Category Archives: Sports
IOC calms concern about 2018 Winter Olympics amid North Korea tension
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Responding to France’s sports minister raising security risks at the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, the IOC has tried to calm concern about the Pyeongchang Games in Februa...
Sep 22, 2017
NHL reportedly plans to have independent doctor assess health of Leafs' Lupul.
TORONTO - The NHL reportedly plans to have an independent doctor assess the health of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul. Lupul will undergo an independent exam to determine if he is healthy en...
Sep 22, 2017
No. 1 draft pick Nico Hischier scores in New Jersey's 4-1 win over Montreal
MONTREAL - Canadiens coach Claude Julien says making cuts throughout training camp haven’t been as difficult as he expected. Julien was left unimpressed by several of his young players after Mon...
Sep 22, 2017
Vargas and four relievers combine on two-hit shutout as Royals top Blue Jays 1-0
TORONTO - The rather staid Rogers Centre crowd briefly came to life in the ninth inning Thursday when Toronto’s Jose Bautista stepped into the box in a one-run game against Kansas City reliever ...
Sep 22, 2017
Hamilton supporters group ready for soccer and Canadian Premier League
TORONTO - While the Canadian Premier League is still taking shape, James Hutton is well ahead of the game. Hutton is president of the Barton Street Battalion, a supporters group preparing for the retu...
Sep 22, 2017
Girl hit by foul ball at Yankees game gets game's attention
NEW YORK - It might be the shot heard around the baseball world: the rocket-like foul ball that hit a young girl at a New York Yankees game. In the hours after the girl was struck in the face by the 1...
Sep 22, 2017
Banned from tennis, Nastase starts new career as diplomat
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Ilie Nastase is taking on a new role as a diplomat for the Czech Republic. The Romanian tennis great has been banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years becau...
Sep 22, 2017
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games NFL L.A. Rams 41 San Francisco 39 — MLB American League Cleveland 4 L.A. Angels 1 Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 1 Toronto 0 Minnesota 12 Detroit 1 Chicago White Sox ...
Sep 22, 2017
First-timers and familiar faces hop on NHL's coaching carousel
When the Boston Bruins fired Claude Julien in February, Joel Quenneville took over as the longest-serving NHL head coach. Hired in Oct. 2008, Quenneville enters his 10th season with the Chicago Blackh...
Sep 22, 2017
Are rewards in the cards for Dallas, the NHL's biggest off-season gambler?
The cards began stacking against the Dallas Stars before the 2016-17 season even got underway. Team captain Jamie Benn got hurt late in the off-season, Tyler Seguin went down a few weeks later, and th...
Sep 22, 2017