• The Canadian Press

    How to watch and what to expect in the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs

    The chase for the Stanley Cup is back underway, with the NHL's top 16 teams left to duke it out through four gruelling rounds. It's also arguably the most wide open the post-season has been in years, if not decades. Nearly everyone who qualified has a chance to win it all, with no prohibitive favourite as the first round begins on Saturday: The matchups In the East: The New York Rangers vs. the Washington Capitals; the Carolina Hurricanes vs. the New York Islanders; the Boston Bruins vs. the Tor

  • The Canadian Press

    Olympic sports bodies criticize track and field's move to pay $50,000 for Paris gold medalists

    GENEVA (AP) — Olympic sports bodies criticized World Athletics on Friday for promising to pay $50,000 for each track and field gold medal won at the Paris Olympics. Last week's move by the track body and its president Sebastian Coe broke with tradition because the International Olympic Committee does not pay prize money, though many state governments and national Olympic bodies do. “For many, this move undermines the values of Olympism and the uniqueness of the games,” the Association of Summer

  • The Canadian Press

    Rivalries on tap with Barcelona-Chelsea and Lyon-PSG in Women's Champions League semifinals

    LONDON (AP) — Power struggles, intriguing matchups and fond farewells. The Women’s Champions League semifinals kicking off Saturday have a bit of everything. Two teams are trying to assert their continental dominance and the other two are fighting to be crowned European champion for the first time. Defending champion Barcelona hosts Chelsea in their first-leg match on Saturday afternoon before eight-time champion Lyon takes on French rival Paris Saint-Germain in the evening. The second legs are

  • The Canadian Press

    Kyrie Irving is healthy and drama-free in Dallas as a playoff pairing with Luka Doncic dawns

    DALLAS (AP) — Kyrie Irving is healthy and publicly free of drama, self-inflicted or otherwise, heading into his first playoff game with co-star Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks. The eight-time All-Star and 2016 NBA champion alongside LeBron James in Cleveland brought up on his own that he hasn't had a 50-win season in six years. A late-season surge that coincided with Irving's longest stretch of consecutive games since that title season pushed the Mavs to the 50-win mark, and fifth place in