Category Archives: Sports

ZURICH - Three Leicester players will try to end the eight-year grip of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the FIFA player of the year award. Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and N’Golo Kante were n...

EDMONTON - He’ll wear a mic but Mike Reilly might not have much to say Saturday when the Edmonton Eskimos host the Toronto Argonauts. Edmonton (9-8) will know long before kickoff the relative im...

MUNICH - Bayern Munich will play in shirts made of recycled plastic waste collected off the shores of the Maldives when it hosts Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga on Saturday. The shirts were developed by ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long says the university is backing six women’s basketball players who kneeled during the national anthem before an exhibition game Thursday....

FRANKFURT - The German national team will have an audience with soccer-loving Pope Francis as part of a team-building drive before a friendly against Italy. Germany plays San Marino in a World Cup qua...

CHICAGO - Cubs fans are packing downtown Chicago to celebrate the team’s first World Series title in 108 years, but one infamous fan won’t be among them. Steve Bartman has confirmed throug...

Lanni Marchant says she first took up running because she knew where she stood when she crossed the finish line. She knew if she’d won, she knew if she hadn’t. No subjective judging. ̶...

BOSTON - Harvard University suspended its men’s soccer team for the remainder of the season because of sexual comments made about members of the women’s soccer team. University President D...

Thursday’s Games NFL Atlanta 43 Tampa Bay 28 — NHL Toronto 2 Buffalo 1 Washington 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 5 Edmonton 3 Ottawa 1 Vancouver 0 Calgary 3 San Jose 2 Philadelphia 3 N.Y. ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Teen-ager Matthew Tkachuk stayed up late thinking he would be scratched. When he did hear he would play, he got ready in a hurry. Tkachuk recorded his first two-goal game, including...