Champions Live Here as summer schedule heats up on TSN
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At TSN, Champions Live Here and that’s never been truer with a busy summer filled with a variety of competitions across the spectrum.
Here’s a look at some of what’s going on across the network as the summer continues.
Youth movement takes hold in WNBA
Led by established superstars like Napheesa Collier and A’ja Wilson, along with second-year stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, as well as impressive rookies in Paige Bueckers, Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen, the 2025 WNBA season has already featured a number of memorable moments as teams jockey for position as the playoff race heats up.
While Collier and the Minnesota Lynx have established themselves as the class of the league, thus far, the Phoenix Mercury, the defending champion New York Liberty and a resurgent Seattle Storm are nipping at their heels and putting their championship credentials on display.
Canadian basketball is represented by a trio of players in the WNBA this season. Veteran guard – and TSN basketball analyst – Kia Nurse of Hamilton, Ont. joined Reese and the Chicago Sky in the off-season. After losing in last year’s WNBA Finals, Chatham, Ont.’s Bridget Carleton is a key contributor to the Lynx effort to get back to another championship. The sixth overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, Kingston, Ont.’s Aaliyah Edwards was acquired by the Connecticut Sun at the WNBA Trade Deadline and will be a part of the team's future.
This WNBA season also acts as a table-setter for a 2026 campaign that will see the league expand by two, including its first venture across the border. Joining the league next season will be the Portland Fire and the Toronto Tempo. The Tempo will play out of Coca-Cola Coliseum, the home of the American Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies and the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres.
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Julia Schell Canada Canada eyes glory at Women's Rugby World Cup
The rugby world turns its eyes to England at the end of August as the 2025 Women’s World Cup gets underway. It’s the 10th edition of the quadrennial competition with matches to be played in eight different cities and the final set for London’s famed Twickenham Stadium. The world’s 16 best sides – including World No. 2 Canada – are divided into four groups.
Canada has appeared at every World Cup to date and is once again a serious contender to claim its first title. The Canadians head into the tournament with the third-best odds behind only World No. 1 England and defending champions New Zealand. At the 2021 tournament in New Zealand, Canada fell in the semi-finals to England by a score of 26-19 before getting shut out 36-0 by France in the third-place match. To date, Canada’s best-ever finish at a World Cup came in 2014 when they were beaten 21-9 by England in the final.
With much of Canada’s squad plying their club trades in England, the team will be competing on familiar territory. Several players on the squad play in the Premiership Women’s Rugby, one of the top leagues in the world. Among Canada’s star players are No. 8 Sophie de Goede of Victoria, B.C., back row Laetitia Royer of Loretteville, Que. and Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton, Que. fly half Alex Tessier.
Canada is set for action in Pool B where they will take on Scotland, Wales and Fiji with their first match scheduled for Aug. 23 in York. Historically, Canada has played two of these three teams very well with the other, Fiji, being only a one-time opponent. Against Scotland, Canada is 6-0-1 all-time and is 10-2-2 versus Wales. In their lone match against Fiji, Canada emerged victorious in 2022.
The 2025 Rugby Women’s World Cup Final is set for Saturday, Sept. 27.
Brooke Henderson LPGA heads into the only Canadian stop
TSN is your home for the lone Canadian tournament on the 2025 LPGA calendar, as later in the month, the LPGA comes to Mississauga, Ont. for for the CPKC Women’s Open. Since its inception in 1973. Some of the biggest names in golf have claimed the tournament including Hall of Famers Juli Inkster (1984), Laura Davies (1996), Karrie Webb (1999), Annika Sorenstam (2001) and three-time winner Meg Mallon (2000, 2002 and 2004). The only other three-time winner of the tournament is Ko.
In 2018 at Wascana Country Club in Regina, Henderson became the first Canadian to win the tournament since the late Jocelyne Bourassa won the inaugural edition in 1973. Henderson held off Angel Yin by four strokes to win what was then her seventh career victory. The 2019 ESPY Female Golfer of the Year is looking for her first tournament win since the 2023 Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions.
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WTA marches towards US Open
The world’s best tennis players continue their march to the final Grand Slam event of the season in the US Open with a busy summer schedule that includes the Mubadala Citi DC Open and the Cincinnati Open.
It has been an incredible season so far for Charlotte, NC-born and Toronto-raised Victoria Mboko. After reaching the first final of her young career at the Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma this past May and participating in her first ever Grand Slam tournaments, Mboko was crowned Champion at the WTA National Bank Open in Montreal earlier this month. She knocked off four Grand Slam title winners along the way and has vaulted all the way from 334th to 24th in the World rankings.
Elsewhere, Montreal’s Leylah Fernandez is still looking for her first tour victory this season. The 22-year-old Fernandez last won at the 2023 Hong Kong Open and is in search of her first career Grand Slam title.
Other Canadians in WTA action this year include 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu, veteran Rebecca Marino and 24-year-old Carson Branstine, who is the cousin of Los Angeles Dodgers and Team Canada superstar Freddie Freeman.
One of the bigger stories this season heading in to the US Open has been the resurgence of American tennis with Madison Keys claiming the Australian Open, Coco Gauff victorious at Roland-Garros and Amanda Anisimova finishing as runner-up to Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon. Jessica Pegula, McCartney Kessler, Catherine McNally and 17-year-old Iva Jovic have also won tournaments this season. An American has won the US Open just twice in the past 10 tournaments (Gauff in 2023 and Sloane Stephens in 2017).