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Regrouping McLaren looking forward to upcoming Monaco Grand Prix
ISTANBUL, Turkey - McLaren can take heart from a Turkish Grand Prix performance that left it closer to rival Ferrari than it has been since last season. Now, if only McLaren could catch a break. Si...
Justine Henin, top player in women's tennis, announces retirement
LIMELETTE, Belgium - Justine Henin retired from tennis Wednesday, an abrupt ending to a short and successful career in which she won seven Grand Slam singles titles and leaves while ranked No. 1. T...
Former Sask CFLer convicted of exposing women to HIV loses his appeal
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has refused to grant an HIV-positive former Canadian Football League player a new trial. Trevis Smith was convicted of two courts of aggravated sexual assa...
Top-ranked Justine Henin announces her retirement from tennis
LIMELETTE, Belgium - Justine Henin retired from tennis Wednesday, an abrupt ending to a career in which she won seven Grand Slam singles titles and leaves while ranked No. 1. The 25-year-old Belgia...
Switzerland, Norway look for upsets in world championship quarter-finals
QUEBEC - Miracle upsets are on the minds of Norway and Switzerland going into the quarter-finals of the IIHF World Hockey Championship on Wednesday. In Quebec City, the Swiss face Alexander Ovechki...
Rested Big Brown ready for this weekend's Preakness Stakes
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown is rested and ready as he prepares to head to Maryland for Saturday's Preakness. Big Brown galloped one final time around the track at Churchill ...
Annika Sorenstam: 'I wasn't afraid to push myself.'
It was just like Annika Sorenstam to start dropping hints about retiring right after one of the most spectacular seasons in LPGA history. "I don't think I'll play another 10 years because I have a ...
David Beckham gets assist but LA Galaxy lose to Whitecaps 2-1 in Edmonton
EDMONTON - David Beckham - bum foot and all - put on a show Tuesday, but it was the Vancouver Whitecaps who took care of the bottom line. Forward Eduardo Sebrango scored on a picture-perfect cross ...
Belgian media reports top-ranked player Justine Henin to quit tennis
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Justine Henin is quitting professional tennis, according to a Belgian newspaper. The 25-year-old Henin, the top-ranked player in the world, will make the announcement Wednesday,...
Belgian media reports star player Justine Henin to quit tennis
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Justine Henin is quitting professional tennis, according to a Belgian newspaper. The 25-year-old Henin, the top-ranked player in the world, will make the announcement Wednesday,...
West scores 38 points, lifts Hornets to 3-2 series lead over Spurs
NEW ORLEANS - Back pain couldn't keep David West from taking the court with aggression. The San Antonio Spurs couldn't stop him from dominating. "Back in the locker room, right before we break hudd...
West scores 38 points to lift Hornets to 3-2 series lead over Spurs
NEW ORLEANS - David West and the New Orleans Hornets sure looked happy to be at home. West had career playoff highs of 38 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots, lifting New Orleans to a 101-79...
Baseball roundup: Tuesday's action on the diamonds
Six straight wins. Eleven in a row at home. First place in the AL East. The Tampa Bay Rays realize it's only mid-May, but they're having a ball during the best start in franchise history. "I've bee...
West scores 32 points to lift Hornets to 3-2 series lead over Spurs
NEW ORLEANS - David West and the New Orleans Hornets sure looked happy to be at home. West had career playoff highs of 38 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots, lifting New Orleans to a 101-79...
Hamilton-led Pistons eliminate Magic with 91-86 win in Game 5
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons missed 64 per cent of their shots and had a rookie filling in for an all-star at point guard. It didn't matter. Detroit set an NBA playoff record with just...
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Here are the sports results from Tuesday: NHL Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 1 NBA Detroit 91 Orlando 86 New Orleans 101 