Williamson scores 33 to power Pelicans past Raptors

Zion Williamson had 33 points, four steals and two blocks, and Trey Murphy added six three-pointers and 26 points as the Pelicans beat the Toronto Raptors 126-108 on Wednesday night in New Orleans.

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FINA World Junior Diving Championships: DAY 4 - Women's Synchro 3M Finals

Check out the future of diving at Day 4 of the FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, Canada with the Women's Synchro 3M Finals.

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Kenya avoids track doping ban as Russia remains suspended due to war

Russia and Kenya, two of the most troubled counties on the international doping front, received encouraging news from track and field's ruling body on Wednesday, though any possible reprieve for Russia was tempered by the sport's intent to keep the country's athletes out of international meets until the war in Ukraine is over.

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2 minor hockey coaches net lifetime ban after altercation at Gatineau arena

Two minor hockey coaches in Gatineau, Que., have been suspended for life by Hockey Outaouais after an alleged violent altercation earlier this month at the Slush Puppie Centre.

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FINA World Junior Diving Championships: DAY 4 - Women's B 3M Prelims

Check out the future of diving at Day 4 of the FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, Canada with the Women's B 3M Prelims.

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Arctic Winter Games dropped COVID-19 vaccine policy but not because of Alberta, official says

The president of the Arctic Winter Games International Committee is disputing a suggestion by the Alberta premier that the games' vaccination policy was changed in exchange for government funding. 

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Wheeler's 4th career hat trick propels Jets to shutout victory over Avalanche

Connor Hellebuyck made 40 saves and Blake Wheeler recorded a hat trick and added an assist as the Winnipeg Jets defeated the reigning Stanley Cup-champion Colorado Avalanche 5-0 on Tuesday.

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FINA World Junior Diving Championships: DAY 3 - Women's Synchro Platform Finals

Check out the future of diving at Day 3 of the FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, Canada with the Women's Synchro Platform Finals.

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Alphonso Davies speaks before Canada’s final World Cup match

Alphonso Davies holds news conference ahead of Canada’s final World Cup match against Morocco.

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Marner's game winner against Red Wings extends point streak to 17 games

Auston Matthews and William Nylander scored 51 seconds apart in the first period, Mitch Marner extended his point streak to 17 games and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Red Wings 4-2 Monday night in Detroit.

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Draisaitl caps Oilers comeback against Panthers after Bouchard forces OT

Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid continue to make life difficult for opponents in crunch time. Draisaitl scored the overtime winner as the Edmonton Oilers came away with a 4-3 victory at home over the suddenly slumping Florida Panthers on Monday.

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Wide receivers stole the show in Laval's Vanier Cup victory over Saskatchewan

When the Laval Rouge et Or defeated the Saskatchewan Huskies 30-24 in the Canada Life Vanier Cup on Saturday, it lived up to the hype generated by two high-powered offences squaring off against one another.

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World Cup fans cheer on Leamington, Ont., player, despite a defeat

There's a lot of pride for Team Canada in southwestern Ontario, despite another loss at the World Cup on Sunday. Local fans have been eagerly cheering on Leamington-born player Stephen Eustáquio.

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Siakam stellar in return to lineup after 10-game absence as Raptors down Cavaliers

Pascal Siakam wasted little time in showing what the Toronto Raptors had been missing. Back after a 10-game absence, Siakam scored Toronto's first points of the game en route to 18 points and 11 rebounds to help the Raptors to a 100-88 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday.

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FINA World Junior Diving Championships: DAY 2 - Women's B Platform Finals

Check out the future of diving at Day 2 of the FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, Canada with the Womens B Platform Finals.

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Packers lose Rodgers to injury as Eagles run wild for 10th win of season

Jalen Hurts ran for 157 yards to set an Eagles record for a quarterback, and Packers QB Aaron Rodgers suffered an oblique injury in a 40-33 loss on Sunday night in Philadelphia.

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Kuzmenko's OT winner lifts Canucks over Sharks for 3rd straight victory

Andrei Kuzmenko scored at 1:12 of overtime to give the Vancouver Canucks a 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.

