Category Archives: Sports
Sports unions unveil universal declaration of player rights
WASHINGTON - Leaders from the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball players associations helped unveil a universal declaration of player rights that is designed to establish a new approach to govern...
Dec 14, 2017
Player safety: CFL schedule stretched over additional week to increase rest
TORONTO - The Canadian Football League season will be spread over an additional week next year in an effort to promote player safety. The league announced its schedule on Thursday, two months earlier ...
Dec 14, 2017
Titanic Celine Dion megahit becomes part of winning tradition for Winnipeg Jets
WINNIPEG - It was a song request Mathieu Perreault had no problem accommodating in the Winnipeg Jets’ locker-room. The Drummondville, Que., native controls the room’s music and recalled so...
Dec 14, 2017
As Olympics near, South Korea agonizes over post-Games costs
GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean officials have ruled out turning a state-of-the-art Olympic skating arena into a giant seafood freezer. Other than that, not much is certain about the coun...
Dec 14, 2017
Kadeisha Buchanan caps remarkable year with top Canadian female player award
TORONTO - Defender Kadeisha Buchanan capped a remarkable campaign overseas Thursday with a domestic triumph, earning Canadian female soccer player of the year honours for the second time in three year...
Dec 14, 2017
Veteran Ottawa Senators forward Chris Neil announces retirement
OTTAWA - Chris Neil figured he wouldn’t stick in the NHL on skill alone, so he created a niche for himself based on toughness and a peerless work ethic. It’s a role Neil played to the hilt...
Dec 14, 2017
WADA shares Moscow lab evidence with Olympic sports bodies
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Evidence from a Moscow laboratory database has been shared by World Anti-Doping Agency investigators with international sports bodies who must decide on prosecuting Russian ath...
Dec 14, 2017
Putin accuses US agencies of manipulating doping testimony
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused U.S. agencies of manipulating evidence from the main whistleblower on doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Putin said Thursday that former Moscow anti-d...
Dec 14, 2017
Wednesday's Games
Wednesday’s Games NHL Nashville 7 Vancouver 1 Ottawa 3 N.Y. Rangers 2 Dallas 5 N.Y. Islanders 2 Boston at Detroit 8 p.m. — AHL Belleville 4 Binghamton 3 (SO) Providence 3 Hershey 0 Charlot...
Dec 13, 2017
P.K. Subban scores twice as Nashville Predators demolish Vancouver Canucks 7-1
VANCOUVER - There have been times this season when P.K. Subban felt he deserved a goal that didn’t materialize. Wednesday was not one of those nights. Subban scored twice under strange circumsta...
Dec 13, 2017