Nine months before the Tokyo Olympics, Canada’s Damian Warner finally has a place to train indoors. The decathlete’s coach, Gar Leyshon, brokered a deal between city officials in London, Ont., and London Western track and field club to use 66-year-old Farquharson Arena, which has been shuttered since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March. […]
Bev Priestman, who spent five years developing Canada’s next generation of soccer stars, is returning to take charge of the senior women’s program as it chases a third consecutive Olympic medal next summer in Tokyo. Priestman succeeds Kenneth Heiner-Møller, who announced in July he was stepping down to rejoin the Danish Football Association as head of […]
The Houston Texans closed their practice facility Wednesday, hours after a player tested positive for the coronavirus. The team was notified of the positive test on Tuesday night and said the unidentified player immediately self-isolated according to NFL protocols. Contact tracing is being conducted and the facility is underdoing “deep cleaning,” the Texans said in […]
Kyle Larson will be back in NASCAR next season driving the flagship No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. Larson signed a multi-year contract Wednesday with Hendrick that ended his nearly seven-month banishment from NASCAR for using a racial slur while playing an online racing game last spring. He’d been considered the top pending free agent […]
The National Lacrosse League hopes to start its next season in April. The NLL said Wednesday it is targeting the weekend of April 9-11, 2021 to begin play during the COVID-19 pandemic. The season has traditionally started in December or January. Training camps prior to the league’s 35th season would start in March, with some […]
Men’s 100-metre world champion Christian Coleman was banned for two years on Tuesday and lost his chance to succeed Usain Bolt as the fastest man at the Olympic Games. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said it banned the American sprinter for two years, until May 13, 2022, because of three violations of doping control rules. […]
Reaction from across Edmonton and the hockey world is pouring in for beloved local sports figure Joey Moss. Moss, 57, died on Monday afternoon. He was a locker room attendant for the Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Football Team for decades and was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. Moss, who was born with Down […]
This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Here’s what you need to know right now from the world of sports: Junior hockey is on thin ice Hard as the pandemic hit the NHL, it’s been even […]
Some of Kansas City’s most famous residents want to call the Toronto Raptors their home team. On the heels of reports the NBA season will tip off Dec. 22, and with federal and provincial restrictions around COVID-19 potentially keeping the Raptors out of Scotiabank Arena, there’s been rampant speculation about where the 2019 NBA champions […]
When Marnie McBean heard a knee ligament ‘pop’ just months before the 1992 Summer Olympics, she thought her Games were over. She overcame the hurdle and went on to win two gold medals in rowing that summer in Barcelona. McBean brings first-hand experience of conquering challenges to her role as Canadian chef de mission at […]
