• The Canadian Press

    'We're here to win': New MLSE president backs Shanahan, Treliving

    TORONTO — The Maple Leafs' key decision makers spoke with the media today for the first time since the team's first-round playoff exit. The message was clear — everything is on the table moving forward, and past results are unacceptable. New Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment president Keith Pelley, team president Brendan Shanahan and general manager Brad Treliving fielded questions from reporters for roughly 45 minutes on the path forward for an organization that has fallen painfully short of e

  • The Canadian Press

    B.C. light-heavyweight boxer Buneet Bisla goes after Canadian title on Victoria card

    Since taking up taekwondo at the age of four, Buneet Bisla has won an armful of armful of amateur boxing and kickboxing titles. On Saturday, the 26-year-old from Surrey, B.C., looks to add to that collection when he faces Manitoba's Devin Tomko in Victoria for the vacant Canadian light-heavyweight boxing title. The two meet in the main event of Champ Promotions' "Round 4" card at G.R. Pearkes Recreation Centre. "The hard work's been done," said Bisla. "Six week of a gruelling camp." Bisla (9-1-0

  • The Canadian Press

    Two-time Super Bowl winner Chris Snee returning to New York Giants as a scout

    EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Two-time Super Bowl winner Chris Snee is returning to the New York Giants as a senior scout in the personnel department. General manager Joe Schoen announced the hiring Friday, along along with two promotions. Nick La Testa moved from pro scout to assistant director of pro scouting and Charles Tisch went from a football operations assistant to the manager of football administration. Snee, a guard who was a four-time Pro Bowl pick and a member of the franchise’s Ring

  • The Canadian Press

    Pochettino at ease about Chelsea job status. Not 'end of the world' if he leaves

    LONDON (AP) — Mauricio Pochettino says it's “not going to be the end of the world” if he's not back at Stamford Bridge next season. The first-year manager of seventh-placed Chelsea added that it's not just club chairman Todd Boehly who will have the final say. “If we are happy, perfect, but it’s not only if the owners are happy or the sporting director is happy,” Pochettino said Friday at a news conference ahead of their English Premier League game at Nottingham Forest on Saturday. “You need to