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Unrivaled is ready for its closeup. The new three-on-three women's basketball league co-founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier debuted Friday night. The co-founders squared off in the opening game and fittingly Stewart scored the first basket in league history — a baseline jumper. Collier’s team got the last laugh though,...
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The Los Angeles Lakers are coming off a gritty win that saw three players register over 20 points each. Will they do the same against the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night?Catch the action at 10:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+, or follow along with the NBA Live Tracker.
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If these are the final weeks in Vancouver for the longest-tenured Canuck, Brock Boeser doesn't want his lasting regret to be that it ended when he was playing badly and the team was struggling.Iain MacIntyre speaks to the impending free agent as he grapples with an uncertain future.
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Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
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Last Aug. 7, Alysha Newman won Canada's first-ever Olympic medal in women's pole vault, earning bronze with a jump of 4.85m. It was also the first Olympic medal by a Canadian in the sport since William Halpenny's bronze in the men's competition at the 1912 Stockholm Games.
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Though the league’s official final day for trades comes on March 7, teams may view the inaugural international tournament as something of a trade deadline before the trade deadline, opting to make moves in advance of what could be an intense competition.
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Casey Stoney is ready to bring joy back to the pitch for the Canadian women's soccer team — but first, she plans to establish trust. Following the drone-spying scandal that unravelled at the Paris Olympics, Stoney joins the role at a precarious time for the program.
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All the top plays from the past 7 days in the NHL, including Calvin Pickard shutting down the door on a 2-on-1, Darren Raddysh with the bone-crushing hit on Bruins’ Cole Koepke, and Sam Reinhart showing off sick mitts and his elite finishing skills.
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It’s only mid-January, but we may be about to watch UFC's deepest card of 2025. With well-credentialed veterans and heavily hyped up-and-comers interspersed throughout the night, it's easy to go overlooked. With that in mind, here are a few under-the-radar names to keep an eye on Saturday night.
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The Raptors’ season is only half finished. Which isn't to say their rebuild is half-finished. It's barely started. But signs of hope are starting to emerge for the franchise. Michael Grange looks at five encouraging first-half trends that could develop over the final 41 games of the season.
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Carla MacLeod’s hard-working, “Alberta built” approach to hockey took her to world championship and Olympic podiums as a player. Now coaching internationally and with the PWHL’s Ottawa Charge, she’s spreading that same brand of hockey, one she says is “innately ingrained in us in Alberta.”
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Mikaela Shiffrin is back on snow and skiing regularly again at home in Colorado. When she'll return to racing after an unusual puncture wound to her side remains "a moving target" that probably won't be figured out for another week to 10 days, U.S. Ski Team head coach Paul Kristofic said.
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In a reversal of Thursday's podium, India Sherret of Cranbrook, B.C., won gold, while Ottawa's Hannah Schmidt claimed bronze despite crashing out with fourth-place finisher Brittany Phelan of Mont-Tremblant, Que., on the final day of racing at the World Cup event in Reiteralm, Austria.
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Coco Gauff still hasn't lost a match or even at set at the Australian Open — or, actually, this season. She moved into the fourth round at Melbourne Park with a straightforward 6-4, 6-2 victory over 2021 U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez on Friday night.
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Novak Djokovic sought assistance from a trainer for some trouble breathing Friday night, and went back-and-forth with one particularly loud spectator, but when the ball was in play at the Australian Open against Tomas Machac, all went quite smoothly for the 24-time Grand Slam champion.
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