CALGARY - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers charged out of the gate to start their 2026 CFL season by beating a team they couldn't last year. The Bombers defeated the host Calgary Stampeders 30-28 in a tug of war that ended with Sergio Castillo's walkoff field...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Go crazy, New York. Or, perhaps more accurately, crazier. The red-hot Knicks are going home, two wins away from an NBA championship that the capital of the world has been waiting to see for generations. Jalen Brunson hit a go-ahead f...

TORONTO - Blue Jays manager John Schneider is not reaching for the panic button with his whiz-kid pitcher, Trey Yesavage, despite a third straight rocky effort from the 22-year-old. Yesavage (2-3) was cruising on Friday until he reached the sixth innin...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Alison Lee seized a share of the lead at the 81st U.S. Women's Open on Friday with a second-round 68 in her native Los Angeles area, joining Ruoning Yin at 4-under 138 atop a crowded leaderboard at Riviera. World No. 1 Nelly Korda ju...

TORONTO - Adley Rutschman knocked in five runs with four hits, including a homer and a pair of two-run doubles, to spark the Baltimore Orioles to a 13-3 rout against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday. Coby Mayo followed Rutschman's lead in the five-run s...

FIFA announced on Friday that it will now allow fans to bring their own water bottles to some stadiums during the World Cup, adjusting a policy that had barred spectators from bringing refillable water bottles into the tournament's 16 stadiums across N...

Southampton FC said Friday that Canadian striker Cyle Larin has completed a permanent transfer to remain at the English club. The 31-year-old Larin, from Brampton, Ont., was a January recruit on loan from Spain's RCD Mallorca. He had eight goals in 16...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $176 million to the parents of two young brothers killed in a hit-and-run collision when a California socialite's car struck them in a crosswalk nearly six years ago. The jury found both Rebecca Grossma...

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) - J.T. Poston stepped onto the putting green Friday at the Memorial just in time to feel the first gust of wind, knowing a tough course was about to get even harder. Part of him was eager to see how a new golf ball to help with the wi...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Far from its European homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina has zealous fans in the American Midwest as it prepares for its second World Cup. An estimated 60,000-70,000 Bosnians live in St. Louis, with many arriving in the early 1990s durin...

MONTREAL - Maxime Crépeau shed tears during "O Canada" a day after earning the nod as the country's No. 1 goalkeeper for the FIFA World Cup. The 32-year-old from Candiac, Que., then showed why he's the man for the job in a stellar performance before hi...

Before the Carolina Hurricanes made their comeback, before the Vegas Golden Knights needed a goal with 81 seconds left in regulation to tie it and before Seth Jarvis scored in overtime, the sound of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final was silence. The same...

HAMILTON - Hamilton's PWHL expansion team signed Brianne Jenner to a three-year contract Friday, making the veteran forward the first player in franchise history. The Oakville, Ont., native joins Hamilton after captaining the Ottawa Charge through the ...

MAPLE RIDGE - Police in British Columbia say a former NHL player remains at large a day after authorities announced charges against him in the alleged attack on a taxi driver in Metro Vancouver. Link Gaetz, 57, is facing charges of assault and mischief...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks have hired Daren Hermiston as director of player personnel and player development. General manager Ryan Johnson announced the move Friday, saying Hermiston brings experience in player recruitment, evaluation and develo...

TORONTO - NHL executive Cliff Fletcher, who led the Calgary Flames to a Stanley Cup victory in 1989 and later helped turn the Toronto Maple Leafs into a contender, has died at 90. The Maple Leafs confirmed Fletcher's death in a release Friday without p...

MONTREAL - When Fabrice Mugabe was selected to play soccer for a Canadian team in Oslo, Norway, last year, he says he didn't have a passport and had never travelled for fun. Mugabe's family fled war in Rwanda when he was six years old and came to Mont...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Less than 12 hours after his team blew a two-goal lead and lost in overtime, coach John Tortorella has no issues with where his Vegas Golden Knights stand in the Stanley Cup Final against Carolina that is now all tied up at 1-1. In...

OTTAWA - Canadian and U.S. border law enforcement officials said Friday they expect to see a surge in counterfeit goods linked to the World Cup. Officials from the Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Se...

BERLIN (AP) - Serena Williams' comeback to tennis will include a stop in Berlin this month. Berlin Open organizers said Williams will compete in doubles at the grass-court event starting on June 13. Her partner and the date of her first match will be ...

Soccer fans will soon crisscross continents to see their beloved national teams compete on the sport's grandest stage, the World Cup. They'll pack bars and fan zones, singing chants and debating who is going to win it all. This time, however, it's diff...

TORONTO - FIFA is clarifying that soccer fans will be allowed to bring disposable water bottles to World Cup matches in Canada and the United States. A FIFA official said the announcement makes its policy clear following backlash about its ban on reusa...

Nick Suzuki thought his job was finished. The Canadiens captain had been tasked with announcing teammate Cole Caufield's first individual NHL award. Caufield, meanwhile, believed his morning would only consist of handing off similar honours to Suzuki d...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - FIFA has canceled World Cup tickets issued to about 60 fans who mistakenly got them for free because of a website error. The tickets were "allocated at no charge (0 USD) due to a prior payment issue during the ch...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The status of Vegas Golden Knights defenceman Brayden McNabb moving forward in the Stanley Cup Final is unclear after he took a puck to the face in Game 2. Coach John Tortorella had no update on McNabb on Friday other than to confi...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes combined for five goals in the frantic final 15 minutes of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night, and another one got waved off. It was somehow an even crazier finish th...

NEW YORK - Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Sebastian Berhalter is heading back to Major League Soccer's all-star game. The 25-year-old American was one of the first 11 players named to the roster Friday following voting by fans and media. The group will...

PARIS - Gabriela Dabrowski's French Open run ended Friday with an emphatic defeat in the women's doubles semifinals. The No. 1 team in the world, Czechia's Katerina Siniakova and American Taylor Townsend, trounced Dabrowski and Brazilian partner Luisa ...