National Sports
Manitoba sports organizations would track under-represented groups under new bill
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
WINNIPEG — Provincial amateur sports organizations in Manitoba may soon be required to track demographics and show efforts to make their sport more inclusive. A bill now before the legislature would require bodies that govern sports to obtain demographic information on participants and report each year on efforts to boost participation from under-represented groups. Sport ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ciss scores contested late goal to give Rayo Vallecano draw with Levante
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
MADRID (AP) — Pathé Ciss’ controversial goal in stoppage time gave Rayo Vallecano a 1-1 draw and shattered visiting Levante’s hopes on Monday of a rare win that would boost its chances of avoiding relegation from La Liga. Levante started the night second from bottom in the table and went ahead when 20-year-old Carlos Espí ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lions say Canadian Football Hall of Famer Tom Brown has died at age 89
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
VANCOUVER — Canadian Football Hall of Famer Tom Brown, a three-time CFL all-star who won a Grey Cup with the B.C. Lions in 1964, has died, the team said Monday. He was 89. A two-time winner of the CFL’s top lineman award, Brown played in 97 regular-season games with the Lions from 1961 to 1967. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Kerri Einarson beats Denmark’s Dupont 9-6 in women’s world curling
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
CALGARY — Kerri Einarson’s curling team has won a fourth straight game at the women’s world curling championship to maintain an unbeaten record. Einarson’s foursome out of Manitoba’s Gimli Curling Club defeated Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont 9-6 to get to 4-0. Denmark was down to three players at the fifth-end break because of illness. The team ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Igor Thiago celebrates Brazil call-up with goal in Brentford draw with Wolves
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
LONDON (AP) — Igor Thiago celebrated his first call-up to the Brazil squad by scoring Brentford’s second goal in a 2-2 thriller against Wolves in the Premier League on Monday. Nearing halftime, the striker tapped into the empty net for his 19th league goal of the season. A few minutes earlier, Michael Kayode’s glancing header ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. heli-ski company says snowboarder died in fall in a tree well
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
GOLDEN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — A British Columbia helicopter-ski company says that a snowboarder has died in the Kootenay region after falling in to a tree well. Great Canadian Heli-Skiing, based in Golden, B.C., says in a statement the person was a guest of their company and died on Saturday in the northern Selkirk Mountains ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas suspended 80 games by MLB for failed drug test
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas was suspended for the first 80 games of the season by Major League Baseball on Monday following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Boldenone. Rojas’ suspension was announced after a grievance filed by the players’ association appealing the discipline was denied by independent arbitrator Martin ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fiorentina beats Cremonese to pull away from Serie A drop zone
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
CREMONA, Italy (AP) — Fiorentina beat fellow Serie A struggler Cremonese 4-1 in its biggest away win of the season and moved four points clear of the relegation zone on Monday. It was only the second time all season that Fiorentina scored more than three goals in one game and moved it into 16th place. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alabama’s Aden Holloway, the Tide’s No. 2 scorer, is arrested on a felony drug charge
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama guard Aden Holloway was arrested on a felony drug charge Monday, just days before the start of the NCAA Tournament, authorities said. Holloway, 21, was arrested after agents with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force searched a residence near Alabama’s campus and “recovered more than a pound of marijuana, paraphernalia ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!College baseball notebook: Best in the West are flexing with torrid starts to the season
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
West Coast college baseball aficionados are puffing out their collective chests one month into the season, and they have good cause. UCLA, Southern California and Oregon have combined to win 53 of their first 59 games. Before the sport’s epicenter moved to the Southeastern Conference in the 1990s, the power resided west of the Rockies. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A heat wave with triple-digit temps is altering the MLB Cactus League schedule
By Canadian Press on March 16th, 2026
PHOENIX (AP) — Bringing the heat in spring training is supposed to be about hard-throwing pitchers, not triple-digit temperatures like those that will impact Major League Baseball spring training games in Arizona for several days this week. Because of a forecasted heat wave in the Phoenix area, at least 10 Cactus League games at six ... Read More »
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