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Researchers at the University of Washington believe the inspiration for the NFL’s team logo, which consists of a profile of a raptor, is a transformation mask from the Kwakwakaʼwakw of northern Vancouver Island. Source link

Snowboard cross racer Éliot Grondin climbed the podium of a World Cup event on Saturday in Dongbeiya, China. Source link

Canada’s Victoria Mboko fell in straight sets to Russia’s Mirra Andreeva in the final of the Adelaide International women’s tennis final on Saturday. Source link

Kendall Coyne Schofield scored in overtime off a nice assist by Taylor Heise and the Minnesota Frost beat the New York Sirens 3-2 on Friday night in Newark, N.J. Source link

Mark McMorris and Laurie Blouin are among the six athletes that have been named to Canada’s Olympic snowboard slopestyle and big air team Source link

Blue Jays homegrown star Bo Bichette is leaving Toronto for the New York Mets, according to media reports. The Associated Press and ESPN report the deal is for $126 million US over three years. Source link

Olympic ice dance champion Gabriella Papadakis says she lost her commentary role with NBC at the upcoming Winter Olympics because of her former skating partner’s response to revelations in her new book. Source link

Canadian Para skier Alexis Guimond won gold in the men’s standing super-G race at a World Cup stop Friday in Saalbach, Austria. Source link

This coming weekend, Canada’s bobsleigh team will compete in Altenberg, Germany for its last chance to qualify a sled at the Milano Cortina Olympics beginning Feb. 6. Kelsey Mitchell, an Olympic track cycling champion who made the switch to bobsleigh in recent months, is hoping it will be her ticket to Milano Cortina. Source link

Giovanni Franzoni claimed his first World Cup victory on the famed Lauberhorn course in a super-G Friday — four months after his close friend and former roommate, Matteo Franzoso, died in a crash during preseason training in Chile. Source link