CBC Sports' daily newsletter looks at the top Canadian players to watch as the chase for the Larry O'Brien Trophy heats up.

The Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team is off to a strong start at its Paralympic qualifying tournament in Osaka, Japan.

For the first time since 1997, no one from three generations of the Dunaway family group attended the Arizona Coyotes' fan appreciation night ? the final game of the regular season ? amid reports Wednesday's game against the Edmonton Oilers was the last one before the team is relocated.

Team Canada hasn't fielded an Olympic men's 4x400m team since 1992 (when troll dolls were all the rage). Now they are one step closer to making it happen for the first time in 32 years. Athletics North breaks down why that is.

Toronto Raptors two-way player Jontay Porter was banned from the NBA on Wednesday after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose.

Veteran skip Brad Jacobs's time as a free agent didn't last long. Jacobs is joining third Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant and lead Ben Hebert for next season ? former teammates of Brendan Bottcher who are based in Alberta.

Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Bavarian International Tennis Championships with a 6-3, 6-2 over Japan's Taro Daniel on Thursday in Munich.

Following the difficulty of the pandemic-altered Tokyo Games, fans will once again pack venues and create electric atmospheres for athletes when the Games begin this summer in Paris.

23-year-old Arshdeep Bains said a prayer and stepped onto the ice as he took his first NHL strides around the barren ice at Ball Arena in Denver, Colo. At that moment, it was official ? Bains was in the NHL and just the fourth Punjabi player in league history.

In our weekly Olympic and Paralympic news update, we update recent Canadian qualifications look at what Canada will wear during the opening and closing ceremonies.