The Edmonton Oilers will try to spoil another impressive run by the Sharks when they visit San Jose on Saturday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 10 p.m. ET).

The Montreal Canadiens are unbeaten in the first three contests of a seven-game homestand, the longest in franchise history. They will look for their fourth straight when they host the Devils on Saturday night.

Canada's Helen Upperton fell agonizingly short of a second straight podium to start the bobsleigh World Cup season, placing fourth Saturday in Altenberg, Germany.

Searching for more offence, the struggling Buffalo Sabres called up high-scoring little man Nathan Gerbe from their AHL affiliate in Portland on Saturday.

New Toronto president and general manager Brian Burke has hired former Vancouver Canucks GM Dave Nonis as the Leafs' senior vice-president of hockey operations, the club announced Saturday.

For the second straight day, Aksel Lund Svindal won a World Cup alpine race on the same hill on which he suffered a gruesome season-ending spill a year ago, capturing Saturday's men's super-G at Beaver Creek, Colo.

A women's World Cup downhill race scheduled for Saturday afternoon at Lake Louise, Alta., was called off due to heavy snowfall.

Canada's Charles Hamelin and Francois-Louis Tremblay each captured a bronze medal at Saturday's short-track speedskating World Cup event in Nagano, Japan.

The Santa Clara baseball program announced its dates for its annual Winter Baseball camps, which will be held at Stephen Schott Stadium on the campus of Santa Clara University. During the December holiday season, SCU will offer a Winter Camp

For all the disappointment that fans will feel, few could be more heartbroken that Honda Motor will leave the Formula One circuit than Takeo Fukui.

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team will felicitate World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand on the opening day of their first cricket Test against England, beginning in Chennai on December 11. Dhoni will present Anand with a one carat

Football icon Diego Armando Maradona arrived to a rousing welcome by thousands of frenzied fans who remained awake till past mid night waving Argentina's national flag of white and sky blue for first glimpse of the legend at the city

Manchester United defender Patrice Evra was banned for four matches and fined 15,000 pounds by the Football Association (FA) on Friday for his part in a fracas at Chelsea in April. The FA's regulatory commission found the French international guilty

Reigning NHL points champion and MVP Alex Ovechkin looks to continue his scoring resurgence as he carries the injury depleted Washington Capitals to Toronto on Saturday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 6:30 p.m. ET).

Canada's Kristina Groves won the gold medal in a women's 1,000-metre speedskating race in Changchun, China, on Saturday, continuing her stellar start to the World Cup season.

Jeff Stoughton's fine run at The National came to a crashing halt Saturday as the Winnipeg skip was defeated 7-6 in the quarter-finals by Edmonton's Randy Ferbey.

Jason Spezza netted a hat-trick on Saturday to put the Ottawa Senators over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2.

Liverpool beat Blackburn Rovers 3-1 at Ewood Park on Saturday to stay top of the Premier League and increase the pressure on Rovers manager Paul Ince whose team have now gone 10 league matches without a win.

Soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona on Saturday said he was surprised by the response of the crazy fans who thronged in thousands to have a glimpse of him as he laid the foundation stone of a football school at Maheshtala

Soccer legend Diego Maradona on Saturday refused to be drawn into any debate over who is the greatest, Pele or himself, with the Argentine jocularly saying that he's the best ever as his mother Armando used to think the same