Category Archives: Sports
Board of governors meeting ends with no clear next step for NHL and 2018 Olympics
PALM BEACH, Fla. - Wayne Gretzky remembered, with incredible precision, what it was like to fly back to North America from the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. Part of the Team Canada squad that missed out on...
Dec 09, 2016
Gretzky defends McDavid's fiery outburst; says Manning targeting come with superstar territory
PALM BEACH, Fla. - As the primary target of opponents over his Hall of Fame career, Wayne Gretzky could certainly empathize with the frustration Connor McDavid was feeling Thursday night. McDavid and ...
Dec 09, 2016
Peter Eriksson fired as head coach of Athletics Canada after internal review
Peter Eriksson has been fired as head coach and chief technical officer at Athletics Canada just months after the track and field team had one of its most successful Olympics in decades. Canada captur...
Dec 09, 2016
24-diamond 'Field of Dreams' baseball complex gets go-ahead
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn. The court on Friday cleared the way ...
Dec 09, 2016
Winnipeg Blue Bombers give GM Walters and coach O'Shea three-year extensions
WINNIPEG - Negotiations to extend the contracts of Winnipeg Blue Bombers general manager Kyle Walters and head coach Mike O’Shea were casual and went smoothly. The CFL team announced Friday that...
Dec 09, 2016
British police: 83 potential suspects in soccer abuse probe
LONDON - Police overseeing the sex abuse scandal in British soccer say 83 potential suspects have been identified and linked to 98 clubs. Officers across the country are sifting through 639 referrals ...
Dec 09, 2016
The Latest: Mutko says Russia will resort to legal action
LONDON - The Latest on the Russian doping report (all times local): ___ 6:30 p.m. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko says Russia will resort to legal action in response to allegations of insti...
Dec 09, 2016
Report: Russian doping involved over 1,000 athletes
LONDON - Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again Friday when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast “institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 ath...
Dec 09, 2016
Scores and Schedule
Thursday’s Games NHL Philadelphia 6 Edmonton 5 Montreal 5 New Jersey 2 Vancouver 5 Tampa Bay 1 Calgary 2 Arizona 1 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 2 Winnipeg 1 N.Y. Islanders 3 St. Louis 2 Colorado 4 Boston 2...
Dec 08, 2016
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games NHL Philadelphia 6 Edmonton 5 Montreal 5 New Jersey 2 Vancouver 5 Tampa Bay 1 Calgary 2 Arizona 1 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 2 Winnipeg 1 N.Y. Islanders 3 St. Louis 2 Colorado 4 Boston 2...
Dec 08, 2016
