The first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs features a rematch from the 2021 Stanley Cup Final. Odd as it might be to recall, a pandemic-impacted, 56-game season concluded with the defending-champion Tampa Bay Lightning downing the Montreal Canadiens — the worst team, by record, to make the 2021 playoffs — in five games …
The Saskatchewan Roughriders released Ajou Ajou after the CFL suspended the receiver for at least six games for violating the league’s gender-based violence and harassment policy The league said Thursday in a statement that it was made aware of multiple allegations in late January and immediately initiated a third-party investigation, which included interviews with Ajou, …
Bowness, the club’s head coach, will sign an extension with the team that is expected to be announced when he and general manager Don Waddell meet with the media for the end-of-season availability at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT on Thursday, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. The decision comes less than 48 hours after …
For the two clubs on either side of Pennsylvania, it’s been a rough few years. The Pittsburgh Penguins have waded through three seasons without playoff hockey. For the Philadelphia Flyers, it’s been a half-decade. But here, in 2026, the longtime rivals have made it back, have clawed their way to the post-season spotlight once more, …
Morgan Rielly knows his days in Toronto may be numbered, and it’s not the first time he’s thought like this. The Maple Leafs defenceman has a full no-movement clause on the eight-year, $60-million deal he signed back in 2021, and he’s under contract through the 2029-30 season. Still, he knows he may be approached about …
It’s not often that a fighter who’s described as the best striker at their gym or as creative in the cage as Jon Jones gets a nickname as conventionally unflattering as “Rat Garbage.” Yet it’s fitting, considering nothing about Mandel Nallo’s winding journey in mixed martial arts has followed a standard path. From hiding ankle …
For the first time in his NHL career, Alex Ovechkin doesn’t have a clear next step. After a season that sees the Washington Capitals and the NHL’s all-time leading goalscorer at a crossroads, Ovechkin isn’t ready to give a definitive answer on his playing future. “I don’t know,” Ovechkin said when asked during the Capitals’ …
This week’s second legs of the quarterfinals separated the wheat from the chaff in the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League. We’re now down to four teams is club soccer’s most prestigious competition, with all four teams having an equal chance of hoisting the European Champion Clubs’ Cup. Real Madrid won three consecutive titles from 2016-18, but …
Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo lost 6-1, 6-2 to Germany’s Alexander Zverev in the round of 16 at the BMW Open on Thursday. The top-seeded Zverev, the defending champion playing at home on clay, converted 5 of 8 break points in the one-hour, 13-minute match. Diallo won just 55 per cent of first-serve points and 32 per …
Through his play and hockey path, Daxon Rudolph keeps developing connections with a growing number of NHL players. Less than two months away from almost certainly hearing his name called on the first night of the NHL Draft, the Prince Albert Raiders’ star defenceman is doing everything in his power to climb the board during …