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Diaz hits 2 homers, Rays beat A’s 5-1 in AL wild-card game
OAKLAND, Calif. - Yandy Diaz slugged baseball's lowest spender into a matchup with mighty Houston, Charlie Morton silenced the powerful Athletics on the mound, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Oakland at i...
Oct 02, 2019
Diaz hits 2 homers, Rays beat A’s 5-1 in AL wild-card game
OAKLAND, Calif. - Yandy Diaz slugged baseball's lowest spender into a matchup with mighty Houston, Charlie Morton silenced the powerful Athletics on the mound, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Oakland at i...
Oct 02, 2019
Steelers break out of funk, stomp Bengals 27-3
PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Steelers insisted they might have been winless through three weeks, but they were far from hopeless. They stressed the process of finding an identity with franchise quarter...
Oct 02, 2019
Trudeau, Bloc's Blanchet spar over Quebec's Bill-21 in French language debate
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and his Bloc Quebecois opponent Yves-Francois Blanchet clashed sharply over Quebec's controversial secularism law during a French-language debate Wednesday night...
Oct 02, 2019
Matthews scores twice, Tavares named Leafs captain as Toronto downs Ottawa
TORONTO - Auston Matthews continued his dominance on opening night. The Maple Leafs centre scored twice as Toronto defeated the Ottawa Senators 5-3 in the curtain-raiser on the 2019-20 ...
Oct 02, 2019
In debate, Bloc leader says only his party represents the Quebec nation
MONTREAL - Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet hammered home a single message early on in the first French-language election debate Wednesday night: the only party in which Quebecers can full...
Oct 02, 2019
Gerwig talks ‘Little Women’ for academy’s women initiative
NEW YORK - With a new awards season underway, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences hosted a luncheon Wednesday supporting female filmmakers and celebrating the women behind Greta Gerwig's ...
Oct 02, 2019
Charbel Dabire gaining hands-on experience in first CFL season
The 2019 CFL season has been an accelerated learning experience for rookie defensive tackle Charbel Dabire.The fifth-round selection (44th overall) in the 2019 draft has been thrust from the practice ...
Oct 02, 2019 Charbel Dabire (98) has learned plenty of lessons in his rookie season, including some from Charleston Hughes (39). (File photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Roughriders)
John Tavares named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
TORONTO - John Tavares is the new captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team made the announcement during Wednesday night's pre-game ceremony before the NHL season opener against the ...
Oct 02, 2019
Michigan governor signs budget with $1B in line-item vetoes
LANSING, Mich. - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the next state budget Monday hours before the deadline to fund government, while using line-item vetoes to block nearly $1 billion in spending pr...
Oct 02, 2019