Category Archives: Sports

TOKYO - Calling Tokyo’s proposed $20 billion budget unacceptable, IOC vice-president John Coates urged Japanese organizers on Friday to find ways to make the 2020 Olympics more affordable. Coate...

NEW YORK - Hundreds of Neil (LY-fur) Leifer photographs, including his iconic images of Muhammad Ali, will be auctioned in New York City. Guernsey’s is offering 700 lots Friday and Saturday from...

LONDON - Milos Raonic has parted ways with coach Carlos Moya after the Spaniard helped guide the Canadian player through his most successful year on the tour. In a statement on his Facebook account, R...

MANCHESTER, England - Ten suspects have been identified by one of the 17 police forces investigating a sex-abuse scandal in youth soccer that is engulfing the British game. Greater Manchester Police s...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Michael Phelps wants to dive into Silicon Valley’s investment opportunities as he tries to make the transition from Olympic swimming star and product pitchman to entrepreneur....

NASSAU, Bahamas - Tiger Woods used to have no trouble returning to golf after a long layoff. That was when he was much younger, before the injuries and surgeries began piling up, before the annual arr...

NEW YORK - The league that wins baseball’s All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season r...

Wednesday’s Games (All Times Eastern) Major League Soccer Eastern Conference final Second leg Toronto 5 Montreal 2 (Toronto wins series 7-5 on aggregate) — NHL N.Y. Islanders 5 Pittsburgh ...

Wednesday’s Games (All Times Eastern) Major League Soccer Eastern Conference final Second leg Toronto 5 Montreal 2 (Toronto wins series 7-5 on aggregate) — NHL N.Y. Islanders 5 Pittsburgh ...

IRVING, Texas - Baseball players and owners reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on a five-year labour contract that will extend the sport’s industrial peace to 26 years. After days of near r...