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Brian Snitker will not return as Atlanta Braves manager and will move to an advisory role for the 2026 season
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — Brian Snitker will not return as Atlanta Braves manager and will move to an advisory role for the 2026 season. The Associated Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Once Heisman front-runners, QBs Arch Manning and DJ Lagway have become SEC disappointments
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Texas’ Arch Manning and Florida’s DJ Lagway opened the season as Heisman Trophy hopefuls, even considered front-runners by some. The highly touted quarterbacks with TV commercials, endorsement deals and probably as much name, image and likeness money as anyone in college were supposed to be the next great ones at their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Roger Federer leads the Tennis Hall of Fame nominees. See who else made the list
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
Roger Federer leads the list of nominees announced Wednesday for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2026. He was the first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles and ushered in an era of unprecedented greatness with younger rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. With a terrific forehand and serve, an attacking, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver set to open PWHL season against fellow expansion Seattle on Nov. 21
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
TORONTO — The PWHL is set to return on Nov. 21. The league released its schedule for the 2025-26 season on Wednesday with two new teams entering the fold. PWHL Vancouver begins its inaugural season at home on opening night, taking on fellow expansion team PWHL Seattle at Pacific Coliseum. Reigning two-time Walter Cup champion ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!FIFA World Cup 2026 tickets have gone on sale. Here’s how to try to get them
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
MIAMI (AP) — Not even half of the spots in the 48-team field have been claimed. The schedule of matches won’t be finalized until December. And other than host nations U.S., Canada and Mexico, nobody has any idea where or when they’ll be playing. Millions of soccer fans worldwide evidently don’t seem to mind any ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Miami’s Carson Beck ready for electric atmosphere at Florida State on Saturday night
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami quarterback Carson Beck has experienced playing in some historic college football stadiums under often hostile circumstances. He threw for 439 yards last year for Georgia at Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium in front of 100,000 or so fans. He threw for 313 yards two years ago at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium. He ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rookie Dillon Gabriel named Browns starting QB after Joe Flacco is benched
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
CLEVELAND (AP) — Rookie Dillon Gabriel will get his first NFL start on Sunday when the Cleveland Browns face the Minnesota Vikings in London. The Browns announced on Wednesday that they were benching Joe Flacco after he struggled to lead the offense in the first four games. Cleveland is 1-3 and ranked next-to-last in scoring, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Jonathan Di Bella looks to reclaim strawweight kickboxing world title
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
Canadian kickboxer Jonathan Di Bella has unfinished business Friday when he takes on Thailand’s Prajanchai PK Saenchai at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok. The 29-year-old from Montreal lost a unanimous decision to Prajanchai in June 2024 at the same venue for the One Championship strawweight kickboxing world title. It remains Di Bella’s only professional loss and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eileen Gu to return to mountain where she won Olympic gold to compete in Shaun White’s Snow League
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Eileen Gu will head back to the mountain in China where she won an Olympic title to ski in the Snow League, the halfpipe circuit founded by Shaun White. Gu, who won halfpipe and big air gold and slopestyle silver in freeskiing at the 2022 Winter Games, is one of eight ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mohsin Naqvi says India is still ‘welcome’ to receive Asia Cup from him
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top official of the Asian Cricket Council insisted on Wednesday that India is “welcome” to collect the Asia Cup trophy from him. “As ACC President , I was ready to hand over the trophy that very day and I am still ready now,” Mohsin Naqvi wrote on X. “If they truly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sweden coach Tomasson accuses Robin Olsen of letting down team by retiring from international soccer
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson accused Robin Olsen of letting down the national team by retiring from international duty after being told he was no longer first-choice goalkeeper. The 35-year-old Olsen announced Tuesday he was ending his international career, a day after he received a phone call from Tomasson to say he ... Read More »
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