goalie Mike Condon to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday for the contract of veteran forward Ryan Callahan.

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Brazilian police dismiss rape claim against Neymar

Brazilian police say they've decided there are no grounds to bring rape charges against soccer star Neymar. And they're investigating whether his accuser filed a false report.

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2019 Qatar Goodwood Festival - Horse Racing on CBC: DAY 1

Watch day 1 of the Qatar Goodwood Festival from Sussex, GB.

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Swimming Australia's glass house comes crashing down with positive doping samples

Shayna Jack's A and B doping samples tested positive for Ligandrol, a banned substance which the 20-year-old swimmer said can be found in supplements. But it's often a drug that body builders use to increase muscle mass. Swimming Australia was on the back foot through most of the episode.

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Canadians Bouchard, Schnur fall in 1st round of Citi Open

Canada's Brayden Schnur was bounced from the Citi Open on Monday, falling in the first round against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in straight sets.

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Blue Jays top prospect Bo Bichette makes debut vs. Royals

The Toronto Blue Jays' lineup suddenly looks like it belongs in the late 1990s. There's a Biggio at designated hitter. Guerrero at third base. And after his call-up before the Blue Jays opened a three-game series at Kansas City, there is a Bichette in the infield.

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Silver for Santavy: Canadian weightlifter takes 2nd at Pan Am Games

The 22-year-old Canadian was the weightlifter to beat at the Mariscal Caceras Coliseum until he came up short with his final lift in the clean and jerk.

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All-star Stroman joining Mets with 'no hard feelings' against Blue Jays

Speaking on a conference call with members of the media Monday, roughly 24 hours after being traded from the only Major League organization he had ever known, Stroman said he was "shocked" to learn it was the Mets that had acquired him.

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Ellie Black defends own Pan Am all-around gymnastics title

Halifax gymnast Ellie Black defended her Pan Am Games women's all-around title on Monday in Lima.

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From oceanside beauty to true favela grit, Lima Pan Am Games offers mixed bag

If the bumpy ride along the pothole-laden roads to the Villa Maria Del Triunfo sports complex doesn't get your attention, the intensity of the surroundings once you step out of the vehicle will.

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Canadian surfers Young, Zelasko carving an Olympic path at Pan Am Games

One of the sports making its Olympic debut next year is creating waves so large they're being felt in Peru —and two Canadian athletes are hoping to ride them all the way to Tokyo. Surfers Cody Young and Bethany Zelasko are at the Pan Am Games, where the event they are competing in offers direct qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games.

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Calgary asks Flames for more time to consult on arena deal as poll shows majority feel week is too short

On the same day that a poll was released showing a majority of Calgarians feel the arena deal is being rushed, the city revealed it has asked the Calgary Flames' ownership group for more time to do public consultation.

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Own the Podium innovates around the Paralympics

On the Olympic front, research and development has helped athletes in summer and winter sports climb to the top of the podium. But Lindsay Musalem, a biomechanics expert at the CSIO, says there is a great opportunity when it comes to the Paralympics and improvements that can be made to the equipment and technology.

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John Herdman says lessons to be learned from Gold Cup collapse

The post-mortem is in on Canada's Gold Cup campaign and coach John Herdman has plenty to chew on. He believes the emotional fallout from the Canadian men's shock 3-2 quarter-final loss to Haiti last month was compounded by the team's success going into the tournament.

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Nadal named top seed for Rogers Cup after Djokovic, Federer withdraw

Rafael Nadal is the top seed for the upcoming men's Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Montreal, while Ash Barty is the top seed for the women's event in Toronto. Tennis Canada announced the names of the top seeds Monday based on the latest ATP and WTA tour rankings.

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Still No. 1, Canada's newest challenge is creating separation from top competition

Shawn Bullock walks into Hockey Canada's office every day with a lot on his plate. Looking at the game through different lenses in an attempt to stay ahead of the curve is one of those many tasks.

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Is this a golden age for Canadian women's swimming?

In less than four years, Canada's women's swimming team has gone from a curiosity to one of the things to be most excited about at next summer's Tokyo Olympics. CBC Sports talked to head coach John Atkinson about the team's rise.

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Vasilevskiy gets massive 8-year extension from Lightning

Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy has signed an eight-year, $76 million contract extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The team announced the deal — worth an average of $9.5 million per season — with the Vezina Trophy winner on Monday.

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