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Maple Leafs goaltender Jack Campbell admitted that Toronto’s five-game winless skid was starting to weigh on the team. The arrival of Nick Foligno put a charge into the lineup Thursday as the club got back in the win column.Playing on the top line with Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner, Foligno...

Toronto FC goes into Wednesday’s rematch with Mexico’s Club Leon boosted by its first round of COVID-19 vaccinations but still feeling the effects of more mundane soccer injuries.TFC tied 1-1 in Leon last week in the first leg of their Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League round-of-16 tie, meaning it has a...

Blue Jays outfielder George Springer will play in an intrasquad game Friday, the next step on his return from two strained muscles that have delayed his Toronto debut.Springer signed a team-record US$150-million, six-year deal with the Blue Jays this off-season but missed time in spring training, first because of a...

For 48 hours, soccer stood on the brink. Fans took to the streets. Players broke into open revolt. Chaos stalked the game’s corridors of power, unleashing a shock wave that resonated around the world, from Manchester to Manila, Barcelona to Beijing and Liverpool to Los Angeles.That internationalism is what has...

Jamie Vardy ended his two-month goal drought as Leicester tightened its grip on a Champions League spot with a 3-0 win over West Bromwich Albion on Thursday that pushed the visitors closer to relegation.Vardy had not netted in his previous 11 games but opened the scoring in the 23rd minute,...

Shock and disbelief gave way to a swirl of emotions as players on the Canadian women’s hockey team packed their bags in Halifax and headed home Thursday.In a span of two days, they’d gone from nervously anticipating the announcement of the world championship roster to standing around baggage carousels feeling...

The top female hockey players in Sweden refused to attend training camp Thursday or play in an coming international tournament in Finland, the latest such move by a women’s national team to get better compensation.The Swedish Ice Hockey Federation said it had been informed of the looming boycott and was...

Vlatko Andonovski was vaulted into one of the most coveted positions in women’s soccer on Monday, taking the helm of the United States women’s national team in the wake of their record-extending fourth World Cup victory.Andonovski, a coach in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), takes over from Jill Ellis...

The U.S. women’s national team wants the U.S. Soccer Federation to repeal the anthem policy it instituted after Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during the The Star-Spangled Banner.The U.S. women’s team also wants the federation to state publicly that the policy was wrong and issue an apology to the team’s black...

Rafael Nadal beat Kei Nishikori 6-0, 2-6, 6-2 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open.The 11-time tournament champion looked ready to roll to a quick victory after dominating the first set, but Nishikori responded with some fine net play to level it at 1-1.Nadal broke Nishikori twice...

Simona Halep returned from injury to start her clay-court season with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Marketa Vondrousova on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix.The third-ranked Romanian was back on court for the first time since a shoulder injury forced her out of the Miami Open...

Having rapidly mobilized to thwart rebel clubs from joining a breakaway European competition, the Premier League is taking steps to prevent the so-called “Big Six” from attempting something similar in the future.England’s biggest clubs have often used threats of joining a Super League as a power play in the past...

Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Denis Shapovalov 6-2, 6-3 in an all-Canadian third-round match at the Barcelona Open on Thursday.The 10th-seeded Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, saved the only break point he faced on the clay court.The seventh-seeded Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., could save only five of nine break points.Shapovalov didn’t appear to...

A pronouncement from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola that the abandoned Super League was a “closed chapter” is proving way wide of the mark.The ripples of discontent from the failed power-grab by England’s so-called “Big Six” were continuing to be felt on Thursday, when a group of Manchester United fans...

Five years ago, Mark Shapiro took over a long-struggling team at the worst possible moment—as it was enjoying its greatest success in decades. Rather than being hailed as a saviour, Shapiro—an American—was seen as an outsider threatening change. There was little the former Cleveland president could have done to win...

Looking to spark a scuffling offence, Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo shook up his lineup Wednesday night and the Blue Jays responded in a 6-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox.After the start was delayed 31 minutes by rain, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit an RBI single in the first inning and...

Josh Anderson scored twice as the Montreal Canadiens survived a late Edmonton flurry to defeat the Oilers 4-3 on Wednesday night.Tyler Toffoli and Artturi Lehkonen had the other goals for Montreal (20-15-9). Jake Allen made 22 saves as the Canadiens picked up just their third win in the last nine...

If this season was like most others, Washington, Chicago and Toronto would be pretty much out of the race by now.The Wizards were 17-32 not that long ago and have not spent one single day over .500 in the past three seasons. The Bulls just had a stretch where they...

Pascal Siakam had 27 points and nine rebounds, OG Anunoby scored 25 points and the Toronto Raptors seized control in the third quarter in a 114-103 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night, extending their winning streak to four games.Kyrie Irving had 28 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists,...

All three Canadian MLS teams have got their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.The Vancouver Whitecaps, who have set up shop at Real Salt Lake’s Utah home due to pandemic-related border restrictions, got their vaccinations Tuesday.“I feel good,” coach Marc Dos Santos told reporters Wednesday. “My arm just feel sore,...