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Message delivered: When NHL head coaches go public with criticism
By Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press on April 10th, 2024
Sheldon Keefe walked into the Maple Leafs locker room and did something he loathed. Toronto’s head coach addressed his team after a loss – a particularly ugly one at that. He called out his leaders, including captain John Tavares, by name. The word “immature” was used to describe the bitterly disappointing performance. Keefe then met ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Three-time Grey Cup champion Shawn Lemon announces retirement from football
By The Canadian Press on April 10th, 2024
Veteran defensive lineman Shawn Lemon, who won three Grey Cups with three different organizations, announced his CFL retirement Wednesday. The 35-year-old Lemon had signed a one-year contract extension with the Montreal Alouettes in December. Lemon joined the Alouettes last season after the B.C Lions cut him in training camp due to their Canadian ratio requirements. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fury says Usyk won’t overcome size difference in the fight to crown the undisputed heavyweight champ
By The Associated Press on April 10th, 2024
MORECAMBE, England (AP) – For Tyson Fury, size will count for everything in his fight with Oleksandr Usyk to crown the first undisputed heavyweight champion since 2000. Usyk, a former cruiserweight, might be giving away around 50 pounds (22.7 kilograms) to Fury, who – at 6-foot-9 (2.09 meters) – is 6 inches (15cm) taller and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jones, Jacobs rebound from lopsided losses at Players’ Championship
By The Canadian Press on April 10th, 2024
TORONTO – Jennifer Jones and Brad Jacobs bounced back from lopsided tournament-opening losses with victories in Wednesday’s early draw at the Grand Slam of Curling’s Players’ Championship. Winnipeg’s Jones, who was defeated 9-2 by Sweden’s Isabella Wrana in Tuesday’s tournament-opening draw, scored one in the seventh end and stole two in the eighth for an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Soon to be a 2-time Olympic host city, Salt Lake City’s zest for the Games is now an outlier
By Hannah Schoenbaum, The Associated Press on April 10th, 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Reminders of the 2002 Winter Olympics are nestled in every nook and cranny of Utah’s capital city, from a towering Olympic cauldron that overlooks the Salt Lake Valley to an Olympic emblem stamped on manhole covers downtown. As visitors leave the airport, they are greeted with a can’t-miss Olympic arch ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Arkansas hires John Calipari to coach the Razorbacks, a day after stepping down from Kentucky
By The Associated Press on April 10th, 2024
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas hired John Calipari as men’s basketball coach on Wednesday, a day after the Hall of Fame coach stepped down from the Kentucky program he led to the 2012 NCAA championship. The 65-year-old Calipari signed a five-year contract with an annual base salary of $7 million through April 2029 with a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lane Hutson focused on NCAA Men’s Frozen Four, but NHL looms for Canadiens prospect
By Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press on April 10th, 2024
Lane Hutson has never had any issue staying in the moment. And the defenceman’s razor-sharp focus is currently on helping Boston University secure its sixth U.S. college hockey title at the NCAA Men’s Frozen Four. Hutson, however, also knows there’s a big decision coming. Widely viewed as the Montreal Canadiens’ top prospect, the 20-year-old could ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Nick Taylor gets a Masters Mulligan after COVID-19 tainted first experience
By John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press on April 10th, 2024
Nick Taylor is happy to be getting a Mulligan on his first Masters appearance. The Abbotsford, B.C., native made his one and only appearance at Augusta National Golf Club in 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Masters was held in November that year, there were no fans and players could only have one person ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000
By James Ellingworth, The Associated Press on April 10th, 2024
Monaco – Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. The move is a symbolic break with the amateur past of the Olympics in one of the games’ most-watched events. The governing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime falls to Sonego at Monte Carlo Masters
By The Canadian Press on April 10th, 2024
ROQUEBRUNE-CAP-MARTIN, France – Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters tournament on Wednesday after dropping a third-round match 6-4, 7-5 to Lorenzo Sonego of Italy. Auger-Aliassime, ranked 35th in the world, fired just three aces while committing 13 unforced errors in a two-hour and two-minute match. Sonego, ranked 57th, was a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kuzmenko plays OT hero, Flames sink Sharks 3-2 to stop skid
By Eric He, The Associated Press on April 10th, 2024
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – Andrei Kuzmenko scored a power-play goal 2:58 into overtime and the Calgary Flames came back to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Tuesday night. Kuzmenko put in the puck off a scramble in front for the Flames, who had lost three straight and eight of nine. Rasmus Andersson and ... Read More »
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