Edmonton Sports News

An Ottawa man nationally recognized last year for training hundreds of other badminton coaches is being mourned by his colleagues after he was shot to death Friday night.

The Vancouver Canucks mounted a third-period comeback to take Game 1 of their best-of-seven series against the Nashville Predators 4-2, thanks to two goals from forward Dakota Joshua.

Captain Adam Lowry and Kyle Connor each scored twice to propel the Winnipeg Jets to a 7-6 Game 1 first-round playoff victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.

With four Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs for the first time in 30 years, fans hope those odds mean the Stanley Cup could be coming north again.

Jets fans came out in droves to show support for their team as they open their playoff campaign.

Nelly Korda etched her name in the LPGA Tour record books Sunday, winning her record-tying fifth straight tournament with a two-stroke victory in the Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, for her second major title.

Nikola Jokić is one step closer to winning a third MVP award in the last four seasons. Victor Wembanyama is surely on his way to a trophy — or maybe two. Hamilton, Ont., native Shai Gilgeous-Alexander might get a couple of his own as well.

Swimming Canada has issued a statement calling for more transparency following Saturday's revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication.

Audrey Leduc ran to a second-place finish in 10.96 seconds outdoors at the LSU Alumni Gold meet on Saturday, achieving the Paris Olympic standard and becoming the fastest Canadian women's 100-metre sprinter.

Kadriana Lott and Colton Lott continued their winning ways with an 8-3 victory over Czechia's Zuzana Paulova and Tomas Paul on Sunday at the world mixed doubles curling championship in Sweden.

Kenyan distance runners Alexander Mutiso Munyao and Peres Jepchirchir ran to victory at Sunday's London Marathon.

Jake DeBrusk had two goals and an assist as the Boston Bruins downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 in Game 1 of their first round NHL playoff series on Saturday.

Brianne Jenner scored her first-career PWHL hat trick, as Ottawa blanked Minnesota 4-0.

Canada's Brooke Henderson rocketed up the leaderboard and into a tie for second, being one shot off the lead at the Chevron Championship when the third round was suspended Saturday because of lightning in The Woodlands area, in Texas.

Sarah Nurse scored twice, including the overtime winner, and Kristen Campbell made 37 saves as visiting Toronto defeated Montreal 3-2 before a record crowd in the Professional Women's Hockey League on Saturday afternoon at the Bell Centre.

The world's top anti-doping regulator says 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication because it agreed with Chinese authorities and ruled their samples had been contaminated.

Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime lost 7-5, 6-4 to Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in a men's quarterfinal Saturday at the Bavarian International Tennis Championships in Munich.

Kadriana Lott and Colton Lott kicked off their first world mixed doubles curling championship with a 7-2 win over New Zealand on Saturday in Sweden.

Edmonton middle-distance runner Marco Arop didn't set his third Canadian record of 2024 but extended his individual win streak to four, clocking one minute 43.61 seconds in the men's 800 metres at the Diamond League season opener on Saturday in Xiamen, China.

The Cree Nation of Chisasibi, a northern Quebec town on the eastern shore of James Bay, is making history this weekend by hosting ten elite Indigenous curlers from all across Canada who will be taking to the ice for an historic game.