The defending B.C. Men's curling champions have announced the team is breaking up after one season together.Team Catlin Schneider had included Jason Ginter of Dawson Creek (second from left) and Sterling Middleton from Fort St. John (second from right).They won the B.C. men's title in Esquimalt and carried the province...

The Dawson Creek Spring Break-Up Rodeo is set for Friday and Saturday at the Ovintiv Events Centre. Start time is 7:00 PM B.C. time both days. There was also a junior rodeo held earlier on Friday. The slack goes at noon on Saturday. Tickets at www.lakeviewtix.caHigh school rodeo at Evergreen ParkThe Alberta High School...

A Grande Prairie-born, Saskatoon-raised player is going into the Volleyball Canada Hall of Fame.Gavin Schmidt played for the national team from 2007 to 2016 after playing in the ACAC and at the university level.He won a bronze medal with Team Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto and represented our country in the...

The winners of the Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection's 2024 Northwest Alberta Sport Excellence awards were announced at a ceremony at Clarkson Hall on Friday, April 12.Two new categories were added this year, the Junior Official of the Year award, and the Spirit of Sport award.Thirteen athletes, community member...

Chanse Vigen and Dayton Sutherland tied for the top bid among drivers from the Peace at Thursday's tarp auction for the Calgary Stampede's Rangeland Derby.The tarps on their wagons sold for $160,000.00 each. They were third overall behind Kris Molle's $210,000.00 and Kurt Bensmiller's $175,000.00. Molle drew the top bi...

Some local sports people will be recognized tonight (Friday, April 12) at the Northwest Alberta Sport Excellence Awards.They are taking place at Clarkson Hall in Evergreen Park.The awards are being given out in a dozen categories, including Male and Female Athlete of the Year, along with awards for coaches, officials a...

TORONTO - Rogers Communications and the NHL have reached an exclusive agreement with Amazon's Prime Video to carry Monday regular-season games in Canada for the next two seasons. Rogers and the league said in a joint statement Thursday that Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night ...

ÖSTERSUND, Sweden - Canada's Kadriana and Colton Lott scored an 11-4 win over Australia on Thursday, securing their spot in the playoffs at the world mixed doubles curling championship. The husband-and-wife team from Gimli, Man., opened with a deuce and then stole a single in the second end to take an early 3-0 le...

MADRID - Montreal's Félix Auger-Aliassime rallied to defeat Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the first round of the Madrid Open on Thursday. Auger-Aliassime, ranked 35th in the world, fired 11 aces and won 81 per cent of his first serves in a match that lasted two hours and 19 minutes on the clay surf...

VANCOUVER - Wrexham AFC, co-owned by Canadian actor and Vancouver native Ryan Reynolds, is set to play Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps on July 27 at BC Place Stadium. It will be the last of Wrexham AFC's three North American matches this summer as part of their 2024 Wrex Coast Tour. Preceding the Vancouver vi...

The Toronto Maple Leafs fell behind in their first-round series again without star winger William Nylander on Wednesday, and Thursday's schedule presents two teams in need of a win. Here are five things to know heading into Thursday's post-season action: WHERE'S NYLANDER? Nylander missed a third straight game to open ...

EDMONTON - Anze Kopitar scored the overtime winner and had a pair of assists as the Los Angeles Kings knocked off the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 to tie their opening-round playoff series 1-1 on Wednesday. Kopitar scored just 2:07 into overtime after a weird bounce gave him a lane up the centre of the ice and he beat Stuart Sk...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 33 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the New Orleans Pelicans 124-92 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round Western Conference playoff series. Chet Holmgren had 26 points and seven rebounds and Jalen Williams added 21 points for th...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Alec Marsh and four relievers combined for a six-hitter as the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 Wednesday night. Maikel Garcia and Salvador Perez each had two hits and an RBI for Kansas City, which bounced back from a loss in the series opener on Monday to win two straight. John...

