Category Archives: Sports

Haryanto out, Ocon in as race driver for Manor F1
BANBURY, England - Formula One team Manor terminated Rio Haryanto’s contract as a race driver, replacing him Wednesday with Frenchman Esteban Ocon for the remainder of the season. Manor said in ...
Aug 10, 2016

Divers Filion and Benfeito earn Canada yet another Olympic bronze medal
RIO DE JANEIRO - Divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito kept Canada’s medal streak going at the Rio Summer Games with another bronze medal. Filion, of Laval, Que., and Benfeito, of Montreal...
Aug 09, 2016
US women gymnasts, Phelps, Ledecky all golden again
RIO DE JANEIRO - Good old Michael Phelps, golden again. For teenagers Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles, their star turns in the Summer Olympics might be just beginning. From the pool to the gymnastics f...
Aug 09, 2016

Estrada struggles in short outing; says adjustment required for six-man rotation
TORONTO - Marco Estrada described himself as “rusty” in one of his shortest outings of the season, perhaps a result, he said, of the Blue Jays new six-man rotation. The Blue Jays all-star ...
Aug 09, 2016
Michael Jordan pledges $5 million to African-American museum
WASHINGTON - Michael Jordan has made another major donation, pledging $5 million to the Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum on the National Mall. Officials at the National Museum o...
Aug 09, 2016

Te-ball? Tim Tebow will try to play professional baseball
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - With professional football not working out, Tim Tebow is going to give baseball a try. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL first-round draft pick plans to hold a workout ...
Aug 09, 2016

Dodgers "disappointed" by video of Puig partying in minors
Yasiel Puig has found the party in the Pacific Coast League. Days after a demotion to the minors, the unpredictable Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder posted videos to his Snapchat account Monday night of...
Aug 09, 2016

Study: 83% of NCAA violations involve football, basketball
Big-money sports football and men’s basketball were involved in 83 per cent of NCAA Division I major infractions cases from 1953 to 2014, according to the first study of its kind released Tuesda...
Aug 09, 2016
Alouettes sign kicker Fera, put struggling Bede on six-game injured list
MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes added kicker Anthony Fera to their roster Tuesday and moved struggling Boris Bede to the six-game injured list. The Alouettes had been trying out kickers this week wi...
Aug 09, 2016

Canadian divers Filion and Benfeito win Olympic bronze medal in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO - Canadian divers Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito have won a bronze medal in the women’s 10-metre synchronized event. The two women, who also won bronze four years ago in Lon...
Aug 09, 2016