lundi 31 octobre 2022

A's 'prudent' to explore Las Vegas ballpark option, MLB commissioner says

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Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred thinks the Oakland Athletics made a good decision to explore a possible new ballpark in Las Vegas, expressing frustration their stadium situation remains unsolved in an industry just shy of $11 billion US in revenue this year.



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B.C. extends bar hours for 2022 World Cup

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Bars and pubs in B.C. can stay open longer during the FIFA World Cup 2022 to give fans extra time to enjoy the matches that will be held late at night or in the early morning hours.



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Maple Leafs collapse against Ducks as Zegras nets OT winner

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Trevor Zegras scored his second goal of the game at 2:15 of overtime and the Ducks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Sunday night in Anaheim to end a seven-game losing streak.



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dimanche 30 octobre 2022

Diggs leads Bills past slumping Packers for 4th straight win

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Stefon Diggs ran his mouth before running past Green Bay's secondary as he led the Buffalo Bills to a 27-17 win Sunday night over the Packers, who are off to their worst start eight games into a season under Aaron Rodgers.



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CBC Sports Late Night: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Skate Canada International

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Watch some of the worlds best figure skaters at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, Canada at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating.



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Yellowknife kickboxing coach guides Canadian youth team to best finish at world championship

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A Yellowknife boxing coach led a national team to a tournament in Italy last month. 



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Johnson leads team to season-ending LIV win capping $35M US year in prize money

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The victory capped a monster earnings year for Dustin Johnson, by far the biggest money winner in the first year of LIV. Including his $18 million US for winning the season-long individual title, Johnson finished with $35,637,767 in earnings.



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Fajardo reflects on possible end to time as a Rider after season-ending loss

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Fajardo watched from the sidelines as the backup quarterback to Mason Fine on Saturday night as the Riders lost their last regular season game 36-10.



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samedi 29 octobre 2022

Nets owner disappointed star Kyrie Irving backed antisemitic film

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Kyrie Irving said Saturday he embraced all religions, defiantly defending his right to post whatever he believes after the owner of the Brooklyn Nets said he was disappointed that Irving appeared to back an antisemitic film.



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Stampeders rout Roughriders in final game of regular season

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Quarterback Tommy Stevens rushed for 163 yards and a touchdown for the Calgary Stampeders in a 36-10 win over the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders in the final regular-season game of the 2022 CFL season Saturday.



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Alouettes hold off Argonauts to win regular-season finale

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Cole Spieker caught six passes for 105 yards and a touchdown to lead the Montreal Alouettes to a 38-33 win against the Argonauts in the regular-season finale on Saturday at BMO Field in Toronto.



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Watch World Cup short track speed skating from Montreal

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Watch as Canada's best short track athletes compete against the rest of the world at the World Cup stop in Montreal.



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Hockey Night in Canada: Live streams on desktop & app

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CBC Sports will provide a live stream of Hockey Night in Canada games on Saturday, beginning with the Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Los Angeles Kings (7 p.m. ET), followed by the Edmonton Oilers vs. Calgary Flames (10 p.m. ET).



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Former Ottawa 67's player highlights need for change in hockey culture

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Former Ottawa 67's player Justin Davis has written a book detailing his memories of playing his way through the junior hockey system in Canada in the 1990s, a book that goes into problems with hockey culture that are top of mind for Canadians today.



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Phillies erase 5-run deficit, stun Astros in 10th inning to win World Series opener

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J.T. Realmuto homered in the 10th inning and the Philadelphia Phillies, saved by right fielder Nick Castellanos' sliding catch, rallied past the Houston Astros 6-5 Friday night in the World Series opener.



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vendredi 28 octobre 2022

Canucks rout Penguins for 1st home win of season

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Bo Horvat put up a pair of power-play points and the Vancouver Canucks collected their first home win of the season, topping the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-1 on Friday night.



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Canada Soccer releases statement on workers' rights, inclusivity in World Cup host Qatar

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Canada Soccer added its voice Friday to the push for greater workers' rights and inclusivity in Qatar as the country prepares to host next month's FIFA World Cup.