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Maenalanen, Dubois each score twice as Jets rout Chicago for 5th win in 7 games

Saku Maenalanen and Pierre-Luc Dubois each scored two goals and the Winnipeg Jets routed Chicago 7-2 on Sunday night, handing the team its seventh straight loss.

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Canada opens Para Hockey Cup with dominant win over Italy

Canada's national Para hockey team started strong at the 2022 Para Hockey Cup with a dominant 8-0 win over Italy on Sunday in Bridgewater, N.S.

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NFL free agent Odell Beckham Jr. removed from Miami flight by police

NFL free agent Odell Beckham Jr. was removed by police from an aircraft before takeoff at Miami International Airport after officials said he failed to respond to requests to buckle his seatbelt and appeared to be unconscious, police and airline officials said Sunday.

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Switzerland's Marco Odermatt wins 1st men's super-G of season in Lake Louise

Reigning champion Marco Odermatt posted a time of one minute, 32.53 seconds on the 2.5-kilometre course to claim the first super-G of the season.

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CBC Sports Late Night: Soccer North

Host Andi Petrillo gets you caught up on the biggest news from the Canadian men's and women's national teams ahead of the World Cup.

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Norway's Kilde wins season-opening men's World Cup downhill in Lake Louise

Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won the men's season opening World Cup downhill Saturday in Lake Louise, Alta. Kilde claimed last season's World Cup title in downhill and opened his defence of it in a time of one minute 47.98 seconds on the three-kilometre course.

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Gut-Behrami comes back to win rare giant slalom at women's World Cup

World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved on her second run Saturday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, while a trio of Canadians didn't advance to the final run in Killington, Vt.

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FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup: Women's Giant Slalom #1 - Killington

Watch as some of the world's top female giant slalom skiiers take their first run in Killington, Vermont in the USA for the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup.

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Hockey Night in Canada: Live streams on desktop & app

CBC Sports will provide a live stream of Hockey Night in Canada games on Saturday, beginning with the Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (7 p.m. ET), followed by the Vancouver Canucks vs. Vegas Golden Knights (10 p.m.).

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Australia edges Tunisia to secure 1st World Cup win, revive Group D chances

Australia beat Tunisia 1-0 on Saturday to revive its chances of advancing from the group stage at the World Cup.

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Record-setting QB hopes to end career, Huskies' championship drought with Vanier Cup victory

Mason Nyhus knows Saturday's Vanier Cup game will be his last wearing the green and white of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. To go out as a champion with a win over the Laval University Rouge et Or would be the perfect ending to the fifth-year quarterback's record-setting career.

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For many Hamiltonians, World Cup games mean cheering for your other home team — like Ghana

Approximately 20 members of Hamilton’s Ghanaian community sang, danced and cheered Ghana on as they played Portugal in their World Cup game on Thursday.

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Canada's Gilles, Poirier best in rhythm dance at Grand Prix Espoo

Canada's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier easily glided into first place in the rhythm dance on the first day of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating event in Espoo, Finland on Friday.

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Canada faces a must-not-lose match at the World Cup

CBC Sports' daily newsletter fills you in on what you need to know for Sunday's crucial contest between Canada and Croatia at the World Cup.

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Swedish contingent leads Maple Leafs past Wild in wake of Börje Salming's passing

William Nylander scored the game-winning goal in the third period, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Minnesota 4-3 on Friday and spoiled Wild goalie Marc-Andre Fleury's return to the net.

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Iran government supporters, security confront protesters at World Cup

Tensions ran high at Iran's second match at the World Cup in Qatar on Friday as fans supporting the Iranian government harassed those protesting against it and stadium security seized items expressing support for the protest movement in the Islamic Republic.

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Cheshmi's late goal sends Iran to 2-0 win over Wales at men's World Cup

Rouzbeh Cheshmi scored in the eighth minute of stoppage time to break a scoreless stalemate and Iran went on to defeat Wales 2-0 at the World Cup on Friday.

