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From Kobe to Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports
There were so many this year. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance. It beg...
Dec 29, 2020
Athletes act: Stars rise up against racial injustice in 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY - As the NBA neared its restart in late July, its players vowed to keep the calls for social justice reform at the forefront in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonn...
Dec 29, 2020
Swiss skier Gisin ends Shiffrin-Vlhova winning slalom streak
SEMMERING, Austria - Michelle Gisin earned her maiden World Cup win on Tuesday, becoming the first Swiss skier to win a women's slalom in nearly 19 years. Gisin trailed first-run leader Mikaela Shiffr...
Dec 29, 2020
Skier escapes slide as weak snow sustains avalanche risk in parts of B.C.
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Avalanche Canada has lifted a recent warning about the extreme potential for slides on eastern British Columbia mountains, but backcountry users are urged to remain cautious because...
Dec 29, 2020
Blackhawks C Toews sidelined indefinitely by illness
Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews will miss the start of training camp because of an illness, and there is no timetable for his return. The 32-year-old Toews said Tuesday he has been experienc...
Dec 29, 2020
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
IOWA CITY, Iowa - A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Trump's pardons, including those issued to convicted Republican campaign operatives and fo...
Dec 29, 2020
Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. At the ti...
Dec 29, 2020
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet - optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice - has been removed from its perch in downtow...
Dec 29, 2020
Forward Devin Shore, defenceman Ryan Stanton sign pro tryout contracts with Oilers
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Devin Shore and defenceman Ryan Stanton to professional tryout agreements. The 26-year-old Shore had five goals and seven assists in 45 games last se...
Dec 29, 2020
Alexis Creek RCMP seize guns and drugs while arresting two people on Christmas Eve
ALEXIS CREEK - A report of a suspicious truck parked along Highway 20, turned into police seizure of guns and drugs on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).RCMP say the incident took place near Lee's Corner, appro...
Dec 29, 2020
