Category Archives: Sports

NEW YORK - You don’t need to be a numbers-cruncher to guess what won the ratings race last week - and why. With blanket coverage of the Rio Games, NBC had the ratings game all to itself in prime...

OTTAWA - No. 11 is synonymous with Daniel Alfredsson and the Ottawa Senators, and now the organization is making sure it always will be. Senators owner Eugene Melnyk announced Tuesday the team would b...

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal continues to call out NHL commissioner Gary Bettman over the league’s stance on concussions. Bettman recently penned a 24-page letter in response to questions fro...

Washington police chief Cathy Lanier, the first woman to lead the department permanently and one of the nation’s longest-serving and most popular big-city police chiefs, announced Tuesday that s...

Monday’s Games MLB American N.Y. Yankees 1 Toronto 0 Boston 3 Cleveland 2 Kansas City 3 Detroit 1 Texas 5 Oakland 2 Seattle 3 L.A. Angels 2 — National Miami 6 Cincinnati 3 Washington 5 Col...

TORONTO - Defensive back Kevin Fogg and receiver Clarence Denmark of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Eskimos linebacker Deon Lacey were named the CFL’s players of the week Tuesday. Fogg h...

HAMILTON - The annual Canadian Football Hall of Fame game is returning to Hamilton. The 2016 induction class - which includes builder Don McDonald and former players Doug Brown, Rodney Harding, Derrel...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Joao Havelange, who as president of FIFA for two decades transformed soccer’s governing body into a multibillion-dollar business and a hotbed for subsequent corruption that dama...

NEW YORK - This youth movement has brought a new feeling to the New York Yankees. It’s put them in a new position in the pennant race, too. Chad Green struck out 11 in six dominant innings, fell...

NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez says he won’t play again this season. The three-time AL MVP was released Saturday by the New York Yankees, who owed him about $27 million for the rest of his contract, ...