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TORONTO - With the Pyeongchang Games fast approaching, the Canadian Olympic Committee is calling on the International Olympic Committee to move forward with “more timely action” in the wak...
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TORONTO - Andre De Grasse was a promising young sprinter at the 2015 Pan American Games and raced to double gold in the 100 and 200 metres. It was his coming-out party, and a jam-packed crowd at Toron...
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Investigators at the International Olympic Committee expect to have “a number” of doping cases involving Russians at the Sochi Olympics resolved by the end of November, but they have no pl...
nanaimonewsimport@socastdigital.com Oct 19, 2017
CLEVELAND - A former professional boxer who once fought heavyweight Mike Tyson has received probation after a fatal shooting that happened when bus passengers in Cleveland challenged him to a fistfigh...
nanaimonewsimport@socastdigital.com Oct 19, 2017
Beijing, host of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, has a snow problem: Hardly any of the white stuff falls on the Chinese capital despite freezing temperatures. Taking the matter in hand, the games organ...
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BOSTON - Home plate umpire Chris Segal is remaining in the game after getting hit in the head by Josh Donaldson’s bat in a game between the Blue Jays and Red Sox. Donaldson was the third batter ...
nanaimonewsimport@socastdigital.com Jul 17, 2017
PLYMPTON, Mass. - A Massachusetts farm is honouring Tom Brady with a corn maze designed in his image. Sauchuk’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch in the town of Plympton said Sunday that its 10th corn...
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Lacrosse superstar John Grant Jr. has announced his retirement after 17 National Lacrosse League seasons. Grant played 238 career games with the Rochester Knighthawks and Colorado Mammoth, amassing th...
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TORONTO - Travis Lulay is living proof of just how important a backup quarterback is in the CFL. The 33-year-old threw for a career-best 436 yards and three TDs Saturday night in leading B.C. past the...
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TORONTO - While Yankee Stadium has proved to be a strangely shaped home to soccer, it seems to fit Sebastian Giovinco. The Atomic Ant has seven goals and three assists in four trips to the Bronx ahead...
nanaimonewsimport@socastdigital.com Jul 17, 2017