The Toronto Blue Jays opened a new chapter in their attempt to build bench depth on the major league roster by parting with Ryan Goins and making a trade to acquire his replacement. Goins was not offered a contract for the 2018 season prior to the deadline for doing so at 8 p.m. ET on…

TORONTO — Sportsnet’s firing of baseball analyst Gregg Zaun came as no surprise to some of the network’s female staffers. What they could not understand was why it took so long. The day after the former Blue Jays catcher was fired for “inappropriate behaviour and comments,” two Sportsnet employees painted a picture of an offensive…

The rage that once propelled Emily Young is long gone. Eight years after a devastating arm injury derailed her Olympic wrestling aspirations, she is mere months away from a Paralympic Games debut in cross-country skiing and biathlon. It has been a journey of self-preservation and discovery. Young suffered a severely dislocated right elbow and shoulder,…

MOSCOW — In a combative mood hours before the World Cup draw, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko defended himself and his country amid an ongoing Olympic doping scandal. Mutko aimed barbs at the IOC and international media, and singled out other countries’ doping issues, in a 77-minute news conference at the State Kremlin Palace.…

I have never had anyone tell me that the only reason I am doing this job is because I’m attractive. No one has ever accused me of sleeping with an athlete, and when a reader disagrees with something I wrote, I have not been told to make them a sandwich. These things happen to female…

MOSCOW — Spain and Portugal, the last two European champions, were drawn Friday to meet in the first round of the World Cup, one day after Russia opens the tournament in one of the easiest groups of the competition. The Russians will play their first match at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on June 14 against…