Category Archives: Sports
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
California hits Gatorade in court for "anti-water" videogame
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gatorade has agreed not to make disparaging comments about water as part of a $300,000 settlement reached Thursday with California over allegations it misleadingly portrayed water...
Sep 21, 2017
Former Dodgers star Mondesi sentenced to 8 years in prison
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Raul Mondesi has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of embezzlement during his term as mayor of his homet...
Sep 21, 2017
Bobmers defence expecting to be tested third-string Redblacks QB
WINNIPEG - Maurice Leggett and Jackson Jeffcoat aren’t salivating at the thought of going up against a third-string quarterback on Friday. The Blue Bombers are hosting an Ottawa Redblacks squad ...
Sep 21, 2017