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Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse is unruffled by the fact no team in NBA history has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a playoff series. "I think it's a heckuva challenge, and somebody's got to do it," Nurse said.

BARCELONA, Spain — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime fell to Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open.

Guy Lafleur had been passed the torch as the Montreal Canadiens' next great Quebec-born player.

TORONTO — Canada's women's basketball coach Victor Lapeña is joining the national program fulltime. Canada Basketball signed Lapeña earlier this year to a multi-year deal that will see him coach the team through the 2024 Paris Olympics.

CALGARY — The University of Calgary named former CFL player Jon Cornish as its 15th chancellor-elect Friday. The 37-year-old native of New Westminster, B.C., will begin his four-year term July 1.

Canada Soccer has announced its 13-player roster for the upcoming 2022 International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football (IFCPF) Men's World Cup in Salou Spain.

TORONTO — Back in early 2013, a 20-year-old Jonathan Osorio approached his first training camp with Toronto FC with plenty of self-imposed pressure. "I looked at it as my last chance, really.

Montreal Canadiens legend and Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur died at age 70.

VANCOUVER — A new-look Invictus Games is coming to Vancouver and Whistler, featuring winter adaptive sports for the first time. Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, announced Friday that the two B.C.

After a rocky start to the season that saw it bow out of the CONCACAF Champions League and start its Major League Soccer campaign with three consecutive losses, CF Montréal appears to have righted the ship.