Category Archives: Sports
Turkey blasts claimed by Kurdish militants; country mourns
ISTANBUL - Turkey declared a national day of mourning and paid tribute to the dead Sunday after two bombings in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium. The carnage was ...
Dec 11, 2016
Former TFC 'keeper Stefan Frei stars for Seattle in MLS Cup victory over Toronto
TORONTO - There were far more bad times than good ones in Stefan Frei’s five years of playing in net for Toronto FC. But Saturday night at BMO Field, in the city where he got his Major League So...
Dec 10, 2016
Scores and Schedule
Saturday’s Games MLS Cup Seattle 0 Toronto 0 (Seattle wins title 5-4 on penalty kicks) — NHL Calgary 6 Winnipeg 2 Florida 4 Vancouver 2 Toronto 4 Boston 1 Montreal 10 Colorado 1 Los Angele...
Dec 10, 2016

Holloway defeats Pettis for interim featherweight championship at UFC 206
TORONTO - Max Holloway got an added boost of confidence heading into Saturday’s main event at UFC 206 after seeing Anthony Pettis miss weight a day earlier. Holloway scored the knockout at 4:50 ...
Dec 10, 2016
Saturday's Games
Saturday’s Games MLS Cup Seattle 0 Toronto 0 (Seattle wins title 5-4 on penalty kicks) — NHL Calgary 6 Winnipeg 2 Florida 4 Vancouver 2 Toronto 4 Boston 1 Montreal 10 Colorado 1 Los Angele...
Dec 10, 2016

Dougie Hamilton has two goals, assist; Flames rout Jets for sixth straight win
CALGARY - The opening existed for just a split second, but Dougie Hamilton hit it perfectly. Hamilton’s thread-the-needle second-period goal sparked the Calgary Flames to a 6-2 thumping of the W...
Dec 10, 2016

Seattle celebrates MLS Cup win in penalty shootout, Toronto feels the pain
TORONTO - While the Seattle Sounders celebrated with the Philip F. Anschutz Trophy after the MLS Cup final, numb Toronto FC players tried to process what had just happened. There are few more painful ...
Dec 10, 2016

Canadian Alex Gough races to gold medal finish at luge World Cup
WHISTLER, B.C. - Canadian Alex Gough won the women’s World Cup luge race at the Whistler Sliding Centre on Saturday night, as a very strange week on the circuit began winding down. Gough, from C...
Dec 10, 2016
Ekblad, Barkov lead Panthers to 4-2 win over Canucks
SUNRISE, Fla. - Aleksander Barkov has put an extended scoring slump behind him, and that finally helped the Florida Panthers end a losing streak Saturday night. Barkov had a goal and an assist and has...
Dec 10, 2016
Matthews, Hyman score in 2nd, Maple Leafs beat Bruins 4-1
BOSTON - The Toronto Maple Leafs found a way to overcome a poor opening period. Auston Matthews and Zach Hyman scored in the second period, Frederik Andersen made 32 saves and the Maple Leafs beat the...
Dec 10, 2016