sport news: janvier 2017

mardi 31 janvier 2017

Rocky 1st period sinks Leafs in Dallas

Kari Lehtonen made 40 saves and five Dallas players scored in the first period to send the Stars past the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Tuesday night.

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Max 'Hat-cioretty' sends chapeaus flying in Montreal

Montreal Canadiens' Max Pacioretty scored his sixth career hat trick in a win over the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.

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Condon miscue costs Senators in Florida

Jonathan Marchessault scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period to lift the Florida Panthers over the Ottawa Senators 6-5 on Tuesday night.

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Jets down Blues to extend dominance over Central rivals

Mark Scheifele had a goal and an assist, Jacob Trouba scored a key third-period goal, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the St. Louis Blues 5-3 on Tuesday night.

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Max Pacioretty's hat trick leads Canadiens over Sabres

Max Pacioretty scored a hat trick as the Montreal Canadiens beat the visiting Buffalo Sabres 5-2 on Tuesday night in the first game back for both teams since the NHL all-star break.

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Jays sign reliever J.P. Howell: reports

The Toronto Blue Jays have reportedly landed free-agent left-handed reliever J.P. Howell.

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DeRozan to miss 2 more games with ankle injury

DeMar DeRozan's sprained ankle will sideline him for another two games.

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Teams beg off Trump talk at Super Bowl

While much of the world is talking about U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders, including travel restrictions on seven Muslim-majority nations, players and coaches at the Super Bowl remain silent.

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Mac Marcoux claims 4th gold, slalom title at para-alpine worlds

Canada's Mac Marcoux claimed a fourth gold medal and the slalom title at the world para-alpine skiing championships in Tarvisio, Italy.

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NHL 100: Canadiens-Maple Leafs among heated rivalries

Hockey evokes passion from players and fans alike. From the ice, to the stands, and even into the boardroom, there have been many heated NHL rivalries.

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"That's a different fast": NHL stars in awe of Oilers captain Connor McDavid

Slowing down Connor McDavid may seem like a hopeless pursuit, but foes are across the NHL are certainly trying.

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North America ponders FIFA World Cup bid in the Trump era

A widely speculated three-way hosting bid by Canada, the U.S and Mexico looks a good option for FIFA. It might yet be the only credible bid—albeit one needing federal governments' support to keep teams, officials and hundreds of thousands of visiting fans safe and secure.

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Shocking loss doesn't deter Jennifer Jones from Olympic goal

Manitoba skip Jennifer Jones is as determined as ever to achieve her ultimate goal in 2017 after failing to qualify for next month's Scotties Tournament of Hearts. "It's about performing well in December," at the 2018 Olympic curling trials in Ottawa.

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Road to Pyeongchang: U.S. catches Canada in World Cup standings

Canada is currently tied for second with the United States with 101 medals after 385 events on the all-important World Cup circuit. The World Cup circuit is a crucial performance indicator ahead of the 2018 Games in South Korea. All sports in the circuit will be part of the Olympic program.

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Sergio Garcia grants super fan's wish after 206-day Twitter campaign

Mark Johnson, a 40-year-old Englishman, just wanted one thing: To be Garcia's caddie for a day. Using the hashtag "Letmecaddieforyou" on each occasion, Johnson sent Garcia a daily tweet—some funny, some informative, some desperate—from July 9 but got no response the first 205 times. Eventually, on Day 206, Garcia relented.

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Back injury to keep Canada's Francoise Abanda out of Fed Cup

Francoise Abanda has withdrawn from Canada's upcoming Fed Cup competition in Mexico due to a back injury, Tennis Canada aid Tuesday in a release. Captain Sylvain Bruneau has called up Toronto's Katherine Sebov to replace the Montreal player at the Feb. 6-11 event at Club Deportivo la Asuncion in Metepec.

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Gloves are off: LeBron James rips Hall of Famer Charles Barkley

LeBron James is done bowing to Sir Charles. After he was criticized by Charles Barkley for questioning Cleveland's front office, James tore into the former NBA star and opinionated TV commentator on Monday night following a loss in Dallas.

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IAAF president back in spotlight for knowledge of Russian doping scandal

IAAF President Sebastian Coe is back under scrutiny regarding the extent of his knowledge of a corruption scandal in track and field following fresh evidence released by British legislators.

