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Veteran Brennsteiner gets 1st World Cup win
At age 34 and in his 81st World Cup across 14 seasons, Stefan Brennsteiner finally got his first win on Friday. Source link
Homan survives Black's last-rock attempt to take Game 1 of women's Olympic curling trial final
Rachel Homan’s Ottawa-based team held on for a 5-4 victory over Christina Black’s hometown side in the opener of the best-of-three Olympic curling trial final in Halifax. Source link
Moh Ahmed 'will command a lot of respect' in Saturday return to Canadian cross-country race
Olympian Moh Ahmed is leaving track running, for a day, and returning to the Canadian cross-country championships for the first time in 13 years on Saturday in the open men’s 10-kilometre race in London, Ont. Source link
Watch the PWHL: Boston Fleet vs. Toronto Sceptres
Watch live coverage of the PWHL match between the Boston Fleet and Toronto Sceptres beginning on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET from the Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto. Source link
Iran boycotting World Cup draw citing visa restrictions for soccer officials
Iran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington next week because the U.S. denied visas to members of its delegation, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday. Source link
Canada's Buchanan to help fund female soccer players in single-parent families with FIFA's help
Chelsea’s Canadian defender Kadeisha Buchanan knows what it feels like to dream big while living with limited means having grown up around Toronto as the youngest of seven daughters to a single mother, moving from house-to-house. Buchanan is now launching a foundation for girls in single-parent homes to help fund their soccer goals. Source link
'A nightmare': Champion sprinter Bruny Surin shocked by McGill's athletics cuts
Bruny Surin thought it was a hoax. McGill University’s historic track and field program is a fixture in Canada’s amateur sports landscape so when word flashed across Surin’s phone that the school was scrapping it after 125 years, the Olympic champion sprinter didn’t buy it. Source link
After a season-ending injury took her off the ice, Emerance Maschmeyer is back in blue
PWHL action returns to CBC on Saturday with the Toronto Sceptres hosting the Boston Fleet at 2 p.m. ET. You can watch the game on CBC TV or CBC Gem. Source link
The Blue Jays' big free-agent pickup is a strikeout machine
CBC Sports’ daily newsletter examines newly acquired pitcher Dylan Cease, who has struck out, and walked, more batters than anyone else in baseball over the last six years. Source link
Marco Odermatt wins season-opening super-G in Colorado, denying Austria podium sweep
Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt started the World Cup super-G season with a Thanksgiving win at Copper Mountain on Thursday, while Aleksander Aamodt Kilde reduced fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin to tears by making his comeback after nearly two years out. Source link