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Barcelona completed one of the most sensational comebacks in soccer by beating Paris Saint-Germain 6-1 to reach the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, scoring the decisive goal of a 6-5 victory on aggregate in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

A family that curls together, stays together. At least that's true for the Koes, who are out in full force in St. John's to cheer on two members of their family at the Brier.

Canada's bid to defend its Algarve Cup title ended in a 1-0 loss to Spain in the final of the 12-team women's soccer tournament Wednesday in Portugal.

Gary Bettman keeps saying it doesn't make sense for the NHL to shut down for the Olympics. But the commissioner continues to delay a final decision on whether his players will be allowed to compete in 2018.

The Toronto Maple Leafs visit the carolina Hurricanes Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada. Watch coverage with our free live stream only on the CBC Sports app or tune in to CBC-TV.

Agent Leigh Steinberg is en route to Regina to finalize a deal between former NFL quarterback Vince Young and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Cavaliers centre Andrew Bogut will miss the remainder of the NBA season, including playoffs, with a broken left leg. The 7-footer hurt himself just 58 seconds into his Cleveland debut on Monday night.

​Dominique Ducharme will return as Canada's head coach at the 2018 world junior hockey championship in Buffalo. Assistant coaches Tim Hunter and Kris Knoblauch have also been retained.

Three-time champion John Morris is the only skip in the Tim Hortons Brier main draw who throws third but still calls the game. It's a setup that has worked well for Morris and B.C. fourth Jim Cotter since they reunited last spring.

Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs is the first skip to reach the six-win mark at the Tim Hortons Brier. The reigning Olympic curling champion defeated New Brunswick's Mike Kennedy 6-5 in Wednesday's early draw at Mile One Centre in St. John's.

If NHL players don't attend the Pyeongchang Olympics next February, the bye week will proceed, with the league eyeing an arrangement that would see half the league off for one bye week [not conference-specific] with the other half of teams to follow.

After a slowish start to the season, the Calgary Flames dynamic duo of Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan has turned things around, surging during Calgary's sizzling 12-2-1 streak and solidifying the team's playoff standing in the Western Conference.

A seventh alleged victim is testifying at the trial of the former national ski coach, who faces 57 charges, including sexual assault and breach of trust, for alleged incidents dating back to the 1990s.

Two-time Olympian Perdita Felicien leads CBC Sports' latest podcast: Off Guard. Every week, one unconventional theme is considered three different ways. The sixth episode is available now.

Brad Gushue and the "b'ys" are back in St. John's for the Brier this week. Regardless of how his rink does, Gushue can still lay claim to being a part of Canada's first men's Olympic curling gold.

Mikael Kingsbury had plenty of momentum, but couldn't score a moguls world title on Wednesday. The 24-year-old freestyle skiing star from Deux-Montagnes, Que., entered the world championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, with seven World Cup wins in a row, but settled for bronze in the men's final.

he Netherlands improved to 2-0 in Pool A and advanced to the second round in Tokyo along with Israel, which also has a 2-0 record.

Dustin Kidby has never shied away from doing things first. Now the Saskatchewan lead is helping carve out a path to greater inclusion as an openly gay curler at the Brier.

They played hundreds of games and won 95 per cent of their matches, an astonishing success rate for any team in any sport. Now, a women's basketball team that dominated for years is getting a moment in the spotlight.

For Olympian Deidra Dionne, International Women's Day offers a chance to reflect on both the benefits and challenges that sport presents.

The Toronto Maple Leafs' longtime play-by-play man spoke with CBC Toronto about his journey, the upstart Leafs and how "Holy Mackinaw" was born.

Paul Byron scored in overtime as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Vancouver Canucks for the second time this season, 2-1 on Tuesday night at Rogers Arena.

Anders Lee scored a pair of goals as the New York Islanders gained some valuable points with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.

​James van Riemsdyk broke out of a scoring slump, and the Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday.

Dirk Nowitzki has become the sixth NBA player and first international player to score 30,000 points.