Category Archives: Sports
Calgary Stampeders sign local defensive lineman Michael Klassen
CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders have signed Canadian defensive lineman Michael Klassen. The the six-foot-five, 275-pound Calgary native has played 54 career regular-season games over four seasons wit...
Jun 02, 2017
Canadians Ashley Lawrence, Kadeisha Buchanan face off in Champions League final
Two Canadians will be front and centre Thursday in European women’s showcase soccer match. Wingback Ashley Lawrence and defender Kadeisha Buchanan, both 21, face off in an all-French final of th...
Jun 02, 2017
Toronto Argonauts veteran linebacker Winston Venable calls it a career
TORONTO - Veteran linebacker Winston Venable has retired, the Toronto Argonauts announced Wednesday. Toronto signed the five-foot-11, 220-pound Venable this off-season as a free agent. Venable spent t...
Jun 02, 2017
Tokyo organizers reach agreement on allocation of 2020 costs
TOKYO - Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics reached a broad agreement Wednesday on the allocation of costs for the 2020 Games with the metropolitan, national and local governments of the seven prefecture...
Jun 02, 2017
New deal for Wenger after Arsenal says no better alternative
LONDON - Even as dissent mounted against Arsene Wenger and the Premier League title drought reached 13 years, Arsenal’s leadership concluded there’s no better manager for the London club. ...
Jun 02, 2017
Owners of Ali's boyhood home warn of possible closing
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The owners who restored Muhammad Ali’s boyhood home in Kentucky and opened it as a museum say it may have to close because of financial difficulties. The pink home where Ali - ...
Jun 02, 2017
Morales hits go-ahead two-run homer in eighth inning as Blue Jays top Reds 6-4
TORONTO - Kendrys Morales just missed getting in on the Blue Jays’ home run fun in the fourth inning. He made sure the ball got over the fence when he stepped up to the plate in the eighth. Mora...
Jun 02, 2017
Piatti brace lifts Impact over Whitecaps 4-2 in Canadian Championship semifinal
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact poured in four goals and got the win, but not without some hairy moments at the end against a young Vancouver Whitecaps lineup. Ignacio Piatti scored twice from the pena...
Jun 02, 2017
Risky retrieval of Everest bodies raises climbers' concern
KATHMANDU, Nepal - The Indian man wept as a helicopter landed in Nepal’s capital carrying the body of his brother, one of hundreds of climbers who have died while attempting to climb Mount Evere...
Jun 02, 2017
Hunter Strickland suspended 6 games, Bryce Harper 4
SAN FRANCISCO - There is widespread agreement on one topic the day after a bench-clearing brawl that led to a six-game suspension for Giants reliever Hunter Strickland and a four-game ban for Washingt...
Jun 02, 2017