Category Archives: Sports
Texan wins glove nearly 60 years after baseball card contest
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A candy company has stuck to its word and sent a Texas man a Louisville Slugger glove nearly 60 years after a bubble gum and baseball card contest began. Darwin Day, 70, of Gran...
Sep 14, 2016
McDavid, Laine and Burns among the intriguing talents to watch in Toronto
Connor McDavid is still just a teenager, but he might be the single biggest draw at a World Cup tournament featuring hockey’s best. A look at an intriguing talent from each of the eight teams co...
Sep 14, 2016
Team Canada embraces win-or-bust mentality at World Cup of Hockey
Canada not only won the last battle for international hockey supremacy, but owned it. The Canadians rarely had to defend at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi because they hogged the puck so much. They spent ...
Sep 14, 2016
A closer look at each of the 23 players representing Canada at the World Cup
Canada will have a vastly different look at the first World Cup of Hockey in 12 years, as Joe Thornton is the only remaining member from the championship-winning 2004 roster. A closer look at the 37-y...
Sep 14, 2016
Reigning MVP Donaldson out of Blue Jays lineup for third straight game vs. Rays
TORONTO - Reigning American League MVP Josh Donaldson was still awaiting results from an MRI he had on his injured right hip when he first spoke to reporters about it on Wednesday. But the Blue Jays t...
Sep 14, 2016
Monfils ruled out of Davis Cup semifinal against Croatia
PARIS - Gael Monfils has been ruled out of France’s Davis Cup semifinal in Croatia this week. Coming off the U.S. Open semifinals, Monfils was hampered by a knee problem, the French Tennis Feder...
Sep 14, 2016
Canada's Chernove adds third medal of Paralympics, gold in cycling time trial
RIO DE JANEIRO - Canadian cyclist Tristen Chernove is at his best when he’s sailing along at 40 kilometres an hour under the soothing heat of the sun. Life is about as close as it can be to perf...
Sep 14, 2016
Platini era ends as UEFA elects little-known Ceferin as head
ATHENS, Greece - Michel Platini reluctantly handed over the reins of power in European soccer to Aleksander Ceferin, a little-known Slovenian lawyer who won the UEFA presidential election by a landsli...
Sep 14, 2016
Tuesday's Games
Tuesday’s Games CONCACAF Champions League Vancouver 2 Kansas City 1 — World Cup of Hockey Exhibition At Washington, D.C. Team USA 3 Team Finland 2 — MLB American Tampa Bay 6 Toronto ...
Sep 14, 2016
15-year-old Alphonso Davies scores in stoppage time, Whitecaps advance
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The Vancouver Whitecaps clinched a spot in the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals after defeating Sporting Kansas City 2-1 on Tuesday. Alphonso Davies pushed the Whitecaps th...
Sep 13, 2016