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Falcons worried about 'excessive' painkiller use in 2009

An email chain released in court shows Atlanta Falcons officials in 2010 were worried about the team's "excessive" reliance on painkillers to treat players the previous year, and the potential embarrassment that could cause.

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Olympic bobsled champ banned for doping

Russia's Dmitry Trunenkov, a pushman on the team that won the four-man bobsled at the Sochi Olympics, has been banned for four years for doping. The decision won't affect his gold medal.

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lundi 30 janvier 2017

Super Bowl opening night a bit more tame than usual

Monday's Super Bowl media night was a tame affair compared to the circus it has been in previous years.

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Patrick, Hischier look good in Top Prospects game

Team Cherry captain Nolan Patrick of the Brandon Wheat Kings, ranked first for the NHL draft by NHL Central Scouting, had two assists while his Team Orr and Halifax Mooseheads counterpart Nico Hischier, ranked second, had a goal and two assists.

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Tom Brady 'bans' dad from media after comments ripping Goodell

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on Monday grounded his father — humorously forbidding him from talking to the media after he ripped NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in a television interview for suspending his son.

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Mikael Kingsbury's golden Calgary streak comes to an end

In this week's Road to the Olympic Games Recap, CBC Sports' Rob Pizzo talks about Mikael Kingsbury's run of six straight golds in Calgary coming to an end, and gives an injury update on Erik Guay after a scary crash over the weekend.

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Kyle Lowry slams Donald Trump's travel ban

Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowly slammed American President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order to close U.S. borders to people from seven Muslim-majority countries after Monday's practice.

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Mac Marcoux snags 3rd gold medal at para-alpine worlds

The 19-year-old Marcoux, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., teamed with Calgary guid for his first technical gold medal of the championships. He won gold in the downhill and super-G events and silver in the super combined earlier in Tarvisio.

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Canadian soccer star Julian de Guzman calls it a career

Ottawa Fury FC captain Julian de Guzman, one of Canada's most decorated men's soccer players, has announced his retirement.

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U.S. wrestlers to compete in Iran despite Trump travel ban

The executive director of USA Wrestling said Monday that the American team still plans to compete next month in Iran, one of seven Muslim-majority countries whose citizens were temporarily banned from the U.S. by an executive order from President Donald Trump.

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Cardinals ordered to forfeit top 2 draft picks for hacking Astros

Major League Baseball has ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to forfeit their top two picks in this year's amateur draft and pay Houston $2 million US as compensation for hacking the Astros email system and scouting database.

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Rugby 7s captain Jen Kish on pitch for 1st time since Rio

Rugby sevens skipper Jen Kish returns to action this week for the first time since leading Canada to Olympic bronze in August, making her HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series season debut in Australia.

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CHL to play Top Prospects game in Quebec City despite mosque shooting

The Canadian Hockey League has announced on Monday that it will proceed with its Top Prospects game in Quebec City, despite a shooting at a mosque that left six men dead on Sunday night.

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Why is Gary Bettman stalling on the Olympics?

The supposed deadline for the NHL to decide whether it will allow its players to compete in the 2018 Olympics has arrived, and we still don't have an answer. It's fair to wonder, then, what angle the commissioner is playing, writes Tim Wharnsby.

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5 things we learned in the NHL last week: All-star edition

There was no shortage of moments that caught the attention of hockey fans over the last seven days, including the best of the best gathering in Los Angeles for the league's annual all-star festivities.

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Canada's Brett Turcotte wins X Games Snowmobile Best Trick silver

The Kamloops, B.C. native's flip in his 2nd run earned him 83.33 points, good enough for a silver medal

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5-time winner Jennifer Jones fails to qualify for Scotties

The Canadian women's curling championship will not include perennial favourite Jennifer Jones. The five-time national champion lost a playoff game in the Manitoba provincial playdowns Sunday in Winnipeg. Jones fell 8-6 in the semifinal to Darcy Robinson, who lost to Michelle Englot 8-6 in the final.

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Olympic sports roundup: Max Parrot makes X Games history

It was a jam-packed weekend of high-performance sport around the world, including a historic X Games performance by Canada's Max Parrot, gold for speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen, as well as a pair of Australians ending Canadian moguls dominance in Calgary.

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mardi 31 janvier 2017

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