• The Canadian Press

    AC Milan coach Pioli leaving at the end of the season, 2 years after leading club to Serie A title

    MILAN, Italy (AP) — AC Milan coach Stefano Pioli is leaving the Italian club at the end of the season after a near five-year stint that included the 2022 Serie A title.

  • The Canadian Press

    Chris Evert thinks Iga Swiatek could surpass her record of 7 French Open titles

    PARIS (AP) — No less an authority on clay-court tennis than Chris Evert thinks her record of seven French Open championships could be surpassed by Iga Swiatek. “Absolutely,” Evert, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, said in a phone interview. “Iga is a player on a mission. She’s more focused. She doesn’t get upset at all when she’s losing. She just has all the ingredients to be a champion. She really does. She checks all the boxes — the intangibles and the tangibles.” Swiatek has

  • The Canadian Press

    Fueled by postseason failures, Phillies riding high with best record in baseball

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Phillies are winning games at such a torrid pace, you have to stretch to the halcyon days of when Grover was a hip name in America to find anything like what Philly’s favorite team has already achieved this season. Take ace lefty Ranger Suárez. The 28-year-old Suárez is 9-0 with a 1.36 ERA, the third-lowest ERA by a Phillies pitcher in his first 10 starts of a season. Suárez trails only, yup, Hall of Famer Grover Cleveland Alexander, who had a 1.24 ERA in first 10 starts

  • The Canadian Press

    France's all-time leading scorer Olivier Giroud plans to end international career after Euro

    PARIS (AP) — France's all-time leading scorer Olivier Giroud says he plans to end his international career after the European Championship next month. The 37-year-old forward has scored 57 goals in 131 matches for France. He was part of the France squad that won the 2018 World Cup and has been selected to play at the Euros. “To be honest, this will be my last competition with Les Bleus. Obviously, I’m going to miss it a lot,” Giroud told L’Equipe in an interview published late Thursday. ”We need