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• Maple Leafs Game Day
  TAMPA BAY AT TORONTO -- 7 p.m., Air Canada Centre
  
  
• Today's best bet: Action continues at the Tim Hortons Brier in Halifax
  1 p.m. Baseball: Atlanta vs. N.Y. Yankees, Sportsnet West
  
  
• CanCon may rise this playoff season
  Is it the early spring weather, Olympic afterglow, or Canada's NHL turnaround that has put a jump in everyone's step?
  
  
• Roughriders sign Durant to extension
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed import quarterback Darian Durant, pictured, to a contract extension yesterday. Durant was heading into his option year and it is believed that one of the CFL team's off-season priorities was getting their starting quarterback re-signed. Financial terms were not released.
  
  
• Harrington keen to get back in swing
  Padraig Harrington is tweaking his preparation for this year's major championships in an effort to regain the form that made him a worldwide star. Harrington won three major titles -- the 2007 and 2008 British Opens and 2008 PGA Championship -- in the span of 13 months. But last year was a bust, so Harringt
  
  
• Paralympics coverage in a different league
  VANCOUVER - Televised coverage of the 2010 Paralympics will be a far cry from the thousands of hours international broadcasters devoted to the recently completed Olympic Games.
  
  
• Jacobs and Koe keep pace with Howard
  HALIFAX - It may as well have been hunting season inside the Halifax Metro Centre yesterday, what with all the moose calls of Northern Ontario and birdlike chants of Kooooooeeee, Kooooooeeee, ringing through the building.
  
  
• Skating fine line on the blindside
  So Matt Cooke wasn't suspended by the National Hockey League for concussing Marc Savard. Well, obviously. See, the problem is that when Cooke took a stride, measured his prey, and drove his shoulder through Savard's head on March 7, he wasn't doing anything illegal. In the hockey world, anyway.
  
  
• Guay unlocks inner winner
  Cheese cutters from Norway and a hunk of rock from a German mountainside are viewed as precious treasures on a World Cup ski circuit known for handing out some curious prizes. And medals? Sure, they hand those out, too: gold, silver and bronze, just like at the Olympics.
  
  
• Beckenbauer: Leave soccer rules alone
  German legend Franz Beckenbauer yesterday urged that the rules of soccer to be left as they are, warts and all, because refereeing errors can be part of the sport's charm. "Leave football as simple and as clear as it is, together with all its mistakes," Beckenbauer, pictured, a member of the executive commi
  
  
• Homan's rink extends perfect record
  Canada's Rachel Homan clinched a spot in the 1 vs. 2 Page playoff with two more wins at the world junior curling championships yesterday. Homan's Ottawa rink extended its perfect record to 8-0 with a 7-6 victory over Scotland's Lauren Gray and a 9-3 win over the Czech Republic's Anna Kubeskova. Homan led Gr
  
  
• Woes in net prove difficult to gloss over
  OTTAWA - The Washington Capitals and Chicago Blackhawks have continued to score goals since returning from the Olympic break. That's nothing new, of course, as two of the National Hockey League's three highest scoring teams prepare to head into the playoffs as top contenders to win the Stanley Cup.
  
  
• GOOD FROM BAD
  One day in the not too distant future, Tampa Bay Lightning Steve Downie will be a cover story for all the right reasons.
  
  
• Shipping mix-up blamed as Crosby's missing Olympic gear is located
  Sidney Crosby could not be happier to learn Hockey Canada has solved the case of his missing gold-medal hockey gear. Officials announced yesterday that it was all just a shipping mix-up and that Crosby's Olympic game-winning hockey stick is now en route to its rightful owner. "I'm grateful to everyone who t
  
  
• Chinese curling skip dismissed from team, criticized for wearing U.S. cap
  China curling skip Wang Fengchun's dismissal following his failure at the Vancouver Olympics was compounded by the fact he wore a U.S. team cap on the plane home. The Chinese men finished eighth out of 10 teams in the round robin with a 2-7 record. Wang was not allowed to join in the celebratory banquet on
  
  
• Crosby rises, Ovie falters
  OTTAWA -With two goals on Monday night (his 43rd and 44th goals of the season), Alex Ovechkin made a statement -- which was one more than he made to English-speaking reporters after Russia's Olympic loss to Canada.
  
  
• Winning one for the home crowd
  HALIFAX - Nova Scotia skip Ian Fitzner-LeBlanc's winless frustration ended yesterday as he scored a rare six in one end to finally earn his first victory at the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier.
  
  
• B.C. Lions release quarterback Pierce
  Two high-salaried quarterbacks was one too many for the B.C. Lions, who released Buck Pierce, pictured, yesterday. The move comes a day after the Lions signed Casey Printers to a two-year deal. "Buck has been a consummate professional during his time with our organization and in addition to thanking him for
  
  
• Canadian junior curlers stay undefeated
  Rachel Homan moved into sole possession of first place yesterday at the world junior curling championships with a 6-4 win over Sweden. Homan and her Ottawa rink scored deuces in the fourth and eighth ends against previously unbeaten Anna Hasselborg of Sweden. Homan is the lone undefeated rink at 6-0, with H
  
  
• Olympic champion Miller out with injury
  Olympic champion Bode Miller will miss this week's season-ending World Cup event to get treatment on a troublesome ankle injury, the U.S. team said yesterday. The American, who won the gold medal in the super combined as well as a silver and a bronze at the Vancouver Games, was not in contention for a seaso