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OUA Women's Rugby Final

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The best women's teams in Ontario will go head to head to see who gets top honours at this year's OUA Women's Rugby Final.



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CFL player hungry for Edmonton food scene in online video series

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Justin Renfrow, a CFL offensive lineman and former NFL player, has been highlighting Edmonton restaurants on his video series as he explores the city's food scene.



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jeudi 27 octobre 2022

McDavid's hat trick, Draisaitl's late goal propel Oilers past Chicago for 3rd straight win

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Leon Draisaitl scored the tie-breaking goal with 37.6 seconds left and had two assists to lead the Edmonton Oilers past Chicago 6-5 on Thursday night for their third straight win.



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Karate competitions now legal in Quebec after Criminal Code conundrum

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About two weeks ago, Karaté Québec announced the Quebec Cup was postponed due to "confusion in the interpretation and application of the Criminal Code'' that makes karate competitions illegal without a provincial decree.



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Phillies' Rob Thomson 1st Canadian-born World Series manager

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Rob Thomson is kind of a big deal back home, as the first Canadian-born manager to take a team to the World Series.



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NWSL awards: Thorns' Sophia Smith named MVP, Wave's Kailen Sheridan named goalkeeper of the year

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Portland Thorns FC forward Sophia Smith has been named the 2022 National Women's Soccer League Most Valuable Player.



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Canada's Keegan Messing had dreamed of being world's 1st to land quad axel

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Canada's Keegan Messing once dreamed about being history's first to land the most difficult jump in figure skating, but the 30-year-old said age caught up with him.



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OHL says it wants to offer more player training on sexual violence awareness but resources aren't there

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The OHL, among the three major junior hockey leagues in Canada with player training on sexual violence awareness, would like to offer more sessions but workshop facilitators don't have enough personnel, says a league vice-president. Some organizations delivering the OHL Onside program feel two hours of training annually aren't adequate.



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3 Cambridge Turbos off to Finland to play for Canada's junior national ringette team

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Tatum Allen of Kitchener, Katherine Shaughnessy of Cambridge and Erika Neubrand of Bornholm flew out to Helsinki, Finland on Wednesday after being recruited to the junior national ringette team.



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mercredi 26 octobre 2022

Nugent-Hopkins scores 200th career NHL goal to lift Oilers over Blues

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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored his 200th career NHL goal to break a tie in the third period, Stuart Skinner stopped 37 shots, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Blues 3-1 Wednesday night in St. Louis.



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Canadian women's soccer team to play 2 international friendlies against Brazil in November

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Canada will head to South America next month for a pair of women's friendlies against Brazil during the November FIFA international window.



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Canadian sailor Mike Birch, inaugural winner of Route du Rhum, dies at 90

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Canadian skipper Mike Birch, who won the Route du Rhum solo trans-Atlantic race by 98 seconds, has died, the event's organizers said Wednesday. He was 90.



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Arizona Coyotes ready to begin life inside cozy confines of Mullett Arena

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Auston Matthews drove by the Arizona Coyotes' new home this summer. The 5,000-seat rink tucked into a college campus is a temporary solution — for at least the next three seasons — as the franchise continues working on a proposed long-term arena.



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ESPN sells majority stake in iconic X Games brand

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ESPN sold its majority stake in the X and Winter X Games on Wednesday, marking the end of a nearly three-decade chapter during which the network helped propel snowboarding, skateboarding and other action sports out of the fringe and into the mainstream.



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Canadian gymnasts slam 'no action' by federal sports minister after toxic culture reports

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Calls to investigate the "toxic culture and rampant child abuse entrenched in Canadian gymnastics" have gone unanswered for seven months, a group of more than 500 Canadian gymnasts said in an open letter released on Wednesday.



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Portland Thorns players, surrounded by controversy not of their doing, deserve full fans' support

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Fans have an opportunity to be guardians of the game and shift the path of resistance by loving soccer even when it's hard. 



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Canadian Jeopardy 'super-champ' Mattea Roach to compete in tournament of champions

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Roach, who hails from Nova Scotia and now calls Toronto home, earned her spot in the tournament of champions this spring, when she won 23 consecutive games in the regular season.