OTTAWA - Katerina Mrazova scored the shootout winner Wednesday night to lead Ottawa to a 3-2 win over Boston in Professional Women's Hockey League action. Both teams are vying for the fourth and final playoff spot. Ottawa, now with 32 points, gained a three-point lead over Boston in addition to having a game in hand. T...

BOSTON (AP) - The Miami Heat beat Boston with an unprecedented barrage of 3-pointers on Wednesday night to erase the home-court advantage the Celtics worked all season to establish. Tyler Herro had 24 points and 14 assists, hitting six of Miami's 23 3-pointers - the most in a playoff game in franchise history - to lead...

TORONTO - Brad Marchand scored twice, including the winner in the third period, and added an assist as the Boston Bruins downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 to take a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series Wednesday. Jake DeBrusk and Trent Frederic had the other goals for Boston. The Bruins got 28 stops from Jere...

MONTREAL - Kristin O'Neill had a goal and an assist in helping lead Montreal to a 5-2 win over New York and clinch a playoff berth in the Professional Women's Hockey League on Wednesday. The victory moved Montreal (9-3-5-5) into a tie for first place with Toronto. Each team has 38 points, with Montreal having a game in...

Toronto FC put semi-pro Simcoe County Rovers FC to the sword Wednesday, thumping the League1 Ontario champions 5-0 in Canadian Championship preliminary-round play. Prince Owusu, Cassius Mailula, Kevin Long, Jonathan Osorio and Tyrese Spicer scored for Toronto, which led 4-0 at the break with three of the goals coming ...

WINNIPEG - Rick Bowness always goes to bed with hockey looping in his mind, but Tuesday night's thoughts weren't all bad for the Winnipeg Jets head coach. Despite the Jets losing 5-2 to the Colorado Avalanche Tuesday in a Game 2 that evened their first-round playoff series at 1-1, Bowness saw improvements in his team's...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Toronto Blue Jays have placed centre fielder Kevin Kiermaier on the 10-day injured list with a left hip injury. Kiermaier left Toronto's game at Kansas City on Tuesday in the sixth inning. He has struggled early in his second season in Toronto with a .193 batting average through 22 games. In a co...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Coach Xavi Hernández will stay with Barcelona for another year after all, agreeing to finish his contract to 2025 in a reversal of his decision to quit at the end of the season, two people with knowledge of the agreement said Wednesday. The two people spoke anonymously to The Associated P...

MADRID - Canada's Denis Shapovalov advanced to the second round of the Madrid Open tennis tournament with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Argentina's Facundo Diaz Acosta on Wednesday. Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., overcame struggles with accuracy on his serve to win the match at the Masters event in just under one hou...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Tony DeAngelo found himself playing a reduced role in his second stint with the Carolina Hurricanes amid a deep roster of defensemen. He could be headed for a larger role in the NHL playoffs with veteran Brett Pesce sidelined by injury. DeAngelo worked in a pairing with Brady Skjei during practice ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The San Jose Sharks have fired coach David Quinn after two rough seasons as part of a massive rebuilding project. General manager Mike Grier announced the decision on Wednesday following a review of the team's season. "After going through our end of the season process of internal meetings a...

NFL draft guru Daniel Jeremiah is a big fan of Canadian Tanner McLachlan. The six-foot-five, 244-pound Lethbridge, Alta., native had a record-setting tenure at Arizona, surpassing Rob Gronkowski for most career receptions by a tight end (79). Jeremiah, a former NFL scout now with NFL Network, ranks McLachlan second am...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has awarded the organization that manages Montreal's Olympic Stadium up to $40 million to pay for repairs and decontamination after a March 21 fire. Parc olympique spokesman Cédric Essiminy says extensive decontamination work is needed in the stadium's tower because smoke spread ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - In the moment, The Save kept the game tied. By night's end, it became a game-saver since Florida went on to prevail in overtime. And the way Panthers coach Paul Maurice sees it, the impact from Sergei Bobrovsky's moment on Tuesday night will only continue - with a reach beyond these NHL pla...