Category Archives: Sports
Sixth week of CFL season featured its share of the good, bad and ugly
The sixth week of the CFL regular season featured its share of the good, bad and ugly. A sparkling one-handed grab by Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Duron Carter highlighted the good while a couple...
Jul 24, 2017
Legal New Jersey online poker pushes World Series champion
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Scott Blumstein’s path to winning more than $8.1 million as the World Series of Poker champion started in the online poker rooms of New Jersey. While internet gambling has ...
Jul 24, 2017
Phelps loses by 2 seconds to simulated shark in 'Shark Week'
Michael Phelps has finally met his match in the water: a “great white shark.” The Olympic champion swimmer was bested Sunday night in the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week special ̶...
Jul 24, 2017
Japan marks three-year countdown to Tokyo 2020 Games
TOKYO - Japan began its three-year countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Monday with concerts, races and other events meant to drum up public enthusiasm for the games. The 2020 Games will be Japan...
Jul 24, 2017

Beltre bolstering Hall case while closing in on 3,000 hits
Adrian Beltre needs 11 hits to reach 3,000 - a milestone that would bring some long overdue attention to a quietly great player. Beltre has never won an MVP award, and he’s been an All-Star only...
Jul 24, 2017
Sunday's Games
Sunday’s Games MLB American League Cleveland 8 Toronto 1 Texas 6 Tampa Bay 5 Baltimore 9 Houston 7 Detroit 9 Minnesota 6 Kansas City 5 Chicago White Sox 4 L.A. Angels 3 Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 6 S...
Jul 23, 2017
Canada loses to Czech Republic in four sets in final women's Grand Prix match
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Czech Republic earned a 3-1 win over Canada in its final match of Group 2 pool play on Sunday, knocking off the home side to pick up its seventh win of the 2017 FIVB World Grand P...
Jul 23, 2017

Vancouver Whitecaps fall to undermanned Portland Timbers 2-1
VANCOUVER - Caleb Porter spent the last few days trying to patch together a lineup with injuries, suspensions and international duty ravaging his roster. At the final whistle Sunday, the head coach of...
Jul 23, 2017
CFL rookie Wilder to get the start at running back for Argos versus Redblacks
TORONTO - James Wilder Jr. is hoping to get a little physical with the Ottawa Redblacks on Monday night. Wilder will get the start at running back for the Toronto Argonauts (2-2) in place of veteran B...
Jul 23, 2017
Canada's Pavan and Humana-Paredes win silver on beach volleyball World Tour
OLSZYNA, Poland - Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., and Toronto’s Melissa Humana-Paredes earned silver after a 2-1 loss to Brazil’s Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca on Sunday at a beach vol...
Jul 23, 2017