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The next generation of hockey stars from around the world will get an opportunity to take home a unique piece of hardware at this year's World Junior Hockey Championships — sticks hand-painted by Cree artist Jason Carter.

Cleveland's Major League Baseball team unveiled its new name and logo on Friday, and some Indigenous sports fans hope other teams follow suit.

Five years after Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended sports programs reduce barriers and become more inclusive of Indigenous athletes, a panel of experts says not enough has been done to reach that goal.

The 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) have been postponed until next year, in light of concerns about the novel coronavirus.

Representatives from the Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose hockey teams unveiled special jerseys bearing Indigenous-styled logos on Friday that the players will wear next week. 

At one time, Jordan McCue was down for the count after getting into a bout of fisticuffs that landed him in trouble with the law. Now, the 27-year-old Curve Lake First Nation man is still fighting, but as a professional boxer. 

Kiya Bruno, 13, will be decked out in beaded Blue Jays bling when she walks onto the field at the Rogers Centre Saturday to belt out O Canada in Cree and English.

Montreal's McGill University has announced it will change the name of its men's varsity sports teams — the Redmen — after calls from Indigenous students, faculty and staff saying the name is discriminatory.

Suzanne Fortier, the school's principal and vice-chancellor, says she needs to 'give this important question the time and space that it clearly deserves.'

A Manitoba hockey mom says things turned ugly at a peewee game in Neepawa last weekend between the Neepawa Natives and the Waywayseecappo Wolverines.