Category Archives: Sports

LOS ANGELES - A tennis commentator dropped by ESPN for a remark about Venus Williams during the Australian Open sued the sports network Tuesday for wrongful termination. Former tennis pro Doug Adler m...

DUNEDIN, Fla. - Six months after cracking the Blue Jays’ major-league roster, Joe Biagini had a dream he was back in spring training as an unknown pitcher trying to prove himself. He still has t...

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack will make their debut at Siddal in the third round of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup later this month. The fledgling Canadian rugby league team will play either Feb. 25 or ...

HAMILTON - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats bolstered their secondary with the signing of free-agent American defensive back Abdul Kanneh on Tuesday. Kanneh spent the last three seasons with the Ottawa Redblac...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders made a huge splash in CFL free agency Tuesday. The Riders landed American offensive lineman Derek Dennis, the CFL’s outstanding lineman last season. The mov...

ADELAIDE, Australia - Brooke Henderson expects her hard work in 2016 is going to pay off in the new LPGA season. Henderson tees off at the Women’s Australian Open on Wednesday, looking to build ...

ATLANTA - More than a week after the Falcons fell victim to the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history, an Atlanta zoo has named a cockroach after Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Zoo Atlanta says on i...

Long before he became a charming cult hero, Jaromir Jagr was the NHL’s No. 1 villain. He was probably the best player in the world at that point in 2001 - the first since Wayne Gretzky to lead t...

BOSTON - Jury selection is underway in ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez’s second murder trial. The former New England Patriots tight end already is serving a life sentence with no possibility of paro...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Tampa Bay’s Jake Odorizzi, Houston’s Collin McHugh and Toronto’s Marcus Stroman won their salary arbitration cases Tuesday, and St. Louis’ Michael Wacha,...