EDMONTON - Stuart Skinner has been here before. Like every professional hockey player, the Edmonton Oilers goalie has weathered periods of patchy play over his career. Now he's looking to those experiences as he fights to regain his form. "I think going through those adversities have really helped me, especially t...

BALTIMORE (AP) - The Toronto Blue Jays are having a hard enough time this year when their lineup is healthy. So Monday's 3-2 win in 10 innings over the American League's top team - with several Toronto players battling illness - was a potential turning point. "You don't want to say May 13 is a huge game, but this ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Jayson Tatum scored 33 points with LeBron James watching from a courtside seat and the Boston Celtics beat the severely short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers 109-102 in Game 4 on Monday night to take a commanding 3-1 lead in their East semifinal series. Jaylen Brown added 27 for the Celtics, who can close o...

NEW YORK (AP) - Jordan Staal and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored 3:06 apart in the third period, and the Carolina Hurricanes got four goals in the final period for a 4-1 win over the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the second-round NHL playoff series on Monday night, staving off elimination for the second straight game. Jordan ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Daulton Varsho robbed a homer with his glove, hit one with his bat and then drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning with a ground ball to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night. The Blue Jays overcame two home runs by Adley Rutschman, tying the game on V...

DENVER (AP) - Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin was suspended for at least six months without pay and placed in Stage 3 of the league's player assistance program before Game 4 on Monday night of a second-round playoff series with the Dallas Stars. The National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players...

Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation president and chief executive officer John Bean will step down and be replaced by Robert Hayes. Lorenzo DeCicco joining CSEC as chief operating officer was among other changes to senior executive leadership announced Monday by the Flames. Bean will remain in an advisory rol...

TORONTO - Swimming sensation Summer McIntosh is setting the early tone at the weeklong Olympic & Paralympic Trials. The 17-year-old from Toronto finished first in the women's 400-metre freestyle at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. McIntosh finished in three minutes 59.06 seconds. She was the lone swimmer in the ra...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders have signed the team's first overall pick in this year's CFL draft. The Stampeders chose defensive back Ben Labrosse of Greenfield Park, Que., fourth overall. The six-foot, 189-pound product of McGill attended the New York Giants mini rookie camp that concluded Sunday. Labrosse, 24, was...

MONTREAL - Kori Cheverie heard the jubilation coming from the visitors' locker room loud and clear Saturday night. The PWHL Montreal head coach is eager for her team to prove it was premature. Boston put Montreal on the ropes with a triple-overtime road victory to take a 2-0 series lead in their best-of-five semifinal,...

American Jesse Marsch has been named coach of the Canadian men's soccer team. Canada Soccer said Marsch, the former coach of Leeds United, RB Leipzig, Red Bull Salzburg, New York Red Bulls and Montreal Impact, takes over immediately with a contract that runs through July 2026. The Canadian men have been without a perma...

Paul Maurice is in his second season coaching the Florida Panthers, trying to guide them to a second consecutive appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. It was pointed out to him not long ago that, in his current profession, two years seems like an eternity. Such is the life he chose. "Tough business," Maurice s...

PRAGUE (AP) - Slovakia upset the United States 5-4 when Milos Kelemen scored with 1:04 left in overtime at the ice hockey world championship on Monday. The Americans were handed their second loss in three games. Libor Hudacek, Simon Nemec and Patrik Koch also scored for the Slovaks and goaltender Samuel Hlavaj stopped ...

New York City FC coach Nick Cushing has repeated his denial of allegations that he punched a Toronto FC player, saying he is shocked and upset at the claim. The two teams clashed on the pitch following NYCFC's 3-2 win Saturday night at BMO Field. After the game, Toronto coach John Herdman and captain Jonathan Osorio s...

NEW YORK - Vancouver defenceman Nikita Zadorov has been fined US$5,000 by the NHL and Canucks blue-liner Carson Soucy will have a hearing with the league for cross-checks on Edmonton superstar Connor McDavid. The discipline stems from an incident after the final buzzer sounded Vancouver's 4-3 Game 3 win over the Oilers...

HAMILTON - Bo Levi Mitchell was on the field Monday at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats training camp. The veteran quarterback was in equipment and threw passes with the offence at Ron Joyce Stadium. Mitchell's appearance came five days after he reported to rookie camp wearing a walking boot on his right foot. Mitchell, 34, suf...

ROME - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime was knocked out of the Italian Open after falling 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 to Australia's Alex de Minaur on Monday. The Laval, Que., native fired five aces but made 13 double faults during the Round of 32 match that lasted over three hours. De Minaur, with one ace and one double fault, capita...

The New York Rangers can become the first team to reach the third round of the post-season with a win tonight against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes, while the Colorado Avalanche will aim to level their series with the visiting Dallas Stars. And in Edmonton, where the Canucks lead the Oilers 2-1, Vancouver defenceman...

BOSTON (AP) - Aleksander Barkov slipped through three Bruins defenders to score the go-ahead goal on Sunday night, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 16 shots to give the Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory over Boston and a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. One year after Florida knocked out the record-setti...

EDMONTON - Brock Boeser had two goals and an assist, and the Vancouver Canucks hung on for a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series. The Canucks now lead the best-of-seven matchup 2-1, with Game 4 set for Tuesday in Edmonton. Elias Lindholm also scored twice for Van...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Tyrese Haliburton scored 20 points, T.J. McConnell added 15 points and 10 assists and the Indiana Pacers rolled to their third-biggest playoff victory ever, beating the New York Knicks 121-89 on Sunday to even the NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series at 2-2. Haliburton also had six rebounds, five...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Nikola Jokic scored 16 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter, and Aaron Gordon had 27 points on 11-for-12 shooting to propel the Denver Nuggets to a series-tying 115-107 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals. Jamal Murray had 12 of his...

CALGARY - Canada beat the United States 2-1 to win the world para hockey championship Sunday. The Canadians halted a run of three straight world titles by the U.S., claimed their first since 2017, and also won their first world gold medal on home ice. Dominic Cozzolino and Anton Jacobs-Webb scored and Canadian goaltend...

BOSTON (AP) - Aleksander Barkov slipped through three Bruins defenders to score the go-ahead goal on Sunday night, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 16 shots to give the Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory over Boston and a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. One year after Florida knocked out the record-setti...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Rory McIlroy has a full head of steam heading into the PGA Championship. McIlroy won the Wells Fargo Championship for a record fourth time Sunday with another dominating performance at Quail Hollow, easily overcoming a two-stroke deficit to beat Xander Schauffele by five shots. No other player ha...

CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) - Rose Zhang won the Cognizant Founders Cup on Sunday to end Nelly Korda's record-tying LPGA Tour winning streak, rallying to beat Madelene Sagstrom by two strokes. Zhang birdied four of the final five holes to overcome a three-shot deficit in a thrilling final-round duel with Sagstrom after the two ...

CALGARY - Quarterback meetings were crowded to start Calgary Stampeders' training camp. Seven quarterbacks, including last year's starter Jake Maier, were on McMahon Stadium's turf Sunday. One of them, local product Danny Skelton, was a CFL quarterback internship participant. But Maier and last season's backups Tommy S...

TORONTO - Carlos Santana's three-run homer in the seventh inning broke open a scoreless tie as the Minnesota Twins beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 on Sunday. Max Kepler had a two-run double in the eighth as Minnesota (24-16) won the rubber match of the three-game series. Bailey Ober (4-1) pitched one-hit ball over 6 1/3...