Category Archives: Sports

RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil - As soon as she hit the water Jennifer Abel knew she wasn’t going to win a medal at the Rio Olympics. Abel and diving partner Pamela Ware opened the Rio Olympics with a g...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Penny Oleksiak spent her first day of competition at the Rio Games lowering her own world junior record in the 100-metre butterfly heats and anchoring Canada’s freestyle relay t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Yordano Ventura was not at his best, but good enough to end a personal losing drought. Ventura pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Kendrys Morales hit a grand slam, and the...

CROMWELL, Conn. - Jim Furyk has a place in PGA Tour history all to himself with a new magic number in golf. Three years after Furyk became the sixth player on tour with a 59, he took it even lower Sun...

RIO DE JANEIRO - The entire Russia team has been banned from competing in the Paralympic Games in September as punishment for the country’s systematic doping program. The International Paralympi...

NEW YORK - Ready or not, Alex Rodriguez will play his final game in pinstripes this week. One of the most prolific hitters and polarizing figures in baseball history, the slumping slugger plans to tak...

MANCHESTER, England - Paul Pogba is close to joining Manchester United for a world-record transfer fee, with manager Jose Mourinho saying Sunday the France midfielder will be at the right club “...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Pascal Lussier and the rest of Canada’s rowers at the Summer Olympics have a simple rule - no racing away from the water. Wary of Rio de Janeiro’s infamous traffic jams, t...

JOHANNESBURG - Oscar Pistorius was treated for minor wrist injuries at a hospital and has been returned to a South African jail where the Olympian is serving a six-year sentence for murdering girlfrie...

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