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mardi 25 octobre 2022

Canada's Eugenie Bouchard loses 3-set heartbreaker at Abierto Tampico in Mexico

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Eugenie Bouchard of Montreal suffered a tough loss Tuesday night to Renata Zarazua of Mexico City in the WTA 125 Abierto Tampico tournament.



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Bryan Trottier reflects on his journey from small-town Saskatchewan boy to 7-time NHL champion

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The NHL Hall of Famer says he never felt like an outcast within his parents' communities as a kid. But he still heard and saw discrimination against Indigenous peoples, even at the hockey rink.



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Russian court denies WNBA star Brittney Griner's latest appeal against 9-year sentence

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A Russian court on Tuesday upheld the nine-year prison sentence handed to American basketball star Brittney Griner for drug possession, rejecting her appeal.



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Player's Own Voice podcast: Kurt Browning on figure skating, then and now

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CBC Sports' Player's Own Voice podcast chats with figure skating maestro Kurt Browning about the 1990s golden days, and the many reasons he is optimistic for the sport's future. Quintuple jumps, anyone?



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U Sports championships loom for fall sports football, rugby and soccer

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While fall-season sports are getting their respective playoff schedules underway, regular-season play in winter sports such as volleyball and basketball and men's ice hockey are just getting underway.



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Golden Knights pull away from Leafs in 3rd period as Kessel ties 'iron man' record

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Phil Kessel matched the NHL record for consecutive games played, Chandler Stephenson scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Monday night.



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lundi 24 octobre 2022

Carver from Nunavut reflects on his art being used in top-tier Canadian soccer league awards

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Ruben Komangapik, who is originally from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, but is currently living in Ottawa, created muskox and walrus figurines for the awards.



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Designing high performance running shoes great fit for U of Sask. engineering grad

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Gillian Pinder loves sports and solving problems, so being a mechanical engineer for Adidas developing new running shoes is a perfect fit for her.



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More athletes lacing up to play soccer in Sudbury, Ont., local group says

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More people in Sudbury, Ont., are signing up to play soccer and a local organization says lower registration fees paired with a new sports facility could be behind the uptick.



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Barnes-less Raptors rally in final frame to take down Heat

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Fred VanVleet scored 24 points, Pascal Siakam added 23 and the Toronto Raptors rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the Miami Heat 98-90 on Monday night and split their two-game trip to South Florida.



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dimanche 23 octobre 2022

NBA suspends Heat's Martin, Jovic 1 game for scuffle during win over Raptors

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Caleb Martin's scuffle with Christian Koloko will keep him out of the Miami-Toronto rematch on Monday night.



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Rory McIlroy reclaims world No. 1 ranking with win at CJ Cup

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Rory McIlroy reclaimed the world No. 1 ranking for the ninth time by holding off Kurt Kitayama and enduring a nervous moment at the end with a three-putt bogey that gave him a 4-under 67 and a one-shot victory at the CJ Cup.



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Canada's Sinclair, Beckie help Thorns defeat Wave, head to NWSL championship match

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Canadians Christine Sinclair and Janine Beckie came off the bench to help the Portland Thorns secure a 2-1 victory over the visiting San Diego Wave in the first of two semifinal matches Sunday in the National Women's Soccer League.



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Canadian ice dancers Marie-Jade Lauriault, Romain Le Gac capture bronze at Skate America

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Canadian ice dancers Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac won bronze on the final day of Skate America, the opening ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating event of the season.



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Canada's Reyes wins gold, El Nahas claims bronze at judo Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi

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Canadian judoka Kyle Reyes topped the podium in the men's under-100 kilogram division at the Grand Slam event in Abu Dhabi on Sunday for the first Grand Slam gold medal of his career. Fellow Canadian Shady El Nahas won bronze in the same division.



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Panthers stun Brady, Buccaneers as Tampa Bay drops below .500

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Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell below .500 with a stunning 21-3 loss to the Carolina Panthers, who won their second game of the season Sunday despite playing with a third-string quarterback and interim head coach.



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