Category Archives: Sports
Los Angeles, Paris await Olympic inspectors in 2024 race
GENEVA - Los Angeles and Paris, both already seen as winning options for the 2024 Games, await their Olympic inspectors this week. The cities will host three-day visits by an International Olympic Com...
May 08, 2017
Australian rules football great Lou Richards dies at 94
SYDNEY, Australia - Lou Richards, one of the first superstars in Australian rules football, has died, his former club said Monday. He was 94. Richards played for Collingwood from 1941-55. He was induc...
May 08, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Sunday’s Games NHL Playoffs Second Round Edmonton 7 Anaheim 1 (Series tied 3-3) Nashville 3 St. Louis 1 (Predators win series 4-2) — IIHF World Hockey Championship Canada 7 Slovenia 2 Russ...
May 07, 2017
Sunday's Games
Sunday’s Games NHL Playoffs Second Round Edmonton 7 Anaheim 1 (Series tied 3-3) Nashville 3 St. Louis 1 (Predators win series 4-2) — IIHF World Hockey Championship Canada 7 Slovenia 2 Russ...
May 07, 2017
Harden, Rockets rout Spurs 125-104 to tie series
HOUSTON - After fighting through a terrible chest cold for the last few days, James Harden finally felt like himself on Sunday night. “I can finally breathe,” Harden said. And the Houston ...
May 07, 2017
Bad first period start hurts Ducks in loss to Oilers to force Game 7
EDMONTON - Ryan Getzlaf pointed out exactly to when things started to go wrong in the Anaheim Ducks’ 7-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday in Game 6 of their Western Conference semifinal ser...
May 07, 2017
Wizards use 26-0 run to rout Celtics in Game 4, tie series
WASHINGTON - It wasn’t enough for the Washington Wizards to force turnover after another and make baskets every time down the floor to take a lead over the Boston Celtics. They wanted to blow th...
May 07, 2017
Edmonton Oilers force Anaheim Ducks to a Game 7 with a 7-1 victory
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers are forcing the Anaheim Ducks to face their Game 7 playoff demons. Their Western Conference semifinal is going the distance after Edmonton’s decisive 7-1 victory S...
May 07, 2017
Grudge match: Sharapova to play Bouchard in Madrid
MADRID - Maria Sharapova’s reward for advancing to the second round of the Madrid Open on Sunday is a match against Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard, one of the most outspoken players against the...
May 07, 2017
Raptors feel the pain of a Cleveland sweep, wonder what might have been
TORONTO - Dressing at his locker-room stall Sunday, Toronto centre Jonas Valanciunas politely asked a scrum of waiting media to clear a space. Once they moved aside, he fired his towel into the no-lon...
May 07, 2017
