NEW YORK (AP) – Yankees slugger Aaron Judge left Sunday night’s game at the New York Mets in the middle of the third inning because of dizziness. Judge got assistance from an athletic trainer while batting in the first inning. He struck out in the first and third innings against […]
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By Wayne Parry
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A company that most of the legal U.S. sports betting industry uses to verify that its customers are where they say they are reports a record number of transactions over the first weekend of the NFL season. That helps confirm an expected a big increase […]
By Tales Azzoni
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MADRID (AP) – More than 18 months later, Real Madrid is returning to Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Madrid will get to play at its venue when it hosts Celta Vigo in the Spanish league on Sunday, 560 days after it last hosted a match at the stadium. The Bernabeu’s massive renovation […]
By John Wawrow
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The National Women’s Hockey League is history. Welcome, Premier Hockey Federation. North America’s first women’s professional hockey league to pay players a salary is adopting the new title on Tuesday as part of a rebranding to reflect sweeping changes made to its management structure, coupled with an influx of private […]
By Doug Fergguson
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TOKYO – Danielle Dorris couldn’t quite believe the silver medal hung around her neck on Monday. The 18-year-old from Moncton, N.B., captured the hardware with a second-place finish in the women’s 100-metre breaststroke S7 at the Tokyo Paralympics, but the reality of the situation had yet to sink in. “It […]
By Barry Wilner
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Paul Tagliabue left his job as commissioner of the NFL in 2006 and didn’t get selected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame until last year. If that seems odd for a man who guided the NFL for 17 years and oversaw labor peace, expansion, new stadiums, huge increases in […]
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) – Buffalo Bills receiver Isaiah McKenzie revealed he faces NFL discipline for violating the league’s COVID-19 protocols for unvaccinated players by failing to wear a mask inside the team’s facility. McKenzie wrote: “They got me! ↕NFL you win!” in a Thursday social media post in which […]
After a year’s postponement, and major uncertainty about whether they’d get off the ground at all, the Tokyo Paralympics opened on Tuesday amid a barrage of fireworks and almost audible sigh of relief. Judo athlete Priscilla Gagne carried Canada’s flag into National Stadium in the opening ceremony and said there […]
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The six members of the Refugee Paralympic Team received some words of encouragement Monday from one of the world’s most famous refugee athletes. Bayern Munich and Canada soccer star Alphonso Davies, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said the six athletes had the power to […]
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Hilary Knight tied former U.S. star Cammi Granato’s record for goals in women’s world hockey championship play with 44 in the Americans’ 3-0 victory over Finland on Sunday night. Making her U.S.-record 11th appearance in the event, the 32-year-old Knight scored from the slot to cap […]
Several Edmonton Elks players have tested positive for COVID-19, the Canadian Football League revealed late Sunday. The CFL has postponed Edmonton’s next game against the Argonauts in Toronto, initially scheduled for Thursday. In a statement, the league said the Elks would not practise or travel until cleared by the league’s […]
