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Blue Jackets forward Brandon Dubinsky has been suspended for one game without pay for cross-checking Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby during Friday night's game in Columbus.

On a conference call Saturday, left-handed pitcher J.A. Happ says his decision to return to the Blue Jays was made easier after seeing the energy in Toronto during the city's first MLB post-season run in 22 years.

The UBC Thunderbirds are the Vanier Cup champions. Freshman quarterback Michael O'Connor led the Thunderbirds to a dramatic 26-23 victory over the defending champion Montreal Carabins.

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal won the first men's World Cup downhill of the season at Lake Louise on Saturday. Italy's Peter Fill finished just a hundredth of a second behind the Norwegian for second.

Canada won the gold medal in the women’s double mini- trampoline team event on Saturday at the 2015 trampoline gymnastics world championships in Odense, Denmark.

Canadian cross-country skier Alex Harvey came in only 11.2 seconds behind the defending champion to claim silver at the season-opening World Cup weekend in Finland.

One week ago Patrick Chan told Scott Russell of CBC Sports that he would be going to Barcelona for figure skating's Grand Prix Final. At the time his qualification wasn't confirmed. But it is now.

Canadian luger Alex Gough opened the season with a podium finish at a World Cup event in Austria on Saturday.

Canadian figure skating pair Meaghan Duhamel and Eric Radford claimed their fifth straight victory on the ISU Grand Prix circuit on Saturday at the NHK Trophy in Nagano, Japan.

The Canadian pair of Megan Duhamel and Eric Radford finished first on Saturday at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Japan with a total overall score of 202.72.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored in overtime, Mike Smith stopped 25 shots and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Calgary Flames 2-1 Friday night for coach Dave Tippett's 500th career victory.

After his poorest game this season, Antti Niemi stopped all three Vancouver shootout attempts after making 34 saves and the hometown Dallas Stars beat the Canucks 3-2. Tyler Seguin scored the winning goal on the first shot of the shootout.

Niklas Kronwall scored the winning goal 26 seconds into overtime to lift the Detroit Red Wings over the visiting Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Friday night.

Alex Galchenyuk and Sven Andrighetto scored in regulation and again in the shootout and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Friday night for their fourth straight win.

​Wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc was one of seven inductees into the Canadian Paralympic Hall of Fame on Friday night. Petitclerc competed at five Paralympic Games from 1992-2008 and earned 21 medals in wheelchair racing.

Pittsburgh Penguins star centre Sidney Crosby was forced to leave his team's game against the Blue Jackets in Columbus on Friday night after being cross-checked in the neck.

Columbus' Brandon Dubinsky will have a hearing with the NHL's department of player safety on Saturday for his cross-check to Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby's neck late in the second period of the Blue Jackets' 2-1 overtime victory on Friday night.

The Toronto Blue Jays have added more depth to their starting rotation, signing left-hander J.A. Happ on Friday to a three-year contract worth $36 million US.

Experience trumped any pressure Canada's Denis Vachon may have felt as he collected a silver medal Friday at the 2015 world trampoline championships in Denmark.

Olympic speed skater Denny Morrison has tweeted that he will not face any legal repercussions following his motorcycle accident in Calgary this past May.