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OTTAWA — Dru Brown won't be hitting CFL free agency. The Ottawa Redblacks signed the American quarterback to a two-year deal Wednesday. The CFL club acquired Brown's rights last week from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for a 2024 fifth-round draft pick.

Five players from Canada's 2018 world junior team have taken leaves of absence from their professional hockey clubs amid a report that five members of that roster have been asked to surrender to police in London, Ont., to face sexual assault charges.

Glenn Howard and John Epping are usually the skips to beat at the Ontario men's curling championship. Add another name to that list for this week's playdowns in Dorchester, Ont. Sam Mooibroek's young Whitby, Ont.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has banned gender-affirming care for minors and restricted transgender women’s and girls’ participation on sports teams, a move that has families of transgender children scrambling over how best to care for them.

NEW YORK (AP) — British billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer club , pleaded guilty Wednesday to insider trading and conspiracy charges in New York, saying he knew that sharing nonpublic information about publicl

A look at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series: ORIGINS: Cliff diving as a sport is believed to have originated in the 1700s when Hawaiian chief King Kahekili first jumped from the holy cliffs of Kaunolo SERIES HISTORY: The Red Bull men's competiti

Canadian Molly Carlson goes into this weekend's final stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in New Zealand in second place and with a smile in her face.

SALT LAKE CITY — The owners of the NBA's Utah Jazz have requested the NHL initiate an expansion process to bring a franchise to Utah.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks announced another two-year contract on Wednesday, agreeing to an extension with goaltender Petr Mrazek. Mrazek's new deal runs through the 2025-26 season and carries a salary-cap hit of $4.25 million.

GATINEAU, Que. — Canadian Paralympians will receive the same financial reward for medals as the country's Olympians starting with this year's Paris Paralympics.