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CALGARY — The Flames made progress on and off the ice in a challenging season, says head coach Darryl Sutter. "Our goal was to be a playoff team and we did that," Sutter said Wednesday at the Saddledome.

After two decades on the Pro Squash Association tour, Shawn Delierre's career plan took a detour at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

HAMILTON — As a kicker and undrafted free agent, Canadian Michael Domagala is used to having to put his best foot forward with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. So it will be business as usual for the five-foot-nine, 202-pound St. Catharines, Ont.

TORONTO — The CFL appointed Scott Banda as its board chairman Wednesday. Banda takes over from Dale Lastman, who assumed the role in 2019 but in February recommended the league find his replacement. Banda becomes the 40th board chairman.

It's not quite a sigh of relief, but Blair Bursey is very pleased to have the PGA Tour Canada back. Bursey, from Gander, N.L., is one of 37 Canadians in the field at this week's Royal Beach Victoria Open, the first PGA Tour Canada event since 2019.

Milan Borjan, Kadeisha Buchanan and Samuel Charron have been named Canada Soccer’s top players for the month for May. Borjan, a goalkeeper from Hamilton, helped Red Star Belgrade clinch a fifth Serbian league title in a row.

MONTREAL — After weeks of anticipation following the Montreal Canadiens’ last-place finish, the interim tag is off and the man behind the bench is finally here to stay. Martin St.

Dick Pound held almost every International Olympic Committee job there was except president during his 44 years as a member.

Canadian television broadcaster Chris Cuthbert suggested they raised the speed limit for the Western Conference final series as it took less than six minutes for the high-flying offences to produce two goals and a number of near misses on the startin

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders had to wait an extra week to make their CFL pre-season debut so they weren’t about to let a 25-16 defeat at the hands of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ruin their day.