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Tiger Woods is returning to competition at his holiday tournament in the Bahamas the week after Thanksgiving. Woods has not played since he withdrew from the Dubai Desert Classic on Feb. 3 with back spams. Two months later, he had his fourth back surgery in just over two years.

Home runs kept flying over the wall at Minute Maid Park, on line drives up toward the train tracks, on fly balls that just dropped over the fence. Twenty-five runs were scored in a game started by the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw and the Astros' Dallas Keuchel, Cy Young Award winners regarded as among baseball's best.

​Former Vancouver Canuck Kay Whitmore has been ordered to repay $384,000 he made investing in a $110 million fake investment scheme run by former B.C. notary Rashida Samji.

Two-time Olympic champion Heather Moyse doesn't want to rush preparations in her latest bobsleigh comeback bid. However, she has limited time to get into peak form with the Winter Games just over three months away.

Vasek Pospisil won his opening set, but then dropped the next two in close fashion as the Canadian fell to France's Nicolas Mahut 7-5, 5-7, 6-7 (4) on Monday at the Paris Masters tennis tournament.

It was a bad day for Canadians at the Paris Masters tennis tournament on Monday as both Vasek Pospisil and Denis Shapovalov lost their first-round matches.

Canadian stars Kaetlyn Osmond and Meagan Duhamel can understand how an eating disorder can force a figure skater to back away from the sport, like American star Gracie Gold.

Houston leads the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 in the best-of-seven World Series and will just happen to have the post-season's hottest pitcher on the mound in Justin Verlander when the Fall Classic resumes on the West Coast on Tuesday (8:20 p.m. ET).

In the Vancouver Canucks' impressive 6-3-1 start to the NHL season, one thing is crystal clear: rookie coach Travis Green is in total control behind the bench, writes to CBC Sports hockey analyst Tim Wharnsby.

Saudi Arabia will for the first time allow women to attend sports events, preparing special sections in three selected stadiums from early next year in another step toward opening public spaces to women.

Canadian captain Ghislaine Landry is one of three nominees for World Rugby's women's sevens player of the year. Landry scored 269 points to lead the World Series for the third season in a row, helping Canada win in Sydney and finish third overall.

Two-time defending Olympic bobsleigh champion Kaillie Humphries has added 2006 Olympic gold medallist Sandra Kiriasis to her coaching staff for the upcoming season. Kiriasis, a German pilot who like Humphries is a three-time world champion, joins the Canadian in preparation for the 2018 Winter Games.

A record-setting regular season in its rear-view mirror, Toronto FC's sights are now set firmly on the MLS Cup. First up are the sixth-seeded New York Red Bulls on Monday night in Harrison, N.J.

There was no shortage of moments that caught the attention of hockey fans over the last seven days, including Phil Kessel being ambushed in his hotel room, the effect the City of Brotherly Love seems to have on Kevin Bieksa, and the howlin' sad fans of the Arizona Coyotes.

Alex Bregman hit a walk-off single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the 10th inning, and the Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 Sunday night to take a 3-2 World Series lead.

Alex Bregman hit a walk-off single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the 10th inning, and the Houston Astros outslugged the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 Sunday night to take a 3-2 World Series lead.

Sean Monahan scored the winner 9:09 into the third period as the Calgary Flames broke a four-game home losing streak with a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals on Sunday night.

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has another hearing Monday to decide whether he'll serve a six-game suspension as a result of a yearlong NFL investigation that found he had multiple physical confrontations in 2016 with his girlfriend at the time.

Wheeler contributed three in the Jets' five-goal first period against Pittsburgh​

The Vancouver Whitecaps and Seattle Sounders combined for just one shot on target in a scoreless draw to open their Western Conference semifinal on Sunday night.

Captain Blake Wheeler scored three of Winnipeg's five first-period goals and the Jets went on to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 7-1 on Sunday.

Russell Wilson hit Jimmy Graham for an 18-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left and the Seattle Seahawks rallied for a wild 41-38 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday.