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As the NBA playoffs approach, CBC Sports’ daily newsletter gets you up to speed on some angles for Canadian fans to follow. Source link

Watch Northern United and the Typhoon Curling Club go head-to-head in Rock League action from the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto. Source link

Calgary referee Drew Fischer will work the FIFA World Cup after being named Thursday to the tournament’s list of match officials, joining another Albertan. Source link

The best way for the Edmonton Oilers to shake off a tough loss was to let Connor McDavid take over the game. One night after his team squandered three separate leads in an overtime defeat at Utah, McDavid delivered the kind of performance Edmonton needed. Source link

Watch the Frontier Curling Club and the Shield Curling Club go head-to-head in Rock League action from the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto. Source link

The Charge, who have now lost three straight, had the chance to climb into the fourth and final playoff spot in the PWHL standings, but fell 5-3 to the last-place Seattle Torrent on Wednesday. Seattle was playing the second game of a back-to-back set. Source link

The Halifax native set a world record as a 13-year-old in the 200-metre backstroke on April 27, 1975, at the Eastern Canadian Swimming Championships in Brantford, Ont., while a member of the Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club. Source link

With his team’s offence mired in a rut, Blue Jays manager John Schneider was hoping a big swing or two would help kickstart his sputtering club. Source link

In Scotland, where both golf and curling originated around the 16th century, the sports go hand in hand — and similarities from strategy to sportsmanship to tradition abound. Source link

The Goldeneyes capped off a five-game road trip with a 5-1 loss to Boston on Tuesday. It was the team’s fourth loss in five games. Source link