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Two former South American soccer officials were convicted Friday of corruption charges at a U.S. trial stemming from the FIFA bribery scandal, while deliberations will continue next week for a third official.

Canada will go with an experienced team that should get a jolt from some new faces when it attempts to win a fifth straight gold medal in women's hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Tiger Woods is embarking on his latest comeback without a swing coach. Woods had fusion surgery on his lower back in April and made a physically strong return to golf in the Bahamas earlier this month.

How does Olympic curling work? And who'll be competing for Canada at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea? Here's the easiest way to find out.

The Toronto Blue Jays have named Nikki Huffman head athletic trainer, making her only the second woman to hold that position in any of North America's top four sports leagues.

Toronto Maple Leafs star centre Auston Matthews says he has been dealing with concussion symptoms after colliding with a teammate in a game earlier this month.

Canada's luge relay team is set to gain a bronze medal from the Sochi Olympics. The upgrade is a result of Russian athletes being stripped of medals over doping allegations.

A year after their heartbreaking shootout loss to the United States in the gold-medal game in Montreal, goalie Carter Hart and the other six returning players on the Canadian team want to return the favour at the world junior championship in Buffalo, N.Y.

Canada's Georgia Simmerling followed up her first World Cup ski cross medal of the season with another podium finish in Innichen, Italy, on Friday.

Watch live today at noon ET as Hockey Canada reveals the women’s Olympic hockey team headed to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Twenty-three Canadian hockey women, including 2014 Olympic hero Marie-Philip Poulin, will be tasked with the challenge of trying to win a fifth straight gold medal in February at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

​Canadian freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury captured his 10th straight World Cup moguls title on Friday while Andi Naude of Penticton, B.C., collected a bronze medal in her women's race for a second day in a row.

After four years of consistently reaching finals without a medal to show for his efforts, slopestyle skier Evan McEachran of Oakville, Ont., decided it was time to shake things up.

Think you have a stressful job? Meghan Agosta has two. The veteran Canadian hockey forward is also a cop in Vancouver. Lucky for her, she loves both jobs.

Think you have a stressful job? Meghan Agosta has two. The veteran forward for the Canadian women's hockey team is also a cop in Vancouver. Lucky for her, she loves them both.

Kevin Labanc scored 1:53 into overtime and the San Jose Sharks beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 on Thursday night.

Dick Enberg, the sportscaster who got his big break with UCLA basketball and went on to call Super Bowls, Olympics, Final Fours and Angels and Padres baseball games, died Thursday. He was 82.

Drake Caggiula scored the go-ahead goal at 19:10 of the third period as the Edmonton Oilers won their third game in a row for the first time this season, defeating the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Thursday.

The latest price tag for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been trimmed slightly, but is still nearly twice the initial estimate even after a major cost-cutting effort.

Brayden Point and Steven Stamkos scored in the shootout, lifting the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.

Charlie McAvoy celebrated his 20th birthday by scoring the decisive goal in the shootout, Tuukka Rask made 37 saves and the Boston Bruins beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Thursday night.

DeMar DeRozan scored a career-high 45 points and the Toronto Raptors overcame a 22-point deficit to beat the Joel Embiid-less Philadelphia 76ers 114-109 on Thursday night.

Steve Nash joins the 2018 list of eligible nominees for the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue missed Thursday night's game against Chicago with an undisclosed illness.

Teenage phenom Taylor Ruck is going home with a trio of gold medals after a turning in a number of record-breaking performances at the Lausanne Swim Cup in Lausanne, Switzerland this week.