Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Team member Oliver Dawson won the 200 metre breaststroke at the Canadian Olympic swim trials Wednesday in Toronto.Dawson lowered his own personal best time in the final after breaking the Canadian record for 15 to 17 year olds and the provincial record earlier in the day during preliminarie...

The Storm have promoted Beaverlodge product Chris Schmidt to head coach. He has been with the team as an assistant coach for the past three years. "I am excited for the opportunity to be stepping into the role of head coach. It's a great privilege to be able to work with these young, dedicated athletes who are wor...

One game on Wednesday night will kick off the 2024 Wheatbelt Baseball League season.The Grimshaw Huskies will visit the Peace River Stampeders. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:15.There is also a game Thursday. Rycroft will visit the County Brewers. The start time there will also be 7:15 p.m.For the second time in as...

One province won both gold medals at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships played in Grande Prairie. Ontario beat Alberta 3-0 in the girl's gold medal game Saturday at the Design Works Centre.Ontario also won the boy's gold medal, beating Saskatchewan 4-0 in the final.Organizers cancelled both bronze medal games...

Grande Prairie will be well-represented at Swimming Canada's 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Trials.They will start Monday, May 13 and continue through Sunday, May 19 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.Seven members of the Grande Prairie Piranhas Swim Team will be competing.That includes Marissa and Mikayla Laurin, Domini...

The 2024 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship has made the difficult decision to cancel it's Bronze medal games for both the Males and Females.The cause was credited to the ongoing wildfire situation in the Peace region. Photo Courtesy NAHCAt this time, the Gold Medal games remain in place; on the Women's side it wi...

PRAGUE (AP) - Sweden killed off a 5-minute major before scoring three goals in a 26-second span in the middle period to pull away from Latvia in a 7-2 win that clinched a playoff-round berth at the men's world hockey championships on Saturday. The Swedes, who have not trailed in the tournament, preserved their perfect ...

DENVER (AP) - Matt Duchene scored at 11:42 of the second overtime after being involved in a play that led to a goal disallowed for goaltender interference in the first extra period, and the Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference final with a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 on Friday night. Du...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Pascal Siakam had 25 points and seven rebounds, Myles Turner added 17 points and eight rebounds, and the Indiana Pacers turned the tables on the New York Knicks with a 116-103 victory Friday night to even the Eastern Conference semifinals at 3-3. The decisive Game 7 will be played Sunday at Madison ...

TORONTO - Starting pitcher Tyler Alexander flirted with a perfect game as the Tampa Bay Rays held off the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Friday Alexander (2-2) didn't allow a baserunner through 7 1/3 innings, but ultimately surrendered three runs on three hits and struck out four. Relievers Manuel Rodriguez and Pete Fairbank...

BOSTON (AP) - Gustav Forsling scored the tiebreaking goal on a rebound with 1:33 left, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 22 shots for the Florida Panthers to beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Friday night and win their second-round playoff series in six games. The Panthers advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, where they w...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - What Tiger Woods really needs is to play more real rounds to get used to hitting important shots in big situations again. Any chance of that happening this weekend came to an ugly end in three bunkers over the first four holes during the second round of the PGA Championship. Woods made two tripl...

TORONTO - Taylor Heise scored twice, including the winner in the third period, as Minnesota downed Toronto 4-1 on Friday to win a best-of-five Professional Women's Hockey League semifinal 3-2. Denisa Krizova and Sophia Kunin had the other goals for Minnesota, which fell behind 2-0 in the series before winning three st...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Scottie Scheffler was in handcuffs before dawn in the back of a police car. His warmup routine began in a jail cell. And some six hours later, Scheffler remarkably signed for a 5-under 66 and was right in the mix Friday at the PGA Championship. Xander Schauffele, fresh off his record start of 62,...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Rising star Atthaya Thitikul birdied five of the final seven holes in a round of 7-under 65 to grab the halfway lead in the Mihuho Americas Open on Friday, with top-ranked Nelly Korda in contention one week after having her LPGA record-tying five tournament winning streak halted. Thitikul, who ...

