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There's plenty of knocking on wood this time of year around the NHL as teams hope to avoid injuries that could damage their playoff hopes. For some, it's already too late.

Blue Jays second baseman Devon Travis played five innings of defence and had an RBI double Friday in his spring training debut. "It's a big step right there," he said. "My knee felt good. I'm excited."

According to the GTHL's manager of hockey operations Peter Kourtis, Game 1 of the Greater Toronto Hockey League Midget AA city final between the Steetsville Tigers and the Mississauga Jets is the longest game anybody can remember.

​NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says the International Olympic Committee and hockey's governing body will have to make concessions before the league sends the world's best players to the Winter Games in South Korea next February.

Canada has slipped one place to No. 5 in the latest FIFA world women's soccer rankings. There is also movement atop the table with the U.S. falling from No. 1 after two losses to France and Germany at the SheBelieves Cup.

Brogan MacDougall reportedly is in "excellent form" ahead of her debut run at Sunday's world cross-country championships (CBCSports.ca, 7 a.m. ET) in Kampala, Uganda, where the 16-year-old high school standout will lead Canada's 27-athlete contingent.

Canada's Rachel Homan has booked her ticket to the final at the women's world curling championship. The Ottawa skip led her rink to a 7-3 win over Russia in today's Page playoff game between the top two round-robin teams in Beijing.

The Colorado Avalanche and Ottawa Senators will play two regular-season games in Sweden next season. The NHL and NHL Players' Association on Friday announced their new Global Series games Nov. 10 and 11 in Stockholm.

CBC Sports is the new home of the Toronto Wolfpack. But what exactly is rugby league? How is it different from rugby union? Here’s everything you need to know.

For the first time since his trade to Montreal, Darian Durant has returned to Saskatchewan for CFL Week in Regina.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. Saturday's program includes coverage from the world junior figure skating championships and World Cup snowboard cross.

Watch live on Sunday at 10 a.m. ET as the Toronto Wolfpack visit the Keighley Cougars in Kingston League Press League 1 action.

Drake Caggiula and Jordan Eberle scored 1:10 apart to break a tie late in the third period, and the Edmonton Oilers rallied to beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-4 on Thursday night.

Sidney Crosby was caught slashing Marc Methot on Thursday night. The slash looked harmless until Methot took off his glove and realized his fingertip was bloodied and mangled.

Pekka Rinne made 24 saves to lead the Nashville Predators over the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Thursday night.

Auston Matthews and William Nylander had two points apiece as the Toronto Maple Leafs picked up their seventh win in the last nine games, a 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.

Lee Stempniak scored twice as the visiting Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Thursday night to extend their point streak to nine games and keep their playoff hopes alive.

DeMar DeRozan scored 40 points, marking the first time he's had that many in consecutive games, and the Toronto Raptors pulled off their 19th double-digit comeback of the season to beat the Miami Heat 101-84 on Thursday night.

Canadians Dillon Brooks and Dylan Ennis each scored in double figures to help the Oregon Ducks defeat the Michigan Wolverines 69-68 on Thursday to advance to the Elite 8 of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

Kyle Turris and Bobby Ryan scored in the shootout as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 Thursday night in a game marred by a gruesome finger injury to Ottawa's Marc Methot.

Kyle Turris and Bobby Ryan scored in the shootout as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 Thursday night in a game marred by a gruesome finger injury to Ottawa's Marc Methot.