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Canada's top-seeded men's beach volleyball team was eliminated by Mexico in their quarter-final match on Saturday afternoon at the Pan Am Games.

Canada's top-seeded men's beach volleyball team was eliminated by Mexico in their quarter-final match on Saturday afternoon at the Pan Am Games.

Powered by 5 starters from Newfoundland, Canada defeated Venezuela 2-1 in men's softball on Saturday afternoon to win the gold medal at the Pan Am Games for the eighth consecutive time

Canada defeated Venezuela 2-1 in men's softball on Saturday afternoon to win the gold medal at the Pan Am Games.

Canada defeated Venezuela 2-1 in men's softball on Saturday afternoon to win the gold medal at the Pan Am Games for the eighth consecutive time

Curt Casali led off the eighth inning with a home run to lead the Tampa Bay Rays past the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Saturday.

Curt Casali led off the eighth inning with a home run to lead the Tampa Bay Rays past the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Saturday.

Curt Casali led off the eighth inning with a tiebreaking home run as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the hometown Blue Jays 3-2 Saturday afternoon, dropping Toronto to 10-19 in one-run games this season.

Tampa Bay Lightning centre Steven Stamkos was minding his own business on Saturday when television cameras spotted him wearing a Rays hat a the Jays' game in Toronto.

CBC will live streaming Team Canada’s men’s Pan Am Games semifinal baseball game against Puerto Rico on Saturday night at 7 p.m. ET. On Sunday, CBC will stream either the bronze-medal game (1 p.m. ET) or the gold matchup (7 p.m. ET), depending on which contest Canada plays in.

The Canadian men's basketball roster for the Pan Am Games was officially announced on Saturday, with NBA players Anthony Bennett and Andrew Nicholson headlining the list.

The Canadian men's basketball roster for the Pan Am Games was officially announced on Saturday, with NBA players Anthony Bennett and Andrew Nicholson headlining the list.

Canada Basketball announced its 12-man roster for the men's basketball at the Pan Am Games on Saturday, a team that includes NBA players Anthony Bennett and Andrew Nicholson.

Canadian rhythmic gymnast Patricia Bezzoubenko won a bronze medal in the individual all-around competition Saturday at the Pan Am Games.

Belgium reached the Davis Cup semifinals for the first time since 1999 when Ruben Bemelmans and debutant Kimmer Coppejans won the doubles for an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Canada on Saturday.

The Toronto Raptors have signed Bismack Biyombo, a free agent who played last season with the Charlotte Hornets.

Canadian pitcher Jeff Francis helps to carry the men's national baseball team as it enters the semifinal round of their Pan Am Games tournament.

The British Open was stopped just 32 minutes after it resumed Saturday morning when gusts of up to 40 mph (64 kph) blew golf balls across the green and contributed to Dustin Johnson making bogey to fall into a share of the lead.

A second round that lasted nearly 39 hours due to rain one day and a raging wind the next finally ended with Dustin Johnson driving the 18th green and taking two putts from 150 feet for birdie and a 3-under 69 that gave him a one-shot lead over Danny Willett.

Dustin Johnson survived the longest round and 40 mph gusts with one last birdie for a 3-under 69 and a one-shot lead in the British Open.

The British Open was stopped just 32 minutes after it resumed Saturday morning when gusts of up to 40 mph (64 kph) blew golf balls across the green and contributed to Dustin Johnson making bogey to fall into a share of the lead.

They call them ‘Canada’s first family of the sport,’ and both Nick and Glenn Hoag continued to add to their Canadian legacy Friday night with a 25-18, 25-19, 25-18 sweep of Mexico in the men’s indoor volleyball opener.

Rookie A.C. Leonard caught two touchdown passes from Travis Lulay and the B.C. Lions handed the hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders a 27-24 loss on Friday, their fourth consecutive defeat to start the season.

Watch live ITU World Triathlon Series action on Saturday from Hamburg, starting with the women's race at 9:45 a.m. ET, followed by the men's at 11:45 a.m. ET.

Friday night's game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and hometown Washington Nationals was suspended with no outs in the sixth inning after a third power outage affected a bank of lights at Nationals Park.

Canada fell to their American rivals in preliminary-round baseball action at the Pan Am Games and will face Puerto Rico in the semifinals.

Canadian wrestler Dori Yeats capped a dominant day on the mat with a 13-2 gold-medal win over Maria Acosta of Venezuela in the women’s 69-kg class at the Pan Am Games.

The family of Jules Bianchi says the French Formula One driver has died from head injuries sustained in a crash at last year's Japanese Grand Prix.

A week into the Pan Am Games, Canada has already surpassed the 100-medal mark and has a strong grasp on the gold-medal lead after a successful Day 7.

Grant Shaw's five field goals and Matt Nichols' fourth-quarter touchdown pass was enough to lead the Edmonton Eskimos past the hometown Ottawa Redblacks 23-12 Friday night.

Jeff Ellsworth and his Canadian softball teammates earned the right to play in the gold-medal game Friday night with a 2-0 win over Argentina. The 37-year-old oufielder plans to retire after that game.

Jeff Ellsworth and his Canadian softball teammates earned the right to play in the gold-medal game Friday night with a 2-0 win over Argentina. The 37-year-old oufielder plans to retire after that game.

Drew Hutchison won for the seventh time this season at Rogers Centre and Justin Smoak and Josh Donaldson homered in a five-run fifth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Friday night.

CBC Sports spoke with Byron MacDonald, a former Olympian and now the University of Toronto swimming coach and CBC's swimming analyst, about the controversy on Day 6 of the Pan Am Games.

Miranda Ayim and Tamara Tatham scored 12 points apiece as Canada's women's basketball team held off Argentina 73-58 on Friday to improve to 2-0 at the Pan American Games.

Canada added its 20th and 21st Pan Am medals in swimming Friday night as Ryan Cochrane and Emily Overholt won the men's and women's 400-metre freestyle events.

Canada added their 20th medal in the pool with a gold medal courtesy Emily Overholt in the women's 400m freestyle. The 17-year-old was disqualified after she initially won the gold medal Thursday in the women's 400m individual medley.

Medals won or lost at the Toronto Pan Am Games will lead to an athlete's hunger for more.

Canada is proving to be dominant in track cycling at the Pan Am Games, as the women's pursuit team and Monique Sullivan both added gold medals Friday night.

Canada is proving to be dominant in track cycling at the Pan Am Games, as the women's pursuit team beat the Americans Friday to add another gold medal to its run.

Zsofia Balozs, a rookie with the Toronto Police Service, is living her lifelong dream of being a police officer and she is not convinced she has the time it takes to train to remain a high-level athlete.

American sprinter Justin Gatlin continued his fine form by clocking 9.78 to win the 100 metres at the Herculis Diamond League meet on Friday in Monaco, and then warned his rivals that he can go even faster at the world championships next month with the right start.