Category: Sports

Former Benetton boss Flavio Briatore has given an emotional update on the condition of his former driver Michael Schumacher. The seven-time world champion has not been seen publicly since his high-speed skiing accident in Meribel in December 2013, that left him with long-term brain injuries. Wife Corrine has since kept details of treatment and progress […]

Kaori Sakamoto, the three-time figure skating world champion, will retire after next year’s 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, she said Friday. The 25-year-old Japanese star won an Olympic bronze medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and took the silver medal in the world championships in March with gold to American Alysa Liu. Sakamoto […]

Canada’s Leylah Fernandez dropped a 6-3, 7-6 (6) decision to Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska in the Nottingham Open quarterfinals on Friday. Yastremska saved a set point in the second-set tiebreak. She converted both her break chances, while Fernandez went 1-for-8. Yastremska finished with five aces to Fernandez’s one. The Laval, Que., native, seeded fifth at the […]

A hockey stick said to have been owned and signed by Bill Barilko, the Toronto Maple Leaf who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in overtime in 1951 and died at age 24 in a plane crash that summer, is on the auction block. Miller and Miller Auctions, based out of New Hamburg, Ont., is selling the “game-issued” wooden stick from the 1950-51 season. The […]

Jonathan Toews is coming home. The former captain of Chicago’s NHL team and three-time Stanley Cup champion has agreed to sign with the Winnipeg Jets but can’t put ink to paper until July 1. “We are excited to add a proven winner like Jonathan Toews to the Winnipeg Jets,” general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff said in a […]

Steve O’Rourke was named coach of the PWHL Seattle expansion team on Friday. The move brings in a newcomer to women’s hockey, but someone who is very familiar to the Pacific Northwest having played at Washington State. “This is something I’ve thought about since the league was first announced,” O’Rourke said in a statement. “To […]

Canada coach Jesse Marsch is downplaying a CONCACAF investigation into his actions during the Canadian men’s opening game at the Gold Cup. Marsch told a news conference in Houston, in advance of Canada’s game against Curacao on Saturday, that the issue was of more interest to the media than the team. Noting that the disciplinary […]

Florian Wirtz has apologised to Liverpool fans after his record move to the club was officially confirmed. The 22-year-old has ended weeks of speculation by signing a new five-year contract at Anfield, for an initial £100million fee. The deal could rise to a British record fee of £116m after add-ons. After prolonged negotiations, the Reds […]

Former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel forced DAZN into an apology after ripping into Nicolas Jackson at the Club World Cup. The Chelsea striker was sent off four minutes after being introduced as a substitute in his side’s 3-1 defeat to Flamengo. Mikel labelled Jackson ‘stupid’ and accused the 24-year-old of being ‘p***ed off’ that […]

Maro Itoje’s Lions took failed to show their teeth as they went down to the Pumas but the captain insists there is more to come in Australia. The skipper was replaced with 11 minutes left and watched from the bench as his side threw the kitchen sink at the visitors but could get a clinching […]