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Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season after a knee-on-knee hit from Anaheim’s Radko Gudas, with Matthews’ agent calling the five-game suspension “laughable and preposterous” while teammates faced criticism for failing to defend their captain as he…

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander broke Wilt Chamberlain’s 63-year-old NBA record on Thursday by scoring 20 points for the 127th consecutive game, converting a 20-foot jumper against Boston in the third quarter to surpass Chamberlain’s mark of 126 straight 20-point games that had stood since January 1963, finishing with 35 points and nine assists in Oklahoma City’s 104-102…

Canada defeated Cuba 7-2 on Wednesday to advance past pool play at the World Baseball Classic for the first time in program history after 20 years and five previous tournament heartbreaks, with Cal Quantrill dominating for five innings and Otto Lopez delivering a two-run single in the sixth to secure Pool A and set up…

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points on Tuesday night in Miami’s 150-129 win over Washington, setting NBA records for free throws made and attempted in a game while claiming sole possession of second place on the league’s all-time single-game scoring list behind only Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, finishing with 31 points in the first quarter, 43…

Five members of the Iranian women’s football team were granted humanitarian visas in Australia early Tuesday morning, with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirming the visas at 1:30am and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese offering assistance to other players saying help is here as the team remained in a Gold Coast hotel after their final Women’s…

Matt Dunstone captured his first Brier championship on Sunday night with a 6-3 victory over Kevin Koe’s Team Alberta in St. John’s, finally breaking through after losing three consecutive finals including the 2023 and 2025 Brier and Canada’s Olympic Trials last November as the 30-year-old Winnipeg skip dropped to his knees in tears saying the…

George Russell won the Australian Grand Prix from pole position with teammate Kimi Antonelli finishing second, securing a commanding Mercedes one-two finish in the Formula One season opener in Melbourne on Sunday as Russell took complete control from the front of the grid in a dominant performance that puts the rest of the grid on…

George Russell and Kimi Antonelli locked out the front row for Mercedes at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, with Russell claiming pole position with a dominant 1:18.518 lap while Max Verstappen crashed out, delivering what the team called a bluntly emphatic stamp of complete authority that made it impossible to deny Mercedes are…

Morning Hustle : Your Daily Sports Fix “Honouring hustle and heart.” Good morning. The NHL trade deadline is hours away, and Thursday delivered exactly what you’d expect: chaos, collapses, and GMs scrambling to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, some teams are stuck in neutral, and one legend is admitting he completely lost himself. Let’s…

Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving made late scratches of Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Scott Laughton, and Bobby McMann ahead of Wednesday’s loss to New Jersey, moves that came hours after coach Craig Berube said no players would sit for roster reasons, while the trade market moved without Toronto as Edmonton and Calgary completed deals with other…