Category Archives: Sports

TORONTO - Darrell K. Smith, a former receiver with the Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Eskimos, has died. He was 55. The Argos confirmed Tuesday that Smith died on Monday night of cancer. Smith spent e...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks dipped into free agency to replenish their solid receiving corps. According to a league source, Ottawa signed Kenny Shaw on Tuesday, less than two hours after the noon ET...

AUBURN, Ala. - Auburn University is once again replacing its landmark oak trees at Toomer’s Corner. A university statement says workers will plant new trees on Saturday because of damage caused ...

LAKELAND, Fla. - Winter is over - in baseball, at least. Fifteen major league teams have their first scheduled workouts for pitchers and catchers Tuesday in Florida and Arizona, including the Justin V...

MONTREAL - Canada will host Kazakhstan in the next round of the Fed Cup women’s tennis competition. The World Group II playoff tie is set for April 22-23, the International Tennis Federation sai...

In the geologic timeline of the NHL’s 100 years, the goalie mask is a somewhat recent artifact. Despite a brief flirtation in 1930, the league did not embrace safety face ware until 1959 and all...

TORONTO - Even when Patrick Chan is at the top of his physical game, his mental one is a crapshoot. “Usually when I have a good skate, I’m not quite sure how it happened,” Chan mused...

MADRID - Diego Maradona couldn’t do much on the field to keep Napoli from being eliminated by Real Madrid the last time the teams met in a European competition. Almost 30 years later, though, he...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan’s top sports official says the country’s biathletes passed doping tests following a police raid which seized medical equipment and drugs at the world champi...

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland - France beat Slovakia in the team event final to win its first medal at the ski world championships on Tuesday. The quartet of Adeline Baud Mugnier, Mathieu Faivre, Alexis Pin...