• The Canadian Press

    Sixers owners buy 2,000 tickets for home playoff game, aiming for fewer Knicks fans in arena

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bradley Cooper rocked a Dr. J jacket from his courtside seat at Game 6. The A-list actor had a few more 76ers fans join him Thursday night for Philadelphia's playoff game against New York — about 2,000 more courtesy of ticket giveaways from Sixers ownership. The Sixers' strategy heading into Game 6 of their Eastern Conference first-round series was to keep Knicks fans out of Wells Fargo Center on Thursday night. Team owners Josh Harris, David Blitzer and David Adelman and for

  • The Canadian Press

    OSIC, Abuse Free Sport to be taken over by Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport

    The Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner and its Abuse-Free Sports Program will be absorbed by the Canadian Centre For Ethics in Sport by next year. OSIC was created in 2022 as a division of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada amid a wave of complaints about abuse and harassment in Canadian sport. OSIC's job was to administer the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS). Decoupling OSIC from the SDRCC "to ensure greater independence" was amon

  • The Canadian Press

    Pacers celebrate 1st playoff series victory in a decade, beating Bucks 120-98 in Game 6

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Obi Toppin scored 21 points, T.J. McConnell had 20 points and nine assists and the Indiana Pacers won a playoff series for the first time in a decade, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 120-98 in Game 6 on Thursday night. The Pacers will face the winner of the Philadelphia-New York series in the Eastern Conference semifinals. New York took a 3-2 lead into Game 6 later Thursday. Indiana's milestone victory came exactly 30 years after it swept Orlando 3-0 to advance in the NBA playoff

  • The Canadian Press

    Quebec semi-pro side CS Saint-Laurent upsets Halifax in Canadian Championship play

    HALIFAX — Ligue1 Quebec champion CS Saint-Laurent upset Halifax Wanderers FC 5-3 in a penalty shootout Thursday to earn a quarterfinal date with Toronto FC in the Canadian Championship. After Saint-Laurent 'keeper Konstantinos Maniatis stopped Christian Volesky's penalty, Mouhamadou Kane stepped up and beat Yann Fillion for the shootout win. It marks the second straight year a semi-pro side has dispatched a pro team from the Canadian Premier League in the cup competition. TSS Rovers, based in Ri