Category Archives: Sports
Scotiabank-owned Tangerine to become official bank of Toronto Raptors
TORONTO - Tangerine is set to become the official and exclusive bank of the Toronto Raptors in July in the latest sports-related marketing play by parent company Scotiabank. The partnership announced ...
Jan 31, 2018
AP source: Fox gets Thursday night football for 5 years, $3B
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Fox and the NFL have agreed to a five-year deal for Thursday night football games. Those games previously were televised by CBS and NBC, two of the league’s other network pa...
Jan 31, 2018
Canadian skier Erik Guay to miss the Winter Olympics due to back pain
World champion skier Erik Guay’s dream of an Olympic medal is over. The Montreal native, one of Canada’s top medal hopes in alpine skiing, announced Wednesday that he will miss the Winter ...
Jan 31, 2018
CAS to announce Russian Olympic doping verdicts on Thursday
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russian athletes disqualified from the Olympics for life in the Sochi doping scandal will have their appeal verdicts announced on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration for Sport s...
Jan 31, 2018
Putin to athletes: Ignore doping scandals at Olympics
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the country’s athletes to forget about doping scandals when they compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics. As punishment for what it deemed a doping...
Jan 31, 2018
Jaromir Jagr signs contract with his Czech hometown club
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - NHL great Jaromir Jagr signed a deal Wednesday with a team he owns in the Czech Republic. The move comes a couple days after the Calgary Flames placed the forward on unconditi...
Jan 31, 2018
Vancouver-based MMA champion Bibiano Fernandes to meet double title-holder
Vancouver-based Bibiano (The Flash) Fernandes will defend his One Championship bantamweight title against featherweight and lightweight champion Martin (The Situ-Asian) Nguyen. The two will face off i...
Jan 31, 2018
Scores and Schedule
Tuesday’s Games NHL Carolina 2 Ottawa 1 Winnipeg 3 Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 3 Montreal 1 Vegas 4 Calgary 2 Vancouver 4 Colorado 3 (OT) Minnesota 3 Columbus 2 SO Pittsburgh 5 San Jose 2 Florida 4 N....
Jan 30, 2018
Tuesday's Games
Tuesday’s Games NHL Carolina 2 Ottawa 1 Winnipeg 3 Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 3 Montreal 1 Vegas 4 Calgary 2 Vancouver 4 Colorado 3 (OT) Minnesota 3 Columbus 2 SO Pittsburgh 5 San Jose 2 Florida 4 N....
Jan 30, 2018
Pinpoint Accuracy: Baertschi scores in overtime as Canucks beat Avalanche 4-3
VANCOUVER - Sven Baertschi showed he’s not the only member of the Vancouver Canucks able to pick a corner under pressure. The Swiss winger rifled his 11th goal of the season shortside over Jonat...
Jan 30, 2018
