| | | Hello, these are your top stories for Friday, November 01, 2024. Get up-to-date news any time on our website. | | | | | November 1 , 2024 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | Endurance runner Tara Dower smashed one of the toughest records in sport. The Appalachian Trail is the world's longest hiking-only path, at 3,535 kilometres from Maine to Georgia. In September, Dower finished running its entire distance in 40 days, 18 hours and six minutes. | Read more | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 02:00:05 p.m. EDT • : | Canadian women's basketball general manager and high-performance director Denise Dignard recently announced her retirement after 26 years. And with Dignard's exit signals a full rebuild for a team which has missed the knockout round at each of the past two Olympics and lost all three of its games in Paris. | Read more | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 02:34:58 p.m. EDT • : | Canada's Brad Gushue fell 8-4 to Japan's Shinya Abe in the men's semifinals at the Pan Continental curling championship on Thursday night in Lacombe, Alta. | Read more | | | | | November 1 , 2024 at 01:33:44 a.m. EDT • : | Nine games into the Washington Capitals' season, Alex Ovechkin is scoring at a rate that would put him past Wayne Gretzky as soon as this spring. | Read more | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 11:16:36 a.m. EDT • : | This past summer, a WNBA fan stopped Bridget Carleton on the street in Minnesota to reveal a tattoo of the Canadian player's name and jersey number on their arm. It was another example of the league's growing popularity in its most successful season ever. | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like The Buzzer from CBC Sports. Get up to speed on what's happening in sports in five minutes or less. Plus other fun stuff. Delivered right to your inbox, every weekday. Sign up here | | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 03:49:33 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 01:53:50 p.m. EDT • : | | Watch | | | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 11:45:54 a.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | October 31 , 2024 at 12:35:33 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | October 30 , 2024 at 12:04:49 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was forwarded to you. | | | | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/sports throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | |