INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The NCAA has adopted a sport-by-sport approach for transgender athletes, bringing the organization in line with the U.S. and International Olympic Committees. Under the new guidelines, approved by the NCAA Board of Governors on Wednesday, transgender participation for each sport will be determined by the policy for […]
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Reigning Olympic two-man champion Justin Kripps, and Cynthia Appiah and Christine de Bruin, who’ve been excellent on the women’s monobob circuit this season, headline Canada’s 18-member bobsled team for the Beijing Olympics. Olympic veterans Jane Channell of Calgary and Mirela Rahneva of Ottawa and rookie Blake Enzie of Calgary are […]
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There will now be at least a three-year gap between editions of the largest Indigenous youth hockey tournament in Ontario. That’s because for the third consecutive year, citing COVID-19 safety concerns, officials with the Little Native Hockey League tournament cancelled the 2022 event this past Friday, Jan. 14. This year’s […]
By John Wawrow
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The Premier Hockey Federation is more than doubling each teams’ salary cap to $750,000 and adding two expansion franchises next season in a bid to capitalize on the wave of attention women’s hockey traditionally enjoys following the Winter Olympics. The PHF’s announcement on Tuesday of its board of governors’ commitment […]
By Doug Feinberg
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Kelsey Mitchell, Lexie Brown and Mercedes Russell were the latest three WNBA players to sign up for the inaugural Athletes Unlimited Basketball season. There’s 11 players in the WNBA last season among the 44 players who will compete in the player-run league that begins Jan. 26 in Las Vegas. The […]
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MONTREAL – The Montreal Canadiens have named player agent Kent Hughes as the NHL club’s 18th general manager. The 51-year-old Montreal native has been an agent and partner of Quebec-based firm Quartexx Management since 2016. Before joining the Canadiens, he represented more than 20 players under NHL contracts. His past […]
By John Pye
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The first test of Naomi Osaka’s new approach to tennis might have been when she completely whiffed an overhead to give her opponent a break point on Day 1 of the no-Novak Djokovic Australian Open. Osaka didn’t throw her racket. She didn’t roll her eyes. She […]
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BEIJING (AP) – Only “selected” spectators will be permitted at next month’s Beijing Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said Monday. Beijing had already announced that no fans from outside the country would be permitted at the events, and had not offered tickets to the general public. Monday’s announcement […]
By Dan Greenspan
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phillip Danault, Blake Lizotte and Adrian Kempe scored in the Los Angeles Kings’ 3-1 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. Trevor Moore had two assists and Cal Petersen made 22 saves for the Kings, who have won four of five. Mika Zibanejad had […]
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POTSDAM, Germany (AP) – German prosecutors will drop an animal cruelty investigation into an athlete and a coach who were shown striking a horse during the Olympic modern pentathlon last year. The investigation will be dropped once athlete Annika Schleu and coach Kim Raisner have paid an agreed sum to […]
By Michael Kelly
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DENVER (AP) – Nazem Kadri scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period, and the surging Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Seattle Kraken 4-3 on Monday night. Nicolas Aube-Kubel had two goals and Devon Toews also scored for Colorado, which beat former goalie Philipp Grubauer to win its […]
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) – Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus, she said Tuesday. Chinese authorities require unvaccinated Olympians to enter quarantine upon arrival if they don’t have a valid medical exemption. […]
