Category Archives: Sports

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russian runner Maria Savinova was stripped of her 2012 Olympic gold medal for doping on Friday, putting Caster Semenya in line to become a two-time champion. Savinova, who won ...

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland - On a bitter-sweet day for the home team at the world championships, Wendy Holdener led a 1-2 finish for Switzerland in the combined event and Lara Gut was airlifted from the ...

Thursday’s Games NHL St. Louis 2 Toronto 1 (OT) Ottawa 3 Dallas 2 Vancouver 3 Columbus 0 Montreal 5 Arizona 4 (OT) N.Y. Islanders 3 Philadelphia 1 Washington 6 Detroit 3 N.Y. Rangers 4 Nashville...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Alex Galchenyuk scored 2:13 into overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Coyotes that snapped their four-game losing streak Thursday night. Max Paciore...

OTTAWA - Senators defenceman Dion Phaneuf wanted a big performance after his team dropped back-to-back games by a combined 10 goals. Thursday night he led by example in Ottawa’s 3-2 win over the...

TORONTO - Vladimir Tarasenko strode through the neutral zone, dipped around a Maple Leafs forward, deked out another and then fired a shot past Frederik Andersen to clinch another victory for the sudd...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Blue Jackets talked about gaining some ground in the playoff push in a seven-game homestand that began Thursday night. Instead, they ran into a hot goalie and were shut o...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays finalized one-year deals with left-hander J.P. Howell and right-hander Joe Smith on Thursday. Both contracts are for US$3 million. The 33-year-old Howell pitched for th...

NEW YORK - Charles Oakley maintains he did nothing wrong before he was surrounded by Madison Square Garden security officials. Something has happened, though, to turn him from popular player to person...

HOCHFILZEN, Austria - Julia Ransom, of Kelowna, B.C., Rosanna Crawford, of Canmore, Alta., Brendan Green, of Hay River, N.W.T., and Calgary’s Scott Gow finished 13th on Friday in the mixed relay...