Category Archives: Sports
Social club set new bocce playing record
AVON, Conn. - An Italian-American social club in Connecticut has set a record for the longest stretch of playing bocce. Members of the Prince Thomas of Savoy Club in Avon announced on its Facebook Thu...
Nov 9, 2017
Cowboys' Elliott loses appeal; ineligible to play Sunday
NEW YORK - Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott’s half-season run from his six-game suspension ended Thursday when a federal appeals court refused to let him play while it considers his a...
Nov 9, 2017
Canada's Kaillie Humphries opens World Cup bobsled with win
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Kaillie Humphries went to bobsled school in Lake Placid. She apparently paid attention in class. The two-time reigning Olympic champion from Canada got her season off to a winning ...
Nov 9, 2017
Altidore says video backs up his account of BMO Field tunnel melee
Toronto FC striker Jozy Altidore says he knows what happened in the BMO Field tunnel melee and the video backs him up. Altidore and New York Red Bulls captain Sacha Kljestan were ejected after the two...
Nov 9, 2017
Canada's Shapovalov eliminated from Next Gen Finals after loss to Rublev
MILAN - Canada’s Denis Shapovalov dropped his final match at the Next Gen ATP Finals, losing in five sets to Russia’s Andrey Rublev on Thursday. Rublev, the tournament’s top seed, wo...
Nov 9, 2017
Loney Bowl between Saint Mary's and Acadia cancelled due to eligibility issue
WOLFVILLE, N.S. - Atlantic University Sport cancelled the Loney Bowl on Thursday due to a player eligibility issue and awarded the football conference championship to the Acadia Axemen. Acadia was sch...
Nov 9, 2017
Georges St-Pierre to talk to UFC about fighting future after vacation
Newly crowned middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre says he will discuss his fighting future with the UFC after a planned vacation. Right now his contract has him fighting interim middleweight title...
Nov 9, 2017
Mixed martial arts champ Angela Lee in Hawaii car accident
HONOLULU - Angela Lee, a Vancouver-born mixed martial arts fighter, is recovering after a car accident in Hawaii. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported the One Championship female world atomweight cha...
Nov 9, 2017
Olympic champion Whitfield closes chapter with Hall of Fame induction
TORONTO - Simon Whitfield’s love affair with sports began around a pothole on Couper Street in Kingston, Ont. The hole in the road near his childhood home became centre ice, and Whitfield and hi...
Nov 9, 2017
Forward Frederik Gauthier ready to play if injured Auston Matthews isn't
TORONTO - Frederik Gauthier was caught off guard when the Toronto Maple Leafs recalled him so early in the season, especially after spending part of his summer re-learning how to walk. The 22-year-old...
Nov 9, 2017
