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Plays of the year: 2019 had a flair for the dramatic
Thousands of pro games, hundreds of thousands of college games, millions of high school games and billions of youth-league, rec-league, bar-league and whatever other sort of league games you can think...
Dec 23, 2019
Toronto Raptors star Kyle Lowry earns East player of the week nod
Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry has been named the NBA's Eastern Conference player of the week. Lowry averaged 24.5 points, 10 assists, 6.5 rebounds and 39.6 minutes while helping the inju...
Dec 23, 2019
Roenick suspended by NBC Sports for inappropriate comments
Former NHL forward Jeremy Roenick was suspended indefinitely by NBC Sports on Monday for his inappropriate comments about coworkers. Roenick made a series of questionable remarks about fellow hockey b...
Dec 23, 2019
Jeff Mallett replaces John Furlong as Vancouver Whitecaps' executive chair
Vancouver Whitecaps executive chair John Furlong will retire from the club on Dec. 31. Whitecaps co-owner/director Jeff Mallett will assume the executive chair position, formalizing his role as the pu...
Dec 23, 2019
Celtics' Kanter thanks Trudeau for clearing way for him to play vs. Raptors
Boston Celtics centre Enes Kanter says he will be able to play in his team's Christmas Day game in Toronto against the Raptors after discussions with the Canadian government. In a column in The Globe ...
Dec 23, 2019
Scoring in Bunches: Maple Leafs outscore Hurricanes 8-6 in wild matinee
TORONTO - After experimenting with his lines at the start of the game, Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe considered reverting back to the norm after some second-period struggles on Monday. He decid...
Dec 23, 2019
MLB pitcher Rich Hill and wife arrested at Patriots game
BOSTON - Free agent pitcher Rich Hill and his wife were arrested outside Saturday's New England Patriots game after police said his wife attempted to enter the stadium with an oversized bag and he arg...
Dec 23, 2019
6 killed, 13 injured in Las Vegas apartment building fire
LAS VEGAS - A fire in a three-story apartment building in downtown Las Vegas where residents were apparently using their stoves for heat killed six people and forced some residents to jump from upper-...
Dec 23, 2019
France says it carries out first armed drone strike in Mali
PARIS - France's defence ministry announced Monday it had carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven Islamic extremists in central Mali over the weekend. France joins a tiny group of coun...
Dec 23, 2019
Dancer born with one hand makes Radio City Rockettes history
NEW YORK - A dancer born with one hand is the first person with a visible disability ever hired by New York's famed Radio City Rockettes. "I don't want to be known as the dancer who has one hand, and ...
Dec 23, 2019