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Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League (CFL, Ligue canadienne de football): nine-team Canadian professional football league founded 1958, playing 12-a-side, three-down football on a 110x65-yard field; championship is the Grey Cup.
Canadian Grand Prix
Canadian Grand Prix (Grand Prix du Canada), Formula 1 race first run for the championship in 1967 at Mosport; held since 1978 at the 4.361 km Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Montreal, contracted through 2035.
Canadian Hockey League
Canadian Hockey League (CHL), major junior hockey body founded May 8, 1975 in Kitchener as the CMJHL, uniting the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL; 61 teams, Memorial Cup champion since 1972 format, and leading NHL talent supplier.
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (CHRHF), founded 1976, a charity at Woodbine Racetrack honouring Canadian Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing; 44-member inaugural class, annual August inductions, Legend category, 14-member 50th Anniversary Class of 2026.
Canadian Junior Football League
Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL), amateur Canadian football league for players aged 17-22 in five provinces; teams compete for the Canadian Bowl; formed as a separate entity in 1974.
Canadian Open (golf)
The Canadian Open, currently played as the RBC Canadian Open, is Canada's national open golf championship, contested annually on the PGA Tour since 1904 and third oldest after the Opens.
Canadian Open (tennis)
Canadian Open (National Bank Open presented by Rogers, Omnium Banque Nationale): annual WTA 1000 and ATP Masters 1000 hard-court tennis tournament alternating between Toronto and Montreal since 1881, with 96-player draws.
Canadian Premier League
Canadian Premier League (CPL), Canada's Tier 1 men's professional soccer league; launched April 27, 2019 with seven clubs, eight clubs in 2026, 28-match season, CPL Shield and North Star Cup, Concacaf Champions Cup berths.
Canadian Rally Championship
The Canadian Rally Championship (CRC) is Canada's national performance rally series, sanctioned by the Canadian Association of Rallysport (CARS), with national rounds qualifying for the North American Rally Cup.
Canadian Ski Patrol
The Canadian Ski Patrol, formerly the Canadian Ski Patrol System, is a Canadian non-profit volunteer organization providing advanced first aid at ski areas and other events since 1941.
Canadian Soccer Association
Canadian Soccer Association (Canada Soccer), founded 1912 as Dominion of Canada Football Association, is Canada's FIFA and Concacaf soccer governing body with about 1 million registered players, 1,200 clubs, 13 member associations, and co-hosting of the 2026 World Cup.
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (formerly Mosport) is a 2.459-mile, 10-turn road racing circuit in Bowmanville, Ontario, opened 1961, host of the first Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in 1967 and IMSA and NASCAR Canada events.
Canalino
Canalino, Italian for small channel or gully, names Alpine ski runs and couloirs such as the Canalino Sertorelli on Bormio's Stelvio, the red Canalino piste at Livigno, plus a Lombard hamlet and a Carpinteria, California school.
Canasta
Canasta: rummy-family partnership card game invented 1939 in Montevideo, Uruguay, by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato; played with 108 cards, melds, and seven-card canastas; US craze of the early 1950s.
Canberra Raiders
Canberra Raiders, the Green Machine, Canberra-based NRL rugby league club admitted to the NSWRL in 1981, first season 1982; premierships 1989, 1990, 1994; minor premiers 1990 and 2025; home ground GIO Stadium.
Candace Parker
Candace Parker (born 1986) is an American retired basketball player, 2008 No. 1 pick, three-time WNBA champion with three franchises, two-time MVP, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Naismith Hall of Fame Class of 2026 inductee.
Candice LeRae
Candice LeRae (Candice Gargano, born 1985) is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE. PWG World Tag Team Champion with Joey Ryan, NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Indi Hartwell, and first-ever WWE Women's Speed Champion.
Candice Michelle
Candice Michelle (Candice Beckman), American model, actress, and retired WWE wrestler; 2004 Diva Search contestant, GoDaddy Super Bowl XXXIX girl, WWE Women's Champion June-October 2007, later 24/7 Champion, now a TNA producer.
Candidates Tournament
The FIDE Candidates Tournament (since 1950, Budapest) is chess's final world championship qualifier: eight grandmasters, double round-robin, fourteen classical rounds; the winner challenges the reigning World Champion. Alternated tournaments and matches; suspended 1993–2007 after the PCA split.
Candidates Tournament 2018
Candidates Tournament 2018 (Kandidatenturnier Berlin 2018): eight-player double round robin in Berlin, 10–28 March 2018, won by Fabiano Caruana with +4, earning a World Championship match against Magnus Carlsen in London.
Candidates Tournament 2022
Candidates Tournament 2022, FIDE Candidates, Madrid: eight-player double round robin, June 16–July 5, 2022, Palacio de Santoña; Ian Nepomniachtchi won his second straight Candidates, Ding Liren second, Radjabov third, €500,000 prize fund.
Candidates Tournament 2024
FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024, Toronto, April 3-23, 2024; first Candidates in North America and first joint Open and Women's event. Gukesh Dommaraju, 17, youngest-ever winner; Tan Zhongyi won the Women's section.
Candidates Tournament 2026
FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026, held March 28 to April 16 at Cap St Georges, Pegeia, Cyprus; eight-player double round-robin. Javokhir Sindarov won the Open with a record 10/14; Vaishali won the Women's event, earning matches against Gukesh and Ju Wenjun.
Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex, born 1982 in La Clusaz, France, is a French freeskier nicknamed the Flying Frenchman, X Games gold medalist (2000, 2003), 2010 Freeride World Tour champion, and maker of the Few Words film and One of Those Days video series.
Candlepin bowling
Candlepin bowling, a New England and Canadian Maritimes sport invented in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1880, uses a 2 lb 7 oz fingerless ball, 15¾-inch candle-shaped pins, three balls per frame, and live dead wood; top sanctioned score 245.
Candlestick Park
Candlestick Park ('The Stick', 3Com Park, Monster Park) was San Francisco's bayside stadium, home of the Giants 1960–1999 and 49ers 1971–2013, infamous for wind, fog, and cold, site of the Beatles' last concert and the 1989 earthquake World Series, demolished 2015 for housing.
Candra Wijaya
Candra Wijaya (Rafael Candra Wijaya), Indonesian badminton men's doubles player born 1975 in Cirebon; 2000 Sydney Olympic gold with Tony Gunawan, 1997 world champion, later academy founder.
Candy Bauer
Candy Bauer (Arndt Bauer), German bobsledder born 1986 in Zschopau, brakeman/push athlete in Francesco Friedrich's four-man crew; double Olympic gold (2018, 2022), five world titles, retired 2024.
Candy Costie
Candy Costie (Candace Costie, later Burke and Merrill), American synchronized swimmer born 1963 in Seattle; with Tracie Ruiz won the first Olympic synchronized swimming gold, the 1984 duet, in 195.584 points; ISHOF 1995.
Candy Crush Saga
Candy Crush Saga is King's free-to-play match-three puzzle game, launched on Facebook in Q2 2012 and mobile in Q4 2012. Known for 18,700+ levels, $20 billion lifetime revenue, aggressive in-app purchases, and NP-hard puzzle complexity.