OTTAWA - Jake Sanderson scored a pair of goals and the Ottawa Senators were closer to a playoff appearance with a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. Jordan Spence, Fabian Zetterlund, Tim Stützle and Shane Pinto also scored for Ottawa (41-...

MONTREAL - Cole Caufield and Alexandre Texier scored in the shootout after Nick Suzuki's late tying goal as the Montreal Canadiens came back to beat the Florida Panthers 4-3 on Tuesday night. Ivan Demidov and Phillip Danault also scored in regulation a...

TORONTO - Scottie Barnes had 25 points as the Raptors routed the Miami Heat 121-95 on Tuesday in a critical win for Toronto's post-season seeding. Barnes added eight rebounds and five assists for the Raptors (44-35), who tightened their grip on the six...

TORONTO - Hyeseong Kim scored twice and Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was strong over six-plus innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated Toronto 4-1 on Tuesday to hand the Blue Jays their sixth straight loss. Yamamoto (2-1) allowed five hits ...

LAVAL - Three second period goals spurred the Montreal Victoire to a 4-1 win over the Seattle Torrent in the Professional Women's Hockey League on Tuesday. Montreal moved closer to clinching home-ice advantage in the first round of playoffs. The Victoi...

TORONTO - Northern United, captained by Scotland's Bruce Mouat, won a second game in a row to lead curling's Rock League on Tuesday. Northern United beat Shield, captained by Canada's Brad Jacobs, 2-1 in their match to top the six-team standings at 2-0...

MONTREAL - American linebacker Micah Awe has signed a one-year contract with the Montreal Alouettes and returns to the club for a second stint. Awe led the CFL in defensive tackles with 114 in 2025 when he played for the B.C. Lions. He also contributed...

TORONTO - Toronto manager John Schneider was ejected in the fifth inning of the Blue Jays' game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night. Schneider came out of the dugout after Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman was charged with a balk. The skip...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - There's a neck-and-neck, three-way race for the Atlantic Division title, and the only person seemingly not buying into the buzz might be Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper. Emerging from the Lightning locker room before playing at Buffalo ...

Tyson Philpot is comfortable as the CFL benchmark at his position. Last December, the Montreal Alouettes signed Philpot to a two-year extension that made him the league's highest-paid Canadian receiver. The deal called for $275,000 in hard money for 20...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays placed outfielder Addison Barger on the 10-day injured list Tuesday with a left ankle sprain, the latest development in what has been a rough stretch for the reigning American League champions. Injuries and underperfor...

Michigan is No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the 2025-26 season after winning the program's first national championship in 37 years. The Wolverines (37-3) claimed all 57 votes in Tuesday's poll in the third y...

COLUMBIA - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tournament. Staley released a statement on South Caroli...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian soccer great who was a serial trophy winner as a player and a coach, has died. He was 80. Lucescu's death was confirmed by Bucharest University Emergency Hospital on Tuesday. He had b...

Sidney Crosby never played for an NCAA title. Neither did Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid or, going way back, Wayne Gretzky. For decades, the stars of the Canadian Hockey League were deemed pros as juniors - they received stipends - and ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Tom Fitzgerald called Sheldon Keefe on Monday to tell the coach he hired that after more than six years as general manager of the New Jersey Devils, he was leaving the organization. "It's not a good feeling to hear the news," Keefe ...

Augusta National Golf Club MASTERS TOURNAMENT Site: Augusta, Georgia. Course: Augusta National GC. Yardage: 7,565. Par: 72. Prize money: TBA ($21 million in 2025). Winner's share: TBA ($4.2 million in 2025). Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-3 p.m. (Prime...

OTTAWA - Almost a third of police probes involving members of foreign diplomatic missions in Canada in the last five years saw the subjects of the investigations leave the country before charges were laid or prosecuted. Documents obtained by The Canadi...

WINNIPEG - Mark Scheifele's 900th career NHL point came exactly how one might expect: setting up Kyle Connor, his longtime linemate. The veteran centre reached the milestone with a second-period assist, eventually finishing with three helpers in the Wi...

TORONTO - The Los Angeles Dodgers picked up where they left off in their return to Rogers Centre. Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman hit two-run homers, Dalton Rushing went deep twice and Shohei Ohtani had a solo shot as the Dodgers walloped the Blu...

Eight years after the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash, the legacy of one junior hockey player continues with an annual reminder for Canadians to register as organ donors. Green Shirt Day is a national campaign rooted in the memory of 21-year-old Log...

The Medicine Hat Tigers will continue their title defense against their divisional rival, the Calgary Hitmen, in the second round of the Western Hockey League playoffs.The matchup was confirmed after the Saskatoon Blades upset the Edmonton Oil Kings in overtime of Game 7 to punch their ticket to the second round.Medici...

INDIANAPOLIS - This title for Michigan's newest Fab Five will look better in the trophy case than a time capsule. Hard to be too picky - this new-age group of ballers in maize and blue showed they can win any which way. The five fabulous transfers who...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Jason Zucker tipped in Bowen Byram's shot for the go-ahead goal 7:38 into the second period, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-2 on Monday night, further tightening the race for the Atlantic Division title. ...

WINNIPEG - Kyle Connor scored twice while Jonathan Toews and Gabriel Vilardi had a goal and an assist each to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 6-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Monday night. Brad Lambert and Vladislav Namestnikov, into an empty net, al...

TORONTO - Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman, Dalton Rushing - with a pair - and Shohei Ohtani hit home runs to power the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 14-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night at Rogers Centre. It was the first meeting between the...

General manager Tom Fitzgerald is parting ways with the New Jersey Devils, the latest NHL team to make an abrupt late-season change in the front office or behind the bench. Co-owner David Blitzer announced Monday that a decision had been ...

SQUAMISH - British Columbia's Environment Ministry is urging visitors to stay away from the area where the shell of a red Volkswagen Beetle is suspended on a rock face above Highway 99 in Squamish, as a plan is formed to safely remove it. A statement f...