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Paul Goldschmidt belted a two-run homer in the ninth inning off closer Louis Varland to give the New York Yankees a 3-1 win and settle a pitchers’ duel between Toronto Blue Jays veteran Kevin Gausman and Cam Schlittler on Saturday.

The World Cup has arrived on the west coast, and the signs were impossible to miss Saturday afternoon on Granville Street.

Canada salvaged a point in its FIFA World Cup opener. An elusive victory is next on the to-do list.

When Team Canada arrives in Vancouver for its second World Cup group stage match against Qatar, it can expect to receive a massive west coast welcome. Literally.

Dangerous heat conditions and the demands of an elite soccer schedule could increase health risks for players during the FIFA World Cup, according to an orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon.

Cyle Larin took a quick pass, steadied himself and lashed his right boot at the ball.

The Toronto Blue Jays before their Friday night game against the New York Yankees paid tribute to the two police officers who were killed in the line of duty this week.

In many ways, a 1-1 draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina felt like a victory for Canada on a historic day for the host side at the FIFA World Cup on Friday. 

Ali Abdulla was over the moon when he learned his youth-soccer non-profit would receive 20 free tickets to the World Cup round of 16 match next month in Seattle.

Canada’s first-ever FIFA World Cup game on home soil ended in a 1-1 draw, earning the team’s first-ever point in the tournament’s history.

After the New York Knicks’ thrilling comeback victory during this week’s Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Karl-Anthony Towns delivered one of the funniest lines of the night at a press conference.

A federal judge refused on Friday to stop the White House from staging a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary — on U.S. President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.

The beginning of Dana White and the UFC’s road to the White House can be traced back 25 years to when a fringe mixed martial arts promotion — at the time still unable to shake the “human cockfighting” label applied to the sport years earlier by a U.S. senator — ran a modest event called “Battle on the Boardwalk.”

When Ghana opens its FIFA World Cup on Wednesday in Toronto against Panama, they will be without Thomas Partey. FIFA confirmed to The Athletic’s Dan Sheldon on Friday that the Villarreal midfielder has been denied entry to Canada due to a serious of rape charges in England while playing for Arsenal.

Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko says she will miss the rest of the grass-court season, including Wimbledon, with a knee injury.