• The Canadian Press

    Turnbull leads Toronto past Minnesota 4-0 in first-ever PWHL playoff game

    Toronto head coach Troy Ryan felt his team met its own expectations in its biggest game of the season to date. Blayre Turnbull scored twice to lead Toronto to a 4-0 win over Minnesota in the first-ever Professional Women's Hockey League playoff game on Wednesday. Toronto played in front of 8,473 fans at Coca-Cola Coliseum, the team's new home for the playoffs after spending the regular season at Mattamy Athletic Centre. "It's what I believe I expect and I think what the group expects as well," R

  • The Canadian Press

    Toronto FC beats semi-pro side CS Saint-Laurent 3-0 in Canadian Championship

    MONTREAL — Nathan Goulet could hardly believe his eyes. The 22-year-old CS Saint-Laurent defender remembers watching Federico Bernardeschi play in the UEFA Champions League for elite Italian club Juventus a few years ago. On Wednesday night, they were face-to-face on the pitch, duelling in a 9,500-capacity stadium as Bernardeschi’s Toronto FC defeated the semi-pro Saint-Laurent 3-0 in the opening leg of their Canadian Championship quarterfinal. "To see them in front of us today was a bit of a dr

  • The Canadian Press

    Jalen Brunson sparks Knicks past Pacers for 2-0 lead in East semifinals

    NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson returned from a right foot injury to score 24 of his 29 points in the second half, leading the New York Knicks to a 130-121 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. On the anniversary of Willis Reed’s dramatic emergence from the locker room before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to lead the Knicks to their first title, Brunson sent the Madison Square Garden crowd into a frenzy when he came out to warm up a

  • The Canadian Press

    Jalen Brunson returns from foot injury, sparks Knicks past Pacers for 2-0 lead in East semifinals

    NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson returned from a right foot injury to score 24 of his 29 points in the second half, leading the New York Knicks to a 130-121 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. On the anniversary of Willis Reed's dramatic emergence from the locker room before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to lead the Knicks to their first title, Brunson sent the Madison Square Garden crowd into a frenzy when he came out to warm up a