Category Archives: Sports
WADA says electronic database is safe despite cyber attack
PARIS - Despite the hack of personal medical information from some of the world’s leading athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency says its overall electronic database is safe. The system, known u...
Sep 28, 2016
IOC sanctions 3 boxers for betting on fights at Rio Olympics
LONDON - Three Olympic boxers - including one who bet on himself to lose - received “severe reprimands” on Wednesday for betting on fights during last month’s Rio de Janeiro Games. I...
Sep 28, 2016
WADA says electronic database is safe despite cyber attack
PARIS - Despite the hack of personal medical information from some of the world’s leading athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency says its overall electronic database is safe. The system, known u...
Sep 28, 2016
Probe of jetty sought as service held for Marlins' Fernandez
MIAMI - Somber Miami Marlins players and personnel escorted a hearse carrying the body of star pitcher Jose Fernandez from the team’s ballpark Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio sought a safety ...
Sep 28, 2016
Probe of jetty sought as service held for Marlins' Fernandez
MIAMI - Somber Miami Marlins players and personnel escorted a hearse carrying the body of star pitcher Jose Fernandez from the team’s ballpark Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio sought a safety ...
Sep 28, 2016
Banned Rose appeals to Hall of Fame for eligibility
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Pete Rose is appealing directly to baseball’s Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooper...
Sep 28, 2016
Banned Rose appeals to Hall of Fame for eligibility
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Pete Rose is appealing directly to baseball’s Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooper...
Sep 28, 2016
Abdul-Jabbar writing book about UCLA coach John Wooden
NEW YORK - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s next book will be a fond look back at his long friendship with John Wooden, the celebrated basketball coach at UCLA. “Coach Wooden and Me” will be pu...
Sep 28, 2016
Abdul-Jabbar writing book about UCLA coach John Wooden
NEW YORK - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s next book will be a fond look back at his long friendship with John Wooden, the celebrated basketball coach at UCLA. “Coach Wooden and Me” will be pu...
Sep 28, 2016
Canada unhappy in victory; Crosby still surging; Price delivers best game of World Cup
TORONTO - The Canadians edged Team Europe with a 3-1 win in Game 1 of the best-of-three World Cup of Hockey final. Here are five things to know from the victory: 1. Canada wasn’t pleased despite...
Sep 28, 2016
