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Canadian Lance Gibson Jr. loses UFC debut but joins father in record book
LAS VEGAS - Canadian (Fearless) Lance Gibson Jr. made it into the UFC record book Saturday, but didn't get the win in a short-notice fight against veteran American King Green. His father, Lance Sr., fought in UFC 24 and 29 in 2000, defeating Jermaine (...
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Miller scores twice, including OT winner, as Rangers edge Canadiens 5-4
NEW YORK (AP) - J.T. Miller scored his second goal of the game on a power play at 2:56 of overtime as the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-4 on Saturday night. Will Cuylle, Noah Laba and Artemi Panarin also scored to help the R...
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Vilardi props up Jets with two goals in 5-1 win over Capitals
WINNIPEG - Gabriel Vilardi scored twice and star goaltender Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves in his first game back from injury to power the Jets to a 5-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Saturday that snapped Winnipeg's three-game losing skid. T...
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Connor McDavid powers Oilers over Maple Leafs 6-3 in Tristan Jarry's Edmonton debut
TORONTO - Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist as the Edmonton Oilers thumped the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Saturday. Vasily Podkolzin, with two, Darnell Nurse and Zach Hyman provided the rest of the offence for Edmonton (15-11-6). Tristan Jarry...
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NHL roundup: Devils dumps Ducks 4-1 to snap five-game home losing skid
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Stefan Noesen, Paul Cotter and Cody Glass each scored to help the New Jersey Devils beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 on Saturday and snap a five-game home losing streak. New Jersey started the NHL season 9-0-1 on its home ice before losin...
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Joel Eriksson Ek's late goal lifts Wild past Senators 3-2
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Joel Eriksson Ek scored with 23.1 seconds remaining to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. Eriksson Ek buried a one-timer from the right circle after a cross-ice pass by Marcus Johansson to ...
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Lauren Coughlin holes bunker shot for eagle to team with Andrew Novak for lead at mixed-team event
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Lauren Coughlin holed a bunker shot for eagle on the par-5 17th hole Saturday, and she and Andrew Novak teamed for a stout 4-under 68 in foursomes to build a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Grant Thornton Invitationa...
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Hockey Canada unveils blueprint to grow game for women and girls
EDMONTON - Hockey Canada has unveiled a blueprint to get more oomph behind girls and women in the sport. Registration of female players, coaches and officials has increased, but the organization states that still represents less than 20 per cent of its...
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Canada's Naomi Urness captures gold in women's freeski big air at World Cup
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - Canadian freestyle skier Naomi Urness struck gold in women's big air World Cup competition on Saturday. The Mont-Tremblant, Que., native had a score of 156.25. Ukraine's Kateryna Kotsar (152.50) and China's Yang Ruyi (148.50) rounde...
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'Very exciting': Tristan Jarry reflects on trade to Edmonton Oilers
TORONTO - Tristan Jarry was at home Friday morning when his phone rang. Pittsburgh Penguins general manager and president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas was on the line. He needed to see the veteran goaltender right away. Jarry had no idea his time pl...
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Canadian snowboarder Kaylie Buck earns World Cup silver
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO - Canadian snowboarder Kaylie Buck earned World Cup silver in the women's parallel giant slalom event on Saturday. The Oakville, Ont., native finished with a time of one minute 17.35 seconds. Austria's Sabine Payer (1:15.99) defeated ...
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Ottawa's Isabelle Weidemann earns speedskating World Cup silver in 3000m
HAMAR - Canadian speedskater Isabelle Weidemann raced to World Cup silver on Saturday in the women's 3,000 metres to capture her second individual distance medal of the season. Weidemann, from Ottawa, worked through a slow start before overtaking pair ...
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Robert Rousseau, four-time Stanley Cup champ with Habs in 1960s, dead at 85
Robert (Bobby) Rousseau, a four-time Stanley Cup champion with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1960s, has died. He was 85. The Canadiens made the announcement Saturday, mentioning he had died in Trois-Rivières, Que., but no cause of death was revealed. ...
Dec 13, 2025
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NHL roundup: Blues beat Blackhawks 3-2 as Mailloux, Luff score first goals
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Logan Mailloux and Matt Luff each scored his first goal of the season, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Friday night. Justin Faulk also scored and Robert Thomas had two assists for the Blues, who won for the t...
Dec 13, 2025
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Vancouver Canucks trade captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks' front office has known for months that the team's captain was unlikely to stick around long term. Now the Quinn Hughes era has officially come to an end. Vancouver dealt the superstar defenceman to the Minnesota Wil...
Dec 13, 2025
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Canadian women's hockey team regroups ahead of Rivalry Series finale
EDMONTON - The Canadian women's hockey team regrouped ahead of its last Rivalry Series game against United States, and after a rough outing against its archrival. The U.S. claimed the four-game series by winning the first three by a combined scored of ...
Dec 12, 2025
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Jays acquire right-hander Chase Lee from Tigers for lefty Johan Simon
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired right-handed pitcher Chase Lee from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for left-handed pitcher Johan Simon, the Major League Baseball club announced Friday. The 27-year-old Lee appeared in 32 games for the Tige...
Dec 12, 2025
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Stadium renos force Atletico Ottawa to shift CONCACAF Champions Cup game to Hamilton
Atletico Ottawa will shift its CONCACAF Champions Cup first-round game with Nashville SC to Forge FCs Hamilton Stadium due to renovations at Ottawa's TD Place Stadium. The Canadian Premier League champion will face the MLS side in the first leg Feb. 17...
Dec 12, 2025
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Thompson and Clark's late surge catch record 55 of Brennan and Hull at Grant Thornton
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Lexi Thompson and Wyndham Clark shared the lead Friday with Charley Hull and Michael Brennan, both teams making only three pars in the scramble format as each posted a 17-under 55 to set the scoring record in the Grant Thornton Invi...
Dec 12, 2025
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Ice dancers Gilles, Poirier searching for answers as judging clouds Olympic season
Piper Gilles shook her head as the scores popped up on the screen. She and Paul Poirier had just delivered their cleanest free dance of the season at the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan. The kind of skate that has landed the Canadian duo on the world...
Dec 12, 2025
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Bus carrying junior hockey team crashes in northern Alberta, two sent to hospital
ATHABASCA - Mounties in northern Alberta say there were multiple injuries after a bus carrying a junior hockey team went off a slippery and snow-covered highway. Police said the bus went into a ditch south of Athabasca early Friday, and two teens were ...
Dec 12, 2025
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Atletico Ottawa coach Diego Mejia to stay on with CPL champion next season
OTTAWA - Not surprisingly, Atletico Ottawa has confirmed head coach Diego Mejia will be back next season. Mejia, 42, led Ottawa to the North Star Cup for the first time in club history with a 2-1 win over Cavalry FC in the Nov. 9 Canadian Premier Leagu...
Dec 12, 2025
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Canadian junior team adds Vanacker to camp, Misa expected to join later
CALGARY - Forward Marek Vanacker has been added to Team Canada's camp ahead of the world junior hockey championship, Hockey Canada announced Friday. The 19-year-old from Delhi, Ont., has 26 goals and 15 assists in 26 games with the Ontario Hockey Leagu...
Dec 12, 2025
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Canadian lightweight Lance Gibson Jr. follows his father's footsteps to the UFC
Lance Gibson Jr. was eating a late dinner Monday when the call came, telling him to pack his bags and be ready to jump on a plane because the UFC might need him on Saturday's UFC Fight Night card in Las Vegas. "I was running around, grabbing all my gea...
Dec 12, 2025
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