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Raptors pick up team options on centre Poeltl, forward Siakam, guard Wright
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have picked up the third-year team options on the contracts of centre Jakob Poeltl and forward Pascal Siakam and the fourth-year team option on the contract of guard Delo...
Oct 17, 2017
Woods cleared for golf activities with no restrictions
Tiger Woods is swinging a driver without pain, and his agent says doctors have cleared him to practice without limitations. Still to be determined is when Woods can play in a tournament. “We hav...
Oct 17, 2017
CFL player Campbell looking forward to rejoining Canadian rugby sevens squad
Tevaughn Campbell won’t have long to dwell upon the Montreal Alouettes’ disappointing 2017 season. Montreal (3-12) will miss the CFL playoffs for a third straight year. But not long after ...
Oct 17, 2017
New York consortium wants to follow rugby league footsteps of Toronto Wolfpack
Following the footsteps of the Toronto Wolfpack, a consortium has announced plans for a rugby league team in the New York area. Tom Scott and Ricky Wilby, speaking for the group, hope to become rugby&...
Oct 17, 2017
Lawmaker: Mascot wrong to rally for kneeling cheerleaders
KENNESAW, Ga. - The student who wears the owl mascot costume at a Georgia public university where five cheerleaders knelt during the national anthem had no business leading a cross-campus march in sup...
Oct 17, 2017
Canadian women's team defenceman Tara Watchorn announces retirement
CALGARY - Defenceman Tara Watchorn, who won an Olympic gold medal with Canada’s women’s hockey team at the Sochi Olympics, announced her retirement from international competition on Monday...
Oct 17, 2017
Rick Pitino out at Louisville as expected amid federal probe
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Rick Pitino has been able to roam the sidelines as Louisville’s iconic men’s basketball coach, even defiantly at times, holding onto his job amid a series of highly embar...
Oct 17, 2017
Judge, Sabathia help Yankees beat Astros 8-1, trail ALCS 2-1
NEW YORK - Back in the Bronx, the big guys delivered. Greeted by an array of “All Rise” signs in a ballpark that fits their style, Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer and made a pair of spar...
Oct 17, 2017
Chris Paul's free agency decision becomes a documentary
Chris Paul had a new home in Los Angeles and the potential for a $200 million contract if he stayed with the Clippers. He also had reason to doubt a championship would ever come there. So sometime bet...
Oct 17, 2017
Jaguars apologize to local military for anthem demonstration
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Jaguars have apologized to local military leaders for demonstrating during the national anthem in London last month. Jaguars President Mark Lamping sent a letter ...
Oct 17, 2017