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Luis Arraez may be the best hitter hardly anyone in North America knows about. His middle name is Sangel, but it may as well be Anonymous. Avid baseball fans surely know about Arraez, because he won the American League batting championship last year with Minnesota Twins. In the off-season, he was traded to Miami Marlins,...

Step aside, Ernie Richardson. Make room, Kevin Martin. Stand over there, Kevin Koe. Slide to the side, Randy Ferbey. There’s now only one Canadian curling skip with five Brier titles and that is St. John, NL’s Brad Gushue, who claimed the title as the only five-time winner in mid-March by beating Matt Dunstone of Manitoba...

When Nick Taylor of Abbotsford battled Scottie Scheffler down the stretch at the recent Waste Management Phoenix Open, he won $2.2 million and propelled himself into fifth place on the PGA Tour’s money list this year. His dramatic success also moved him into 77th position in the Official Golf World Ranking list, giving Canada an...

The Seattle Kraken won seven straight road games to set a National Hockey League record, Tom Brady may have played his last game in the NFL, Canadian Brooke Henderson won the first LPGA tournament of the season, LeBron James became only the second player to surpass 38,000 career points in the National Basketball Association, and...

World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, via Golf.com reporter Claire Rogers: “I don’t know how much money I’ve made this year, but it’s definitely more than I deserve for whacking a little golf ball around.”

It’s time for the annual multiple-choice sports quiz: Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@yahoo.ca

The Chicago Blackhawks will retire Patrick Kane’s jersey one day, but because professional hockey is a business, he’ll almost certainly be traded away from the Windy City first. Kane remains a superior offensive talent at age 33. The combination of his contract expiring after this season, and the Blackhawks in the midst of a full...

What is the name of Joe Carter is going on these days in Toronto? The Blue Jays, sputtering along like an also-ran for most of the Major League Baseball season, caught fire in late August/ early September and got themselves smack dab into the midst of the wildcard race in the American League.

Larry Walker and Ferguson Jenkins are almost guaranteed to have some Canadian company in baseball’s Hall of Fame a few years from now.

No one is even sure what to call it — the ‘British Open’ is apparently offensive to those living in the UK; the ‘Open Championship’ seems pretentious, as if it’s the only Open of consequence in the world; and the plain ‘Open’ offends many Americans, who rightly say, ‘hey, we have an Open, too’ —...