Category Archives: Sports

DENVER - The Los Angeles Dodgers have optioned Yasiel Puig and Ross Stripling to the minors to make room for their new additions, outfielder Josh Reddick and reliever Jesse Chavez. Los Angeles told Pu...

The Las Vegas expansion NHL team has done what Mike Babcock and the Toronto Maple Leafs couldn’t. Las Vegas has yet to play, let alone win, a game, but the franchise succeeded in convincing juni...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes signed defensive end John Bowman to a contract extension through the 2017 season Tuesday. The six-foot-three, 250-pound Bowman has registered a club-record 106 sacks ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Volleyball player Gavin Schmitt says his bed in the Olympic athletes’ village fits his six-foot-10 body just fine. “It’s long enough,” the Saskatoon native sai...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers named Keith Gretzky as their assistant general manager Tuesday. Gretzky replaces Bill Scott, who’s now the club’s Director of Salary Cap Management and assis...

WINNIPEG - Andrew Harris isn’t buying the suggestion Matt Nichols was first-time lucky in his 2016 debut at the controls of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Nichols had 304 yards passing and a touchdo...

TORONTO - Danny Nykoluk, a former standout offensive lineman with the Toronto Argonauts, has died at the age of 82. The Argos announced Tuesday that Nykoluk, a Toronto native, died Friday. The cause o...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A 21-year-old Buffalo woman has sued Sabres forward Evander Kane, saying he seriously injured her in the hotel room where he lives. Documents filed July 1 in Erie County State Supreme ...

Matt Nichols and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers face a huge challenge. Nichols threw for 304 yards and a TD in his 2016 debut last week, leading the Bombers to a 30-23 victory over the defending Grey Cup-c...

VANCOUVER - Alex Bazzie said there was only one way to think in order to help him get through the most unique role of his time with the B.C. Lions, one the third-year defensive hopes never to repeat. ...