Category Archives: Sports

GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency on Thursday chose as a goodwill ambassador a Syrian teenage girl who helped save a boat carrying fellow refugees and later became an Olympic swimmer. Yusra Mardini joi...

ISTANBUL - If Eugenie Bouchard had her way, Maria Sharapova would have been banned from tennis for life. The 2014 Wimbledon finalist from Westmount, Que., called Sharapova a cheater upon the Russian&#...

NEW YORK - ESPN is laying off about 100 employees, including former athletes-turned-broadcasters Trent Dilfer, Len Elmore and Danny Kanell, in a purge designed to focus the sports network on a more di...

Wednesday’s Games NHL Playoffs Second Round Edmonton 5 Anaheim 3 (Oilers lead series 1-0) Nashville 4 St. Louis 3 (Predators lead series 1-0) — AHL Playoffs First Round (best-of-five) Toro...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Adam Larsson doesn’t think much of his shot, at least that’s the way teammate Mark Letestu tells it. The shocked crowd at Honda Center would probably disagree with that a...

ST. LOUIS - One nifty little flip by Vernon Fiddler provided a big lift for the Nashville Predators on a rough night. Fiddler scored with 5:05 left and P.K. Subban had a goal and two assists, powering...

ST. LOUIS - Nashville forward Kevin Fiala was taken off the ice on a stretcher after he hurt his left leg during Game 1 of the Predators’ second-round series against St. Louis on Wednesday night...

NEW YORK - Toronto’s Mike Babcock, Edmonton’s Todd McLellan and Columbus’ John Tortorella are the finalists for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL coach of the year. Members of the NHL ...

LONDON - For only the third time in its 135-year existence, Tottenham is enjoying an eight-match winning run in the league after edging past Crystal Palace 1-0 on Wednesday. Those runs in the 1950-51 ...

STUTTGART, Germany - Looking relieved, Maria Sharapova went through her familiar routine of waving to the crowd and blowing kisses after winning her first match on her return from a 15-month doping ba...