• The Canadian Press

    German teams' success in Champions League disrupting Germany's Euro 2024 preparations

    BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s European Championship preparations are being disrupted by German teams’ success in the Champions League. The Champions League final could see old rivals Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich meet for a repeat of the 2013 decider – if Bayern beats Real Madrid in the second leg of their semifinal on Wednesday. Even a Bayern defeat would leave Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann without Madrid players Toni Kroos and Antonio Rüdiger for his team’s Euro 2024 training camp from May 2

  • The Canadian Press

    'Enjoy your vacation.' Borussia Dortmund makes fun of PSG after reaching Champions League final

    PARIS (AP) — After beating Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, Borussia Dortmund got the better of the French club on social media as well. Dortmund celebrated Tuesday's semifinal win by rubbing a bit of salt in PSG's wounds with a tongue-in-cheek message posted on social networks on Wednesday. The German team posted an image of a hot air balloon in Dortmund's yellow-and-black colors flying over a beach where a PSG towel is spread out on the sand. Written across the image was the French

  • The Canadian Press

    Five things to know about the NHL playoffs

    The Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers are set to clash on Wednesday after a two-game slate on Tuesday that saw an overtime and double overtime game. Here are five things to know entering Wednesday’s post-season action: ALL-CANADIAN SERIES Vancouver will host Edmonton for Game 1 of their second-round series. The all-Canadian series guarantees that a Canadian team will be in the Western Conference finals this season. A Canadian team hasn't won a Stanley Cup since the Montreal Canadiens did so

  • The Canadian Press

    Avalanche got legs under them in another comeback to beat fading Stars in 2nd-round opener

    DALLAS (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche had gone a full week since wrapping up their first-round series, and were down three goals in the first period on the road against the top seed. But once league MVP finalist Nathan MacKinnon and the Avs started getting back into the flow of things Tuesday night, the Dallas Stars seemed to suddenly get hit by the fatigue from closing out their tough opening Western Conference series with a Game 7 win just two nights earlier. "Was definitely tough taking a week