Category Archives: Sports

CLEVELAND - Kneeling and bowing their heads, the Cleveland Browns bonded over something bigger than football. More than a dozen players formed a circle on the team’s sideline Monday night and pr...

WACO, Texas - A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted is suing Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university shifted blame away from her attacker toward her...

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - Champion chuckwagon driver Kelly Sutherland has retired after more than 50 years controlling the reins of horses as they thundered around the track. Sutherland, who turns 66 th...

LINCOLN, Neb. - Baseball fans in more than a half-dozen cities from Oregon to South Carolina crowded into minor league ballparks Monday to watch the solar eclipse at game-day viewing parties. The Linc...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard defeated American Lauren Davis 6-1, 6-3 in first-round play Monday at the Connecticut Open. Bouchard, the world No. 74 from Westmount, Que., will pla...

NEW YORK - Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka withdrew from the U.S. Open on Monday because she was unable to resolve a custody dispute with her infant son’s father. The 28-year...

TORONTO - Two down, one more to go for Nik Lewis. The veteran receiver began the season fourth on the CFL’s all-time reception list behind Hall of Famers Terry Vaughn (1,006), Ben Cahoon (1,017)...

DALLAS - A rendering by Norman Rockwell of one of his best known baseball-themed paintings has sold at auction for $1.6 million. The work was a study, or a preliminary work, for Rockwell’s ̶...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - The players from Venezuela look as happy as any other team, dancing to “Shake Your Groove Thing” with the tournament mascot before a win over Mexico and raising t...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana State University officially has a new live tiger mascot on its campus. The tiger arrived in Baton Rouge last week, coming from a rescue facility in Okeechobee, Florida. Th...