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Inter Miami star Lionel Messi has become the first back-to-back MVP in MLS history, getting announced Tuesday as this year's winner of the league's top individual honour.

The games on Wednesday and Saturday in Edmonton will be the last Canada will play before the Olympic tournament opens on Feb. 5 in Italy. The U.S. outscored Canada 10-2 over two games in November.

A two-year suspension from competitive swimming has forced Penny Oleksiak to answer questions about drug use, train by herself in public pools and defend her legacy as Canada's most decorated female Olympian.

Miami Heat player Terry Rozier pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he helped gamblers placing bets on his performance in NBA games.

Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice shorter than NHL-regulation size.

Jon Cooper expects there will be "excruciatingly tough" decisions when it comes down to formalizing Canada's roster for the NHL's Olympic return.

Canadian freestyle skier Julien Viel won bronze in men's competition Monday at the opening stop of World Cup moguls season in Ruka, Finland.

Gavin McKenna headlines the 27 players Hockey Canada has invited to its world junior training camp ahead of the 2026 tournament in Minnesota.

Goalie Jordan Binnington backstopped Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off and opened the NHL season as the front-runner to start in February's Milan-Cortina Winter Games. But a sluggish start, for both him and the St. Louis Blues, has raised questions .. ...

Former Toronto Blue Jay infielder Jeff Kent was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Sunday by the contemporary era committee, while steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were among seven players who fell short once again.