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William Brown and the Newfoundland Rogues are headed for Ontario to face the Kitchener-Waterloo Titans in the opening round of The Basketball Super League (BSL) playoffs. The series starts on May 3. Photo courtesy Leona Rockwood/Newfoundland Rogues

Newfoundland Rogues will clash with Titans in BSL playoff opener

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read Premium content

The Newfoundland Rogues are going to have a clash on their hands in the first round of the Basketball Super League (BSL) playoffs.  The Rogues are set to face the Kitchener-Waterloo Titans in their opening-round matchup.  This is after Newfoundland ...

Conception Bay South’s Brandon Joy recently won a gold medal with the Canadian blind national hockey team at the 2024 International Blind Hockey Series held Apr. 12-14 in St. Louis, MO. Nicholas Mercer/The Telegram

‘It was pretty crazy’: Conception Bay South’s Brandon Joy wins gold with Canada’s blind hockey team

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read Premium content

The work that went into making Canada’s blind national hockey team started a little over two years ago for Brandon Joy.  The 21-year-old from Conception Bay South had been in the player pool for the last little bit but could never crack the ...

Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe.

Keefe on approach for Maple Leafs for Game 6: 'We don't have to (try to) impress anyone'

Terry Koshan · Postmedia News |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

Ah, the comforts of home. Don’t get Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe wrong — he loves the support his team gets from Leafs Nation, whether it’s at Scotiabank Arena or in buildings across the National Hockey League. For another elimination game, ...

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is changing its name to the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League, the league announced during a press conference on Thursday afternoon. Shown is the new English logo for the league. CONTRIBUTED/QMJHL

QMJHL Playoffs: No suspensions from Game 4 of Cape Breton, Baie-Comeau series in Sydney

SaltWire Network |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. – No suspensions will be handed out by the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League following Game 4 of the semifinal series between the Cape Breton Eagles and Baie-Comeau Drakkar at Centre 200 in Sydney. Five players received five-minute ...

Football - NFL - Super Bowl LVIII - Kansas City Chiefs v San Francisco 49ers - Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - February 11, 2024 Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce before the game

Chiefs TE Travis Kelce 'extremely grateful' for new deal

Reuters |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce wanted more money but was not interested in executing a leverage play as a means to get it. Kelce, as it turns out, got what he wanted as the Chiefs reworked his contract, pumping up his salary to $34.25 ...

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MLB suspends Brewers' Abner Uribe, Freddy Peralta, Rays' Jose Siri

Reuters |Updated 5 hours ago |1 min read

Milwaukee Brewers pitchers Abner Uribe and Freddy Peralta were suspended six and five games, respectively, for their roles in Tuesday's benches-clearing incident against Tampa Bay, Major League Baseball announced. MLB also announced Wednesday that ...

Jul 7, 2021; Tampa, Florida, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos (91) hoists the Stanley Cup after the 1-0 victory against the Montreal Canadiens in game five of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final at Amalie Arena. Mandatory Credit: Bruce Bennett/Pool Photo-USA TODAY Sports

Steven Stamkos covets return to Tampa Bay for 17th season

Reuters |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read

Steven Stamkos has spent all 16 of his NHL seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning and he's highly interested in continuing the relationship. Stamkos, 34, is slated to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. But he said he had a preliminary ...

Lorenzo Callegari of the Halifax Wanderers (right) battles with Manny Aparicio of Atletico Ottawa early into a Canadian Premier League match Saturday afternoon at the Wanderers Grounds. - CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

TELUS CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP: Winless Wanderers switch focus to CS St-Laurent

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 5 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

After a struggling start to their Canadian Premier League season, the Halifax Wanderers could use a reprieve. But head coach Patrice Gheisar warns that Thursday night’s Telus Canadian Championship preliminary-round matchup against Ligue1 Quebec side ...

Small toy figures with laptops and smartphones are seen in front of displayed Comcast logo, in this illustration taken December 5, 2021.

Comcast pulls Bally Sports channels, imperiling US broadcaster's restructuring

Dietrich Knauth |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cable provider Comcast stopped broadcasting Bally Sports channels on Wednesday, taking some MLB games off the air and imperiling the bankruptcy restructuring of the sports channels' operating company. ...

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Doping-USADA slams WADA for 'half-truths' in China doping case

Reuters |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday for "doubling down on half-truths", after the global body published a document outlining its handling of a case ...

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