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CFL great Maurice Racine has died at the age of 80, the Ottawa Redblacks have announced. Racine won four Grey Cup championships with the Ottawa Rough Riders in the 1960s and 70s. Inducted into the Can...

The Red Deer Rebels wrapped up three games in three nights with a shocking 6-2 loss in Calgary against the Hitmen on Sunday night. The defeat was a bitter pill to swallow to say the least as the Rebel...

TORONTO - Dwane Casey admitted it wasn’t pretty, but Sunday’s 103-98 Raptors victory over the visiting Charlotte Hornets showed the growth of his group. DeMar DeRozan had a team-high 19 po...

VANCOUVER - Veteran Kei Kamara has played 11 seasons in Major League Soccer and scored over 100 goals, so he knows something special when he sees it. In his short time with the Vancouver Whitecaps, Ka...

CLEVELAND - The Cavaliers are getting smaller. Cleveland lost another big man on Sunday as the team said starting centre Tristan Thompson sustained a sprained right ankle during Saturday’s loss ...

WINNIPEG - A skating trail in Winnipeg that’s among the world’s longest has now closed for the season, but operators say it broke new records this year for length and the number of days it...

BEIJING - China’s defence budget will rise 8.1 per cent to 1.1 trillion yuan ($173 billion) this year as the country prepares to launch its second aircraft carrier, integrate stealth fighters in...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby made his first court appearance of the #MeToo era on Monday as defence lawyers tried without success to get his sexual assault case thrown out, then turned their attention...

LOS ANGELES - Against all odds, love won out at the 90th Academy Awards. Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, full-hearted monster romance “The Shape of Water” swam away with best picture at...

WARREN, Ohio - A garishly appointed Ohio mansion that heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson once called home and subsequently fell into disrepair is being converted into a house of worship. The Livin...