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Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are settling for silver once again, but they hope it serves as a springboard to gold at next year's Olympics.

The word "rivalry" tends to carry a combative connotation, so perhaps it's best to describe the relationship between American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates and their Canadian counterparts, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, as healthy competition.

Reigning world champion Ilia Malinin delivered a season-best short program on Thursday night, giving the young American star a slim lead over Japan's Yuma Kagiyama in what has quickly become a two-man race to this year's title.

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American figure skater Alysa Liu assumed the lead after the short program on the opening night of the world championships on Wednesday, proving that the Olympian is much farther along in her comeback from retirement than almost anyone thought.

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On Sunday night, at the Nations Cup in Los Angeles, Jonathan David scored a goal in the second half to boost Canada up 2-1 over the USA.

In the weeks following Canada's loss to France at the Paris Olympics men's basketball tournament, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander gathered teammates in a gym at Humber College near Toronto.

The news that Gerald Phiri, the retired Olympic sprinter and current head track coach at the Montverde Academy in Florida, had been provisionally suspended by World Athletics' Athletics Integrity Unit following a doping investigation seemed to come out of nowhere.

The host Ottawa Gee-Gees scored twice in the first period, added another in the second and then held off a late rally for a 3-2 victory over the Concordia Stingers in Sunday's championship final of the U Sports University Cup at TD Place.

Rachel Homan's Canadian curling team has won the women's world championship with a 7-3 victory over Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

Tereza Vanišová scored three goals in a 10-minute span of the second and third quarters, leading the Ottawa Charge to a 5-2 victory over the New York Sirens on Saturday in Newark, N.J. Vanišová is now the first PWHL player to score two hat tricks in the same season.

Canada's Rachel Homan topped South Korea's Gim Eun-ji 6-5 in an extra end on Saturday in the semifinals of the women's curling world championship in Uijeongbu, China.

American George Foreman, one of the great second acts in sports who reclaimed the heavyweight boxing title after coming out of retirement and later became a celebrated product pitchman, died on Friday at age 76, his family said.

Canada's Liam Brearley won the men's title in the snowboard slopestyle competition at the FIS snowboard world championships in Silvaplana, Switzerland, on Friday.

It was one of the indelible moments from the Paris Olympics.

With athletes like Caitlin Clarke, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers battling it out in last year's women's NCAA March Madness tournament, 24 million viewers tuned in for the championship game.

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As he approaches his final week in the sporting world's top job, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is feeling relaxed.

Young women, among those in a record-breaking crowd, held up signs with messages for the Professional Women's Hockey League.

Behind closed doors at a resort in Greece, with the cameras turned off, International Olympic Committee (IOC) members will choose a new president on Thursday at the organization's 144th session.

Gage Grassick scored 35 points, including seven three-pointers, as the top-seeded Saskatchewan Huskies used some deadly accurate shooting to defeat the Carleton Ravens 85-66 to win the U Sports women's basketball Final 8 championship game at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium on Sunday.

Canada's men's short track relay team joined its women counterparts on the top of the speed skating podium, one of three gold in a six-medal haul Sunday at at the ISU world championships in Beijing.

Alex Ovechkin scored his 887th career goal Saturday against the San Jose Sharks to move within eight of breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record.

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The PWHL's one and only swap on trade deadline day came down to the wire.

Canadian freestyle skier Philippe Marquis has always felt most at home in the mountains, his playground a postcard of snow-capped beauty.

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U Sports is ramping up its own March madness.

Beckie Scott has lived many different lives.

Canada will host Argentina in a pair of women's international soccer friendlies in B.C. during the April FIFA international window.

The saying "just make eight" has been used all season long by the members of Team Brad Jacobs.

Canadian alpine skier Jack Crawford claimed silver on Sunday in a tight men's super-G race at the World Cup stop in Kvitfjell, Norway.

When veteran skip Brad Jacobs joined his new teammates last spring, one of their main goals was to get to the final Sunday at the Montana's Brier. 

The path to a Montana's Brier title remains long for Alberta's Brad Jacobs after he split a pair of qualifier games Friday while back-to-back losses ended Mike McEwen's brief playoff run in Kelowna, B.C.

An off-day for Reid Carruthers at the Montana's Brier in Kelowna, B.C., became much busier on Thursday night.

Natalie Wilkie was on her flight to Norway for a landmark competition when a man next to her struck up conversation.

Alex Ovechkin scored his 885th career goal midway through the third period of the Washington Capitals' game against New York Rangers on Wednesday night, moving nine away from tying Wayne Gretzky's NHL record.

The youngest skeleton world champion ever has already been through a lot.

Call it the first free-agent signing in Toronto Tempo history.

Both Saskatchewan teams posted victories in the early draw as Rylan Kleiter defeated Prince Edward Island's Tyler Smith 7-4 and Mike McEwen held off Nova Scotia's Owen Purcell 8-6.

Olympic ice dance champion Guillaume Cizeron of France is teaming up with Canadian Laurence Fournier Beaudry, he said Sunday.

Montreal Victoire captain Marie-Philip Poulin put it best when asked to describe her team's dramatic come-from-behind 3-2 overtime win over the Boston Fleet on Saturday afternoon at Bell Centre.

Inside a Halifax hotel ballroom on a cold night in early February, kids and adults lined up for a chance to take a picture with a shark.

Canadian swimming superstar Summer McIntosh has decided to make a coaching change to help in her pursuit of five gold medals at the next Olympics.