Category Archives: Sports

RIO DE JANEIRO - The roaring crowd at the Maracana Stadium desperately wanted Lisa Dahlkvist to miss. It didn’t bother her at all. Dahlkvist just pretended all those Brazilians were cheering for...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil - There will be no shot at Olympic gold for Canada’s women’s soccer team. Second-ranked Germany defeated No. 10 Canada 2-0 in the semifinals today in Belo Horizonte....

NEW YORK - You don’t need to be a numbers-cruncher to guess what won the ratings race last week - and why. With blanket coverage of the Rio Games, NBC had the ratings game all to itself in prime...

OTTAWA - No. 11 is synonymous with Daniel Alfredsson and the Ottawa Senators, and now the organization is making sure it always will be. Senators owner Eugene Melnyk announced Tuesday the team would b...

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal continues to call out NHL commissioner Gary Bettman over the league’s stance on concussions. Bettman recently penned a 24-page letter in response to questions fro...

Monday’s Games MLB American N.Y. Yankees 1 Toronto 0 Boston 3 Cleveland 2 Kansas City 3 Detroit 1 Texas 5 Oakland 2 Seattle 3 L.A. Angels 2 — National Miami 6 Cincinnati 3 Washington 5 Col...

Washington police chief Cathy Lanier, the first woman to lead the department permanently and one of the nation’s longest-serving and most popular big-city police chiefs, announced Tuesday that s...

LONDON - Pep Guardiola’s first match in charge of Manchester City ended with an unconvincing 2-1 win over Sunderland on Saturday, just hours after the new English Premier League season got under...

HOUSTON - Saturday night’s MLS match between Toronto FC and the Houston Dynamo has been postponed because of weather. The match will now be played on Sunday night with a 9:15 p.m. EDT start time...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton roared back to win bronze in the women’s heptathlon at the Rio Olympics. The two-time world silver medallist from Humboldt, Sask., was in si...