Category Archives: Sports
Arrieta, Harper, Machado, Britton get big-money deals
NEW YORK - Chicago Cubs ace Jake Arrieta, Washington star Bryce Harper and Baltimore standouts Manny Machado and Zach Britton got big-money deals Friday as more than 100 major leaguers reached agreeme...
Jan 13, 2017
Family says brain of recently deceased rodeo champion to be donated to research
VANCOUVER - The family of a Canadian bull riding champion who was found dead Monday says his brain will be donated to scientific research. Ty Pozzobon, 25, died in his hometown of Merritt, B.C, and lo...
Jan 13, 2017
Patrick Chan looks for confidence boost at Canadian figure skating championship
Making Canadian figure skating history at the national championship isn’t as important to Patrick Chan as recovering his morale. The three-time men’s world champion can match the record fo...
Jan 13, 2017
Kingsbury has string of WCup moguls podium finishes ended with 6th-place result
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Moguls star Mikeal Kingsbury posted his worst result in three years as Canadian freestyle skiers were held off the podium Friday in the season’s second stop on the World Cup ...
Jan 13, 2017
Veterans Tancredi, Wilkinson and Nault retire from Canadian women's soccer team
VANCOUVER - The first time Melissa Tancredi and Rhian Wilkinson trained together for the national women’s soccer team was at a camp in Costa Rica prior to the 2004 Olympic qualifying tournament....
Jan 13, 2017
Chelsea drops Diego Costa amid rift, unsettling Chinese link
LONDON - Diego Costa’s Chelsea career could be coming to a fiery abrupt end, in a setback to the English Premier League leaders’ pursuit of the title. The league top-scorer has not travell...
Jan 13, 2017
Blue Jays say pitching, not slugging, could be key to success in 2017
REGINA - Scoring runs has rarely been an issue for the Toronto Blue Jays the past several seasons, as Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista have slugged it out with the best power hitters in the game an...
Jan 13, 2017
Canadian Brandon Bridge to compete for Roughriders' starting position
Canadian Brandon Bridge is ready to tackle the challenge of being a CFL starting quarterback. On Friday, Saskatchewan dealt the rights to veteran Darian Durant to the Montreal Alouettes for two draft ...
Jan 13, 2017
Canadian players figure in first and second rounds of MLS SuperDraft
LOS ANGELES - Canadians Kwame Awuah and Brian Wright went in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft on Friday, followed by teenagers Adonijah Reid and Shamit Shome in the second round. The haul was in ...
Jan 13, 2017
Calgary's Kevin Koe, North America maintain lead at Continental Cup of Curling
LAS VEGAS - Calgary’s Kevin Koe has Team North America in the lead at the halfway point of the 2017 Continental Cup. Koe, backed up by vice-skip Marc Kennedy, second Brent Laing and lead Ben Heb...
Jan 13, 2017
