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Montreal Canadiens forward Alex Galchenyuk is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury.

Tickets for Saturday's MLS Cup final sold out three minutes after going on sale to the general public Monday.

Coming within 46 seconds of the Canadian men's marathon record at Sunday's Fukuoka Marathon in Japan will serve as motivation for Hamilton runner Reid Coolsaet in 2017. "I did surprise myself with how good I felt through most of the race."

Those days of pitching for the Long Island Ducks, out of the majors and almost out of luck, happily seem far away now for Rich Hill.

Winners at the 13th FINA world short-course swimming championships this week in Windsor, Ont., will receive the most unique and most Canadian medal ceremony gift ever — Muskoka chairs.

Known for their boundary pushing and technically difficult routines, which despite errors has kept them on the podium this season, Canadian and pairs world champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are still working out the kinks in their routine ahead of the Grand Prix Final.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are in the market for a backup goaltender after placing Jhonas Enroth on waivers Monday. The 28-year-old Swede failed to record a win in six games (four starts) this season after signing a one-year, $750,000 US deal in August.

South American soccer's governing body CONMEBOL awarded the continent's championship to Brazil's Chapecoense club after most of the team died in a plane crash in Colombia last week, according to a CONMEBOL statement on Monday.

Thomas Bach and Word Anti Doping agency head Craig Reedie say they have worked out their "perceived differences" in effort to protect clean athletes.

Watch the world short-course swimming championships on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. ET from Windsor, Ont. CBCSports.ca is live streaming the event from Tuesday to Sunday with the morning heats going at 9:30 a.m. ET, and then the semifinals and finals at 6:30 p.m. ET.

The Blue Jays kick-started baseball's winter meetings in Maryland on Monday, announcing they have reached an agreement with free-agent first baseman Steve Pearce on a two-year deal worth $12.5 million US.

There was no shortage of moments that caught the attention of hockey fans over the last seven days, including Tomas Hertl's laugh, Jack Eichel's big return, and an advertising agency's regrettable decision to leave Jonathan Toews and Auston Matthews unattended.

Sepp Blatter says he has lost his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a six-year ban by FIFA.

It was a jam-packed weekend of high-performance sport around the world, with many Canadian athletes in action, including Kaillie Humphries, Elisabeth Vathje, and the luge team relay squad winning World Cup gold.

Johnny Gaudreau had a goal and an assist in his return from a broken finger and the Calgary Flames erupted for five goals in a 6:04 span in the second period to cruise to an 8-3 win against the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.

Behind Thomas Rawls bouncing off and through tacklers and a big-play punch from Tyler Lockett, the Seattle Seahawks rediscovered their offensive star power on Sunday night.

Barely 2 minutes after narrowly missing a goal that could have put the game away, Andrew Copp came right back and scored an even bigger one.

Dominic Larocque stopped all seven shots he faced for his fifth career shutout as Canada opened the World Sledge Hockey Challenge on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over Norway.

The Winnipeg Jets were without their leading scorer for the second straight night as centre Mark Scheifele remains day-to-day with a lower-body injury.

As baseball teams gathered for the start of the winter meetings Monday, star players were dangled along with the usual crop of free agents.

Paul Byron scored the clinching goal in the fourth round of the shootout, and the Montreal Canadiens avoided a winless swing through California with a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday.