Category Archives: CP_Sports
Judge, Bellinger unanimous picks as Rookies of the Year
The only major question was whether it would be unanimous - and it was. Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger are baseball’s Rookies of the Year, after their record-setting home run binges left no need...
Nov 13, 2017
Arrivederci Italy: Azzurri lose World Cup playoff to Sweden
MILAN - Players from both teams slumped to the ground, the Swedes in exhausted ecstasy, the Italians in losers’ agony. On a starry night in Milan, four-time champion Italy failed to qualify for ...
Nov 13, 2017
Beltran retires at 40 after winning 1st World Series title
HOUSTON - It took quite some time, but Carlos Beltran finally got there, winning a World Series title after 20 seasons in the majors. Now he is leaving the Houston Astros and leaving baseball, retirin...
Nov 13, 2017
French downhill skier David Poisson dies in training crash at Nakiska
PARIS - French downhill skier David Poisson, a former medallist at the world championships, died on Monday following a training crash in Canada. He was 35. The French Ski Federation said Poisson, who ...
Nov 13, 2017
Rugby Canada parts ways with general manager, restructures front office
Rugby Canada, whose flagship men’s 15s team has been moving backwards in recent times, shook up its structure Monday. The governing body fired its top rugby man in Jim Dixon, its general manager...
Nov 13, 2017
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge named American League rookie of the year
NEW YORK - Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger have been voted unanimously as baseball’s Rookies of the Year after their record-setting home run binges lifted the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dod...
Nov 13, 2017
Ex-football player charged with murder in wife's death
SALT LAKE CITY - A former CFL player sliced his wife’s neck and then crawled on the ground outside their rented Utah condominium before flagging down a police officer, prosecutors said in murder...
Nov 13, 2017
UN urges countries to stop conflicts during winter Olympics
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution by acclamation Monday urging all countries to stop hostilities and observe a truce during the upcoming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea - a m...
Nov 13, 2017
Braves hire former Dodgers, Blue Jays exec Anthopoulos as GM
ATLANTA - The remake of the Atlanta Braves’ management was completed Monday when Alex Anthopoulos was named general manager and John Hart was removed as team president. Anthopoulos, a former Dod...
Nov 13, 2017
Lake Louise men's World Cup downhill a go after 2016 cancellation
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - The men’s World Cup downhill in Lake Louise, Alta., has been given the green light a year after warm weather wiped out the race. FIS, the world governing body of skiing, con...
Nov 13, 2017