SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Sam Ryder wasn't sure his neck would feel good enough for him to play Thursday in the Valero Texas Open. He found a swing and hardly missed a putt on his way to a 9-under 63 and a one-shot lead over Keith Mitchell in the final tournament before the Masters. Mitchell played bogey-free in the morning f...

TORONTO - Scottie Barnes is back in the lineup for the Toronto Raptors tonight. Barnes had been listed as questionable on Toronto's personnel report ahead of the Raptors game with the Portland Trail Blazers. The 23-year-old Barnes has been struggling with a finger joint contusion. Toronto head coach Darko Rajakovic ann...

VANCOUVER - Returning to B.C. Place is a bit surreal for Casey Stoney. Ten years ago, she played there as part of the England squad that finished third in the 2015 World Cup. On Friday, she'll return to the turf as head coach of the Canadian women's soccer team. "Full circle moment for me," Stoney said Thursd...

Lacombe's Daxon Rudolph is in the running for the Western Hockey League (WHL) rookie of the year award.Following a stellar first year in the WHL with the Prince Albert Raiders, the 17-year-old defenceman was named as one of six nominees for the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy.He scored seven goals and added 34 assists for ...

Hannah Miller chose to reflect more on her selection to Canada's roster for the women's world hockey championship than the International Ice Hockey Federation rule that knocked her off it. The 29-year-old forward from North Vancouver, B.C., was among 25 players named to the Canadian team March 21. Canada opens defence ...

MOOSE JAW - Three fights in nine seconds? Now that would be a story. Elbows up? Only if you count the arm motion from heavy sweeping. The latest on-ice battle between Canada and the United States is set for Friday night in the round-robin finale at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship. But unlike the fiery showdown...

Alex Russell will captain Canada in the final round of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in Krakow, Poland, where the Canadian men will look to take a step closer to regaining their spot in the elite HSBC SVNS circuit. After the April 11-12 event at Henryk Reyman Municipal Stadium, the top four Challenger S...

Former Toronto Argonauts president Brian Cooper has no doubt the Canadian Football League got it right hiring longtime television executive Stewart Johnston as its new commissioner. The CFL announced Johnston's appointment Wednesday. The president of TSN assumes his new role April 24. "Stewart is a great leader, a...

The Canadian Premier League kicks off its seventh season Saturday with Atletico Ottawa's Sergei Kozlovskiy and J.D. Ulanowski serving as prime examples of the platform the domestic soccer league offers. Both have a bright future. But the two are already ahead of the game. Kozlovskiy is a 16-year-old defender who joined...

TORONTO - Toronto FC has acquired Swiss/Spanish midfielder Maxime Dominguez on loan from Brazil's Vasco da Gama, the Major League Soccer team announced Thursday. The loan runs through Dec. 31, with a purchase option at the end. "Maxime will provide us with a boost in our midfield given his technical ability, work ...

MONTREAL - Marie-Philip Poulin always feels honoured to represent her country on the international stage. Canada's captain just wishes she didn't have to leave her Professional Women's Hockey League team for weeks at a time to wear the red Maple Leaf. As the season heats up with playoffs looming, the PWHL is taking an ...

MOOSE JAW - Canada's Brad Jacobs defeated China's Xiaoming Xu 8-2 in the early draw at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship. Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert controlled the game after jumping out to an early 4-1 lead. Canada is 8-1 in round-robin play at the Temple Gardens Centre while China is no...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks have signed head coach Bob Dyce to a contract extension through the 2026 CFL season, the team announced Thursday. Dyce, 59, of Winnipeg, begins his third full season on Ottawa's sideline. The Redblacks posted a 9-8-1 record last season to make the CFL playoffs for the first time in six yea...

Paul Maurice has led hundreds of meetings across a long coaching career. The video rolls. There are points of emphasis. Players get their marching orders. Alex Ovechkin became a focus in opposing NHL locker rooms shortly after making his debut in 2005. Not much has changed. Every team knows what's coming when the bulld...

Canada climbed one spot to an all-time best No. 30 in the latest FFA rankings released Thursday. The Canadian men had reached their previous high in November after climbing four places to No. 31. They were unchanged in the end-of-year December list. Canada had previously been as high as No. 33, achieved in February 202...

VANCOUVER - Joey Daccord stopped all 25 shots he faced as the Seattle Kraken blanked Vancouver 5-0 on Wednesday to deal the Canucks' playoff hopes a blow. Mikey Eyssimont, Chandler Stephenson, Shane Wright and Andre Burakovsky scored for Seattle (32-38-6), and Adam Larsson added an empty-net goal. Burakovsky also picke...

TORONTO - John Tavares put the puck in the net off a slick William Nylander feed. Mitch Marner then finished a nice setup from Auston Matthews before finding Matthew Knies with a breathtaking stretch pass that led to a breakaway goal. The Maple Leafs' stars rose to the occasion offensively in Wednesday's crucial tilt a...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps conceded a late goal and had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Pumas UNAM on Wednesday in the opening game of their CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal. Striker Brian White gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead in the 71st minute but Pumas midfielder Adalberto Carrasquilla tied the match in the 87th...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Alex Ovechkin took another step closer to breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record by scoring his 892nd career goal in the Washington Capitals' 5-1 loss at the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night. Ovechkin moved two away from tying Gretzky and three from passing him. The 39-year-old Russian was disap...

TORONTO - Mitch Marner scored the goal-ahead goal in the third period and Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Florida Panthers 3-2 in a key matchup atop the Atlantic Division standings Wednesday. John Tavares and Matthew Knies had the other goals for Toronto (46-25-4), which clinched a p...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Alex Ovechkin moved three goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record after scoring the 892nd of his career in the Washington Capitals' game at the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night. Ovechkin beat Frederik Andersen on a 5-on-3 power-play with 34.5 seconds left in the second period. He ...

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Defending champion Nelly Korda became the latest example of anything goes in the T-Mobile Match Play when she settled for a halve Wednesday against Brittany Altomare, No. 828 in the world and still building her game after an 18-month break from having a baby. Korda was 2 up with four holes ...

TORONTO - Easton Lucas was beaming Wednesday after limiting the Washington Nationals to one hit over five scoreless innings in his first major league start, a 4-2 interleague win for the Toronto Blue Jays. There was more work ahead, however, for the 28-year-old from California. "I got back (to the locker-room) and...

TORONTO - Easton Lucas held the Nationals to one hit over five scoreless innings in his first major league start as the Toronto Blue defeated Washington 4-2 in interleague play Wednesday. It was hardly baseball weather with snow falling outside Rogers Centre for the 3:07 p.m. local time start, dubbed "Work From Do...

A new era has begun in the town of Olds.On Wednesday morning, the historic Olds Grizzlys franchise of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) announced a new ownership group has taken the helm, with a new coaching staff to lead the way moving forward.The good news for the community is the team will be staying in Olds. ...

MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Canada's Brad Jacobs defeated Norway's Magnus Ramsfjell 8-3 in the early draw at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship. Jacobs, vice Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert scored three points in the fourth end. The teams shook hands after Norway gave up a steal of two in the eighth...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Josh Samanski to a two-year entry level contract, the NHL club announced Wednesday. The contract will start next season. The six-foot-five, 190-pound Samanski has spent the past four seasons primarily with the Straubing Tigers of the top German league. He has 40 goals ...

QUÉBEC - The Canadian Premier League will host a regular-season game in Quebec City on May 31 featuring York United FC and Halifax Wanderers FC. The 2025 edition of the "On Tour" series marks the league's second neutral-site contest. Vancouver FC and Cavalry FC played to a scoreless draw in Kelowna, B....