OTTAWA — Marcus Ball spent three years with his fingers so close to that brass ring. After leaving the Toronto Argonauts in 2013, he played three seasons in the National Football League, on four different rosters. He was a part-time contributor, though, and couldn’t quite get the security, and riches, of a regular starter. So,…

WHISTLER, B.C. — Kaillie Humphries added to her World Cup women’s points standings lead Friday night, getting her second win of the season and giving Canada a two-race sweep of bobsled golds on the day. Humphries and Melissa Lotholz prevailed over Jamie Greubel Poser and Aja Evans of the U.S. by nearly a half-second. The…

WHISTLER, B.C. — Jane Channell knows the track at the Whistler Sliding Centre better than most of her competitors, but she was doubting herself going into Friday’s World Cup skeleton race. So when she ended up on the podium with a silver medal at her home course, she couldn’t hold back the tears. The 29-year-old…

OTTAWA — In a convention centre a few blocks from Parliament Hill on Friday morning, a crowd of Canadian Football League fans, dressed in a riot of colours and with no lack of fireman helmets, waited for the chance to enter a room where Randy Ambrosie would give the annual commissioner’s town hall address. A…

OTTAWA — Randy Ambrosie could only punt on the concussion questions for so long. When he was installed as CFL commissioner in July, the former lineman said that he was no doctor and no scientist, so he didn’t want to wade into the debate about the risks associated with football and brain disease. But he’s…

GENEVA — As four more Russians were disqualified Friday for doping at the Sochi Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach signalled a possible shift toward barring the country’s athletes from the Pyeongchang Games. Two-time bobsled gold medallist Alexander Zubkov, who carried the Russian flag at the opening ceremony in Sochi, was removed from the 2014 records…