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IIHF reschedules world junior hockey championship for mid-August in Edmonton
ZURICH - The International Ice Hockey Federation has rescheduled the 2022 world junior championship for mid-August in Edmonton. The under-20 men's tournament was originally scheduled to be played over...
Mar 19, 2022
Leclerc takes pole for Bahrain GP ahead of champ Verstappen
SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) - Ferrari's Charles Leclerc stunned Formula One champion Max Verstappen by taking a brilliant pole position Saturday for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Verstappen was .015...
Mar 19, 2022
Italy ends 7-year wait for Six Nations rugby win by beating Wales 22-21
CARDIFF, Wales (AP) - Paolo Garbisi booted the match-clinching conversion before throwing himself to the ground and bursting into tears. After seven humiliating years, Italy finally won a Six Nations ...
Mar 19, 2022
Second Brett Gallant to leave Team Gushue at end of curling season
Just days after winning the national men's curling championship, Team Brad Gushue says that second Brett Gallant will be leaving the rink at the end of the season. The St. John's, N.L.-based team conf...
Mar 19, 2022
Scots reshuffle lineup in women's world curling because of COVID-19
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Scotland called in another player ahead of its Saturday opener at the women's world curling championship because the skip and alternate have tested positive for COVID-19. Beth Fa...
Mar 19, 2022
Montreal heads toward the weekend with violent Friday night, three attempted murders
Montreal police say they are investigating three separate attempted murders that happened at almost the same time late Friday night. Sgt. Raphal Bergeron, a Montreal police spokesman, says a 19-year o...
Mar 19, 2022
Slokar a surprise winner in World Cup slalom; Canada's Nullmeyer sixth
MERIBEL, France (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin already got the overall World Cup title. Petra Vlhov had the Olympic and World Cup titles in slalom. Maybe that left space for a surprise Saturday. Andreja Slok...
Mar 19, 2022
World Cup champion Marco Odermatt wins again in giant slalom
MERIBEL, France (AP) - Marco Odermatt finished his standout World Cup ski season on top yet again Saturday. The new World Cup overall champion retained his first-run lead in a giant slalom to win in h...
Mar 19, 2022
Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts
Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...
Mar 19, 2022
4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine
HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...
Mar 19, 2022
