Category Archives: Sports

Denmark, Leggett help Blue Bombers halt Roughriders' winning streak
WINNIPEG - Maurice Leggett has at least three reasons to always remember the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ 48-28 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday. The veteran linebacker returned a...
Sep 09, 2017

US Open: Nadal-Anderson seems a mismatch, but upsets happen
NEW YORK - U.S. Open finalists Rafael Nadal and Kevin Anderson are both professional tennis players who were born in 1986. Not much else in common. Heading into Sunday’s match - well, mismatch, ...
Sep 09, 2017
Val Sweeting will go for second straight Tour Challenge women's title
REGINA - Val Sweeting will be going for her second straight Tour Challenge title, while on the men’s side there will be a new champion. Sweeting and her rink from Edmonton downed Winnipeg’...
Sep 09, 2017

Stephens tops Keys in US Open final for 1st Grand Slam title
NEW YORK - Sloane Stephens’ remarkably rapid rise from a ranking of 957th in early August to U.S. Open champion on Saturday began with the slow work of coming back from surgery on her left foot....
Sep 09, 2017
Blue Jays to donate portion of Monday's ticket sales to hurricane relief
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays will be making a donation to the Canadian Red Cross hurricane relief efforts across the Caribbean and the United States. The team said in a statement Saturday that it w...
Sep 09, 2017
Chelsea condemns anti-Semitic song about Morata by own fans
LEICESTER, England - Chelsea ordered its fans to stop singing a song about striker Alvaro Morata containing an anti-Semitic lyric that was heard during Saturday’s game at Leicester. The chant re...
Sep 09, 2017
Man City routs Liverpool 5-0, perfect Man United start ends
LONDON - Liverpool went from dishing out a humiliation to being on the receiving end of one. A 5-0 loss at Manchester City on Saturday handed Juergen Klopp his biggest loss in two years managing Liver...
Sep 09, 2017
Froome poised to win his 1st Spanish Vuelta title
ALTO DE L’ANGLIRU, Spain - Chris Froome effectively sealed his first Spanish Vuelta title after maintaining the overall lead on the final competitive stage of the grand tour on Saturday. Froome ...
Sep 09, 2017

Jennings leads Lions over Als 41-18 after B.C. loses Lulay to suspected torn ACL
VANCOUVER - A man of considerable faith, B.C. Lions head coach and general manager Wally Buono wrote a message to Jonathon Jennings containing a bible verse after he benched the struggling quarterback...
Sep 09, 2017
Friday's Games
Friday’s Games CFL B.C. 41 Montreal 18 — MLB American League Detroit 5 Toronto 4 Boston 9 Tampa Bay 3 Cleveland 5 Baltimore 0 Texas 11 N.Y. Yankees 5 Minnesota 8 Kansas City 5 Oakland 9 Ho...
Sep 09, 2017