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No place like home: Canada's national team excited to take the ice at Para Hockey Cup

Canada's national Para hockey team is set to compete on home ice for the first time in three years at the Para Hockey Cup in Bridgewater, N.S., where it will look to continue its growth and get past the rival Americans.

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Laval receiver Kevin Mital wins Hec Crighton Award as U Sports' top football player

Laval Rouge et Or receiver Kevin Mital was named the winner of the Hec Crighton Trophy as the most outstanding player in U Sports football at the annual Vanier Cup all-Canadian awards banquet on Thursday.

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3 young Iranians in Sask. say they love soccer, but won't cheer for their country's team at this World Cup

Three young Saskatonians who are originally from Iran speak out about why they are not supporting their home nation's soccer team at this year's World Cup.

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Canada's Blake Enzie posts personal best 6th-place finish at skeleton World Cup season opener in Whistler

Canada's Blake Enzie opened his first full skeleton World Cup campaign with a flourish Thursday. Racing alongside athletes he's long admired, the 21-year-old Calgarian posted a personal best sixth-place finish at the season opener in Whistler, B.C.

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Bills edge Lions in final seconds for Thanksgiving win

Tyler Bass made a tiebreaking, 45-yard field goal with two seconds left, lifting the Buffalo Bills to a 28-25 win over the Detroit Lions on Thursday for their second victory in five days at Ford Field in Detroit.

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Thunder Bay coach hopes Hockey Canada scandal will lead to positive changes on the ice

A Thunder Bay hockey coach says he hopes some positive changes will come out of the Hockey Canada scandal.

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How 2 best friends donned officials' stripes and made N.L. hockey history

They learned the ropes together and now they're making history together. On Sunday, Clare Howie and Leah Rideout became the first women to officiate Junior B hockey in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Winnipeg soccer fans amazed to watch Canada at men's World Cup, many for the 1st time

Fans packed the King's Head Pub on Wednesday afternoon to witness Canada's return to the men's World Cup — 36 years after the country's lone appearance — only to watch second-ranked Belgium eke out a 1-0 win in Qatar.

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Sorokin makes career-high 49 saves as Islanders blank Oilers

Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored twice early in the second period and Ilya Sorokin made a career-high 49 saves as the New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 on Wednesday night.

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Canadian ice dancers and "quad god" heading to Grand Prix Espoo

The final Grand Prix of the season is in Finland from Nov. 25-27 and this is the last chance to qualify for the final in December. Asher Hill explains who to watch for.

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For $249, World Cup fans find a facsimile of Canada on rooftop in Doha

Canada Soccer House opened in Doha on Tuesday night, a little pocket of semi-Canadian territory staked out in advance of the first men's World Cup game for the country in 36 years. 

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Another surprise as Morocco holds Croatia to scoreless draw at World Cup

Morocco held 2018 runner-up Croatia to a 0-0 draw at the World Cup in Qatar on Wednesday. Morocco managed to stifle Croatia captain Luka Modric, who won the best player award at the last World Cup when he led his country to the final before losing to France.

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Sexual assault prevention training required for athletes, coaches and staff at 2023 world juniors

The Nova Scotia government says it will require every person representing Hockey Canada at the upcoming 2023 World Junior Championships to sign an anti-harassment policy and take “sexual assault and harassment prevention” training.

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'Very big village' will be cheering on Canada's Joel Waterman at World Cup

Joel Waterman, who grew up playing soccer in Langley and Surrey, B.C., is now lacing his cleats to play for Canada in the 2022 World Cup.

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Goalkeeper sacrifices World Cup dream, cheers on Team Canada from afar

Maxime Crépeau, a Candiac, Que., native, looks back on the injury that helped secure a MLS championship for Los Angeles FC at the expense of his spot at the World Cup.

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Canadiens suffer hard home loss as Skinner, Thompson help Sabres snap 8-game skid

Jeff Skinner had two goals and three assists as the Buffalo Sabres snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 7-2 win against the host Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.

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