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Toronto Argonauts re-sign veteran linebacker Adarius Pickett to CFL deal
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
TORONTO — Adarius Pickett is back with the Toronto Argonauts. The standout linebacker signed a one-year deal with Toronto, the team with which he enjoyed his best CFL season in 2023. Pickett returns to Toronto after spending the past two seasons with the Ottawa Redblacks. He and the CFL club mutually agreed to part ways ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man City close to buying Guehi and manager Glasner announces he is leaving Crystal Palace in summer
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City is close to signing defender Marc Guehi, Oliver Glasner said Friday while also announcing that he would be quitting as Crystal Palace manager at the end of the season. England international Guehi saw a proposed move to Liverpool collapse on transfer- deadline day in the summer and was widely ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Britain’s Matt Weston, Belgium’s Kim Meylemans clinch World Cup skeleton season titles
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
ALTENBERG, Germany (AP) — Britain’s Matt Weston is the World Cup men’s skeleton overall champion, again. And for the first time, Belgium’s Kim Meylemans is the World Cup women’s overall champion. Locking up their status as favorites for Olympic gold at next month’s Milan Cortina Games, Weston and Meylemans clinched their seasonlong titles Friday in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Yeo has 18 as Seattle U knocks off San Diego 75-64
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
SEATTLE (AP) — Junseok Yeo scored 18 points as Seattle beat San Diego 75-64 on Thursday. Yeo shot 5 of 11 from the field, including 2 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 6 for 7 from the line for the Redhawks (13-6, 2-4 West Coast Conference). Brayden Maldonado shot 5 for 12 (3 for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The road back to title contention was long for Miami. The Hurricanes have finally broken through
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami safety Jakobe Thomas enjoyed seeing the Hurricanes at their worst. He was with Middle Tennessee State in 2022 when the Blue Raiders — four-touchdown underdogs that day — came into Hard Rock Stadium and used big play after big play to beat Miami 45-31, part of the Hurricanes’ spiral ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ukraine’s young skiers practice in a bombed-out Olympic training base
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Young athletes in northern Ukraine spend their days cross-country skiing through a scorched forest, focused on their form — until a siren inevitably shatters the silence. They respond swiftly but without panic, ditching their skis and following coaches to an underground bomb shelter. It’s an ordinary training session at the complex ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crystal Palace and Fiorentina will head east after Conference League knockout playoffs draw
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Crystal Palace and Fiorentina face trips to eastern Europe in the Conference League after both preseason favorites found the opening phase tough and landed in the knockout playoffs round draw Friday. Palace is away in the first leg against Bosnian champion Zrinjski Mostar while Fiorentina — a two-time beaten finalist — ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Giovanni Franzoni’s win in Wengen super-G makes him an Olympic contender for host Italy
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Host Italy has a new contender in Alpine skiing with the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics three weeks away. Giovanni Franzoni claimed his first World Cup victory on the famed Lauberhorn course in a super-G Friday — four months after his close friend and former roommate, Matteo Franzoso, died in a crash ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Al-Attiyah and Brabec dominate penultimate stage to edge closer to Dakar Rally victories
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
YANBU, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and rider Ricky Brabec are set to win the Dakar Rally after dominating their closest pursuers in the Saudi desert on Friday. Both of them won the 311-kilometer 12th and penultimate stage between Al Henakiyah and Yanbu, the rally starting point on the Red Sea coast two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Giovanni Franzoni’s run in Wengen super-G makes him an Olympics contender for host Italy
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Host Italy has a new contender in Alpine skiing with the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics three weeks away. Giovanni Franzoni was in position to claim his first World Cup victory on the famed Lauberhorn course in a super-G Friday. The 24-year-old Franzoni — a former world junior champion in super-G, downhill ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Has figure skating reached the limits of human performance?
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2026
It was at a relatively minor event in upstate New York in September 2022 that Ilia Malinin, the self-anointed “Quad God” who was fast becoming the biggest name in figure skating, finally landed the jump that so many people had thought impossible. Others had tried quad axels in competition over the years. All of them ... Read More »
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