Category Archives: Sports
Jones named Ticats head coach; Austin remains VP of football operations
Hamilton Tiger-Cats vice-president of football operations Kent Austin removed himself as head coach of the winless CFL team Thursday and appointed assistant coach June Jones to take over. The announce...
Aug 24, 2017
Marina Alex shoots opening round of 5 under, takes early lead at CP Women's Open
OTTAWA - Playing professional golf isn’t that much different from having a standard 9-5 job. There’s a similar litany of problems. In the first round of the CP Women’s Open, it was a...
Aug 24, 2017
Street-running body tells Olympic gymnastics to back off
GENEVA - Global organizers of street-running known as parkour have set the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) a deadline to end attempts to control their sport and give it Olympic status. Parko...
Aug 24, 2017
Philadelphia Eagles fan gets last laugh with obituary
PORT REPUBLIC, N.J. - A New Jersey man took a parting shot at the Philadelphia Eagles in his obituary. Jeffrey Riegel, 56, died last Friday. Before his death, the Port Republic, New Jersey, man promis...
Aug 24, 2017
Scores and Schedule
Wednesday’s Games MLB American League Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 6 Baltimore 8 Oakland 7 (12 innings) Boston 6 Cleveland 1 N.Y. Yankees 10 Detroit 2 Chicago White Sox 4 Minnesota 3 Texas 7 L.A. Angels ...
Aug 23, 2017
Wednesday's Games
Wednesday’s Games MLB American League Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 6 Baltimore 8 Oakland 7 (12 innings) Boston 6 Cleveland 1 N.Y. Yankees 10 Detroit 2 Chicago White Sox 4 Minnesota 3 Texas 7 L.A. Angels ...
Aug 23, 2017
Montero haunts former team once again as 10-man Whitecaps draw Sounders 1-1
VANCOUVER - Fredy Montero continues to haunt his former club. The Vancouver striker scored against Seattle for the third time in two games this season as the 10-man Whitecaps salvaged a 1-1 draw with ...
Aug 23, 2017
Canada's Milos Raonic withdraws from US Open due to wrist injury
Canada’s Milos Raonic announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday night that he has withdrawn from the US Open tennis tournament with a left wrist injury. Raonic, who grew up in Thornhill, Ont.,...
Aug 23, 2017
Pillar hits Toronto's 6th HR, Blue Jays beat Rays 7-6
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Even in a down year, the Toronto Blue Jays are as capable of going deep as any team in baseball. They showed that off Wednesday night. Kevin Pillar hit Toronto’s sixth hom...
Aug 23, 2017
Hill loses no-hit try on HR in 10th, Pirates top Dodgers 1-0
PITTSBURGH - Rich Hill’s first 98 pitches left the Pittsburgh Pirates confounded, occasionally fuming and absolutely hitless. His 99th turned a potentially historic night by the Los Angeles Dodg...
Aug 23, 2017
