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Jose Bautista is back in the major leagues with the Atlanta Braves, who inserted the 37-year-old at third base and fifth in the batting order against San Francisco.

Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey told his players to stay off social media before the NBA post-season even began.

Canada's Jennifer Abel and Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu took silver in the women's three-metre synchro springboard Friday at a FINA Diving World Series event.

Cam Atkinson scored the shootout winner to give the United States a 5-4 win over Canada on Friday. Atkinson's second shootout goal gave the U.S a 2-1 edge midway through the sixth round of the extra session.

Semenya won the women's 800m race at the opening Diamond League event in Doha. Under a new and controversial rule, Semenya will be forced to suppress her hormone levels in order to compete, beginning November 1.

Andre De Grasse finished sixth in the men's 200 metres on Friday, posting a time of 20.46 seconds at the season-opening Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar. His Canadian teammate, Aaron Brown, was fourth in a season-best 20.18.

Andre De Grasse finished sixth in the men's 200 metres on Friday, posting a time of 20.46 seconds at the season-opening Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar. His Canadian teammate, Aaron Brown, was fourth in a season-best 20.18.

The Olympic silver medallist in the 200m event finished in a disappointing sixth place at the Diamond League meet in Doha, in a time of 20.46 seconds.

American Noah Lyles ran a meet record 19.83 seconds in the 200m race at the Diamond League meet in Doha. Brown finished fourth, while De Grasse was sixth.

Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman cleared 4.54 metres Friday before missing all three attempts at 4.64 to finish seventh at the season-opening Diamond League meet in Doha, Qater, one day after Newman lashed out at Air Canada for damaging her equipment.

Canadian champion pole vaulter Alysha Newman finished in 7th place in the pole vault at the Diamond League meet in Doho, while using borrowed poles. Her own poles arrived broken following her flight to Doha.

After watching their team on the wrong end of all-time beatdown from LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, Toronto Raptors fans have been subject to another round of indignities on social media.

Former Canadian track star Bruny Surin has been named chef de mission for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, the Canadian Olympic committee announced.

The Dallas Stars have made Jim Montgomery the second head coach in three years to go from the college ranks to the NHL.

The Dallas Stars have made Jim Montgomery the second head coach in three years to go from the college ranks to the NHL.

The combined Korean women's table tennis team won a bronze medal at the world championships. The three-woman team lost to Japan 3-0 in the semifinals. The team was comprised of two players from the south and one from the north.

Toronto's Justyn Knight finished third in the men’s 5,000-metre race at the Payton Jordan Invitational early Friday morning in Stanford, Calif. Vancouver's Rachel Cliff took home third in the women's 10,000.

P.K. Subban and his brother Malcolm are both through to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Their father Karl is thrilled and a little torn.

Watch liuve action from the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships beginning on Friday at 8 p.m. ET and featuring the men's and women's 50k, as well and the 10k and 20k disciplines.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly program spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On this week's program, we feature action from the FINA Diving World Series event in Montreal.

After months of literally playing overseas, the Toronto Wolfpack are coming home. Here's a look back at the first half of the Wolfpack's season, as well as what to look forward to for the remainder of the campaign.

There was no comeback for the Winnipeg Jets this time. There was no cause for an on-ice shimmy from their 260-pound defenceman Dustin Byfuglien.

Pekka Rinne made 32 saves as the Nashville Predators defeated the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Thursday to even their second-round series 2-2.

Cleveland's Kevin Love rebounded from an ineffective performance in the series' opening game to drop 31 points on the Raptors in Game 2

Jake Guentzel scored twice to push his playoff total to a league-leading 10, Matt Murray stopped 20 shots and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 3-1 in Game 4 to even their tense Eastern Conference semifinal on Thursday night.

LeBron James had 43 points and 14 assists to lead the Cavaliers to a 128-110 throttling of Toronto on Thursday, and takes a 2-0 lead in their second-round series back home to Cleveland, where the Raptors have never won in five playoff games.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats selected receiver Mark Chapman first overall in the CFL draft Thursday night.

The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) will be held in Atlantic Canada for the first time when the games come to Halifax in 2020. Halifax was competing against Victoria and Ottawa to host the games.

​The Blue Jays and Indians won't meet again until the first week in September. After a lengthy day together, that's probably good for everyone.

Yangervis Solarte hit his first career grand slam with two outs in the 11th inning Thursday to send the Toronto Blue Jays to a 13-11 win over the Cleveland Indians in the first game of a traditional doubleheader set up because of April rainouts.

The NBA reached out to the Raptors in a bid to prevent a recurrence of the verbal altercation between Drake and Cavaliers veteran Kendrick Perkins.