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Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning signs three-year extension

VANCOUER, B.C. - Despite five seasons of mediocre on-ice results, Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning believes his new contract shows that the team trusts his plan for the future. The o...

Aug 20, 2019

Impact, Camacho fined by MLS after post-match confrontation with Dallas

NEW YORK - Major League Soccer has fined the Montreal Impact club and defender Rudy Camacho after a post-match scrum that followed a 3-3 draw with FC Dallas. The club was found in violation of the lea...

Aug 20, 2019

Pan Am Games protesters each get 12 months of probation

DENVER - The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has handed down 12-month probations to the athletes who protested on the medals stand at the Pan American Games. In letters of reprimand sent Tuesday...

Aug 20, 2019

Henderson back to defend CP Women's Open title, 12-year-old Liu also in field

AURORA, Ont. - Brooke Henderson remembers being rather star-struck when she made her first appearance at the CP Women's Open. It's a feeling that fellow Canadian Michelle Liu is ex...

Aug 20, 2019

Yusei Kikuchi shuts out Toronto Blue Jays in 7-0 Seattle Mariners' rout

TORONTO - Even if Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had been in Toronto's lineup the Blue Jays likely would not have beaten Seattle Mariners starter Yusei Kikuchi on Sunday. The Japanese l...

Aug 20, 2019

Canada's Andre De Grasse misses out on Diamond League medal by 4/100 of a second

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - Andre De Grasse missed out on a Diamond League medal by just four one-hundredths of a second. De Grasse, from Markham, Ont., was fifth in the 100-metre dash in 10.13 ...

Aug 20, 2019

Lampard's Chelsea homecoming ruined as Leicester earns draw

Frank Lampard climbed the steps in the tunnel and emerged to rapturous applause from Chelsea fans, a flame display and a giant banner at one end of Stamford Bridge that read "Welcome Home Super Frank....

Aug 20, 2019

Former Longhorns, NFL RB Benson dies in motorcycle accident

AUSTIN, Texas - Former NFL running back Cedric Benson, one of the most prolific rushers in NCAA and University of Texas history, has died in a motorcycle accident in Texas. He was 36. Benson's attorne...

Aug 20, 2019

Joan Jett, Underwood to perform 'Sunday Night Football' open

Fred Gaudelli knew NBC would have to come up with something grand for this season's "Sunday Night Football" opener given this is the NFL's 100th anniversary. It didn't take long for the show's executi...

Aug 20, 2019

Canoeist wonders whether she took contaminated supplement that led to positive test

MONTREAL - Top Canadian Olympic medal contender Laurence Vincent Lapointe says she has no idea how Ligandrol got into her system and caused a positive drug test. In a news conference today, the canoei...

Aug 20, 2019