Diana Matheson (L) takes on Kate Markgraf in the 2008 Olympics. Matheson hopes for a better result in London.

After finishing second at January's Olympic qualification tournament, midfielder Diana Matheson and the rest of the Canadian women's soccer team are gearing up for the London Games this summer. Their most recent test was a friendly against China in Moncton last week, which Canada won 1-0 in stoppage time when Matheson set up Christine Sinclair for a late finish. The team's back in Vancouver now and training hard, but they've also taken the time to promote important causes, including a stop in Toronto with the Because I Am A Girl initiative last Friday to train with a local girls' team, raise awareness of girls' rights' issues around the world and raise money for a girls' soccer program in Colombia. On Wednesday, Matheson took time to talk about Canada's Olympic preparations, why the team's gotten involved in the Because I Am A Girl movement and the state of women's soccer around the world.

Matheson said the China match wasn't a perfect showing for the Canadians, but there were promising signs, and the late goal allowed them to come away from it with a positive feeling.

"We were definitely happy to get the result," she said.

Fans celebrate Canada's win in sudden death overtime to take the gold medal game against the USA at the IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship in Burlington, Vermont

After a 9-2 loss to the U.S. Women's National Team to open the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship in Burlington, Vt., it seemed like head coach Dan Church was on thin ice with Hockey Canada. That was, of course, until the Canadian Women's National Team stormed back to claim their first gold medal at the tournament since 2007.

On Wednesday, Hockey Canada announced that Church, head coach of the York University women's team, will remain at the helm through 2014. Church will have the chance to lead his squad as they defend their 2012 IIHF title in Ottawa in 2013 and look to win their fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

In addition to Church, Hockey Canada also announced that Danielle Goyette, a former national team player, will retain her position as assistant coach. Goyette recently lead the University of Calgary women's team to their first ever CIS national championship. The remainder of the coaching staff is expected to be announced at a

Just like in 2004, Darryl Sutter is in the Stanley Cup final after upsetting all three division champions.

Darryl Sutter knows a thing or two about pulling off big upsets in the NHL playoffs.

The Los Angeles Kings coach is one win away from the Stanley Cup after his eighth-place team eliminated the top three seeds in the Western Conference — the Presidents' Trophy-winning Vancouver Canucks, the No. 2 St. Louis Blues and the Phoenix Coyotes, the third seed as the Pacific Division winners. But the Kings are not the first team in NHL history to accomplish the feat, as reported by the league and repeated by media outlets.

From NHL.com on May 18, 2012:

"The Los Angeles Kings have a chance to lock up their first trip to the Final since 1993 by beating the Phoenix Coyotes in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals before what's sure to be a raucous sellout crowd at the Staples Center. The Kings' 2-1 win in Game 3 gave them the opportunity to complete a second straight series sweep and become the first team ever to beat the first, second and third seeds in the conference on the way to the Final."

Dylan Armstrong will be competing at the trials at the end of the month.Fans getting set to cheer on their favourite Canadian athletes at the summer Olympics in London will have the opportunity to shoot their country's track stars words of encouragement — albeit in only 140 characters — leading up to the games.

Athletics Canada announced Tuesday that Canadian athletes competing in the track and field trials from June 27-30 in Calgary, Alberta will feature their personal Twitter handles on their competition bibs.

Director of public relations for Athletics Canada, Mathieu Gentes told the Globe and Mail Tuesday:

"We need to find new and innovative ways to promote our sport and our athletes. Twitter has become a very powerful tool and will only continue to grow. A fan or casual observer can catch a glimpse on television, or a picture or an article and immediately go to Twitter and begin following and interacting with the athlete. That's powerful stuff."

Gentes isn't wrong: Twitter gives fans the opportunity for instant interaction with athletes that, prior to

The first Canadian is off the board at the 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft. However, it wasn't left-hander Ryan Kellogg, who was widely considered the top Canadian prospect this year, but rather third basemen Eric Wood, who went 196th overall to the Pittsburgh Pirates.Brett Lawrie is the latest Canadian to make a name for himself in the MLB.

Wood, 19, hails from Oshawa, Ont., and attended Blinn College in Texas where he had a team-high 39 RBIs to go along with a .318 batting average and four home runs in 173 at-bats this season. A Pickering High School alum, he was a 37th-round selection of the Oakland Athletics last year, but didn't sign with the A's.

While Wood wasn't even listed in Baseball America's top 500, Kellogg was ranked No. 203, but had to wait until pick No. 385 to be selected. But if you ask Kellogg, it was probably worth the wait because it was his hometown Blue Jays who came calling. At 6-foot-6 and 217 pounds, Kellogg, 18, of nearby Whitby, Ontario, is a highly regarded high school arm, although some teams may have been wary after he signed

TSN soccer analysts Jason deVos (L) and Darren Anderton prepare for Tuesday's call.

Friday marks the start of soccer's famed quadrennial European championships, and all the Euro 2012 action from Poland and the Ukraine will be broadcast live on TSN (26 games), TSN2 (four games) and CTV (one game) from June 8 to July 1. In addition to the games, TSN will have pre- and post-game coverage and a nightly wrap-up show led by current analysts Luke Wileman and Jason deVos and new hire Darren Anderton, who spent 12 years with Tottenham Hotspur and earned 30 caps for the English national team. Wileman, deVos and Anderton joined a conference call Tuesday to discuss the tournament and why Canadians should care about it, and they had some interesting things to say.

Anderton's hire is an interesting one, as most English players probably don't see Canada as a natural market to explore soccer from the broadcasting side. He said he's thrilled to get the chance to work with TSN on this tournament, though, and he's always had a soft spot for Canada.

"I was here as a 10-year-old," he said. "It was a lovely opportunity to come back to Toronto."

Some foreign analysts tend to dumb things down when working in markets where soccer's less prominent, but Anderton said he won't approach this any differently than he would if broadcasting in England.

"I don't think so, no," he said. "It's the same sort of thing."

The Toronto Blue Jays scouting and management staff have made their mark on the first round of 2012 Major League Baseball draft selecting outfielder D.J. Davis out of Stone County HS (Miss) 17th overall and right-handed pitcher Marcus Stroman out of Duke 22nd overall.The Jays had two picks in the first round.

The six foot 175-pound Davis is considered to be one of the fastest players in the draft and is strong defensively in centre field. The left-handed batter's draft stock rose after an improvement at the plate and his type of athleticism is something Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said he wanted to address in the 2012 draft.

Anthopoulos told Sportsnet 590 the FAN Monday morning:

"Generally speaking I think [we want to put] an even greater emphasis on athletes … Makeup as well.  I know everyone talks about it and it's not so much well is this a good kid would you have them marry your daughter? It's baseball makeup, championship makeup, really a burning desire to be great and sometimes you have a little bit of I don't

Athan Iannucci, mid dip-and-diveWe've got an early candidate for the goal of the year, and it didn't come off the stick of Anze Kopitar, either.

On Wednesday night in Langley, B.C., Athan Iannucci scored what's bound to be one of the most talked-about lacrosse goals of the year, if not all time; a one-handed catch-deke-dive-and-tuck that defies belief until you actually see it.