TORONTO — Gregg Zaun has been fired from Sportsnet due to “inappropriate behaviour and comments” toward female employees. Rick Brace, President of Rogers Media, said in a statement Thursday that the company was terminating the contract of the MLB studio analyst effective immediately. “This week, we received complaints from multiple female employees at Sportsnet regarding…

Roberto Luongo is aching. It’s not one particular thing. His body, the one that has played more than 1,000 games and been bombarded with countless pucks over an 18-year NHL career, is sore from head to toe. Three days ago, he stopped 23 of 25 shots to become only the second goalie to win 200…

Canadian ski jumper Atsuko Tanaka remembers having to call her parents to pick her up from the dog park when a bout of nausea — a symptom of a concussion — brought her to her knees while she was walking her dog. That’s when the Olympian wondered, at age 22, if her ski jumping days…

Your midday sports snack. Toast points • Toronto FC will learn the identity of their MLS Cup final opponent shortly after midnight. It will almost certainly be the Seattle Sounders, who headed home for the second leg of their Western Conference title series with the Houston Dynamo up 2-0 on two away goals. The Sounders…

Two NFL players who have been kneeling during the national anthem have questioned a tentative plan negotiated this week by the NFL to donate millions of dollars to groups that aid African-American communities, calling it an effort by the league to get them to stop their protests. The players, Eric Reid of the San Francisco…

Your midday sports snack. Toast points • Toronto FC needs a victory at home tonight to advance to a second straight MLS Cup final. The Reds, who’ll be enlivened by the return of star attackers Sebastian Giovinco and Jozy Altidore from suspensions, are deadlocked 0-0 with Columbus Crew SC heading into the decisive leg of…