Featherweight Charles (Air) Jourdain has been added to UFC 303, joining fellow Canadians Gillian (The Savage) Robertson and Marc-Andre (Powerbar) Barriault on Irish star Conor McGregor's comeback fight card. Jourdain (15-7-1) will take on Brazil's Jean (Lord) Silva on the June 29 mixed martial arts show at T-Mobile Are...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Kiera Van Ryk of Surrey, B.C., had a game-high 27 points as Canada defeated China 3-1 in women's Volleyball Nations League on Friday. Canada, ranked 11th in the world, won the opening set 25-22 before No. 6 China took the second set 25-20. Canada responded by winning the third set 25-23 and finished Ch...

MONTREAL - In nearly five years in Montreal Olivier Renard was not one to beat around the bush, but he skilfully navigated a tricky situation on Friday. CF Montreal's former vice president and sporting director bid farewell to the city in front of about 20 media representatives a week after his mutual separation from t...

Toronto's Penny Oleksiak won the women's 100-metre freestyle on Friday night at the Olympic & Paralympic Trials. Oleksiak finished with a time of 53.66 seconds to go just over the Olympic qualifying time of 53.61. Mary-Sophie Harvey of Laval, Que., placed second in 53.71 seconds. Oleksiak, a seven-time Olympic med...

TORONTO - Three of the Blue Jays' relief pitchers have scheduled appearances with Toronto's triple-A affiliate as they recover from injuries. Chad Green and Bowden Francis will pitch for the Buffalo Bisons on Sunday. Yariel Rodriguez will take the mound for Buffalo on Tuesday. Green has been nursing a right shoulder st...

MONTREAL - Marie-Philip Poulin couldn't find enough positive things to say about her experience in Year 1 of the Professional Women's Hockey League, even though she had to work through a malfunctioning microphone to express it. Montreal's captain winced as a staticky, distorted noise echoed through the speakers during ...

VANCOUVER - The Oilers have been here before, heading back to Edmonton with their season on the line. The team is looking for a different result this time around. "You just have to take it one game at a time," Oilers star Leon Draisaitl said Friday. "We've got to go home and win one game at home. That'...

Toronto FC coach John Herdman is expecting a motivated CF Montreal at BMO Field on Saturday when the two teams renew their rivalry. Both teams are coming off losses and looking for a change in fortunes. A depleted Toronto, its roster shredded by suspensions and injuries, fell 2-0 at Nashville SC on Wednesday. It was a ...

OTTAWA - All eyes will be on Dru Brown to provide much-needed stability at quarterback this season for the Ottawa Redblacks. After a tumultuous four-year period marked by frequent changes and inconsistent performances, the Redblacks are banking on Brown's skill set to revitalize their offence. The Redblacks haven't pos...

Toronto FC fullback/wingback Richie Laryea and New York City FC defender Strahinja Tanasijevic have both been fined and handed an additional one-game suspension for their role in an ugly-post-game melee at BMO Field last Saturday. The league had announced one-game suspensions for both players ahead of midweek play. Tor...

VANCOUVER - Worn down but not worn out, the Vancouver Whitecaps (5-4-3) will look to reignite their offence when they visit the Seattle Sounders (3-6-4) on Saturday. It will be their fifth match in 15 days and comes just three days after a 1-0 road loss to the Colorado Rapids. "We don't have to hide behind it, tha...

DENVER (AP) - The Dallas Stars will be without centre Roope Hintz for a second straight game because of an upper-body injury. Hintz will miss Game 6 of their second-round series with the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night. The Stars can advance to the Western Conference Final for the second year in a row with a win. Th...

PRAGUE (AP) - JJ Peterka had a goal and three assists, Wojciech Stachowiak set up four goals, and Germany clinched a playoff berth with an 8-2 rout of Kazakhstan at the men's hockey world championship on Friday. Philipp Grubauer, who plays for the NHL's Seattle Kraken, stopped 18 shots in helping Germany (3-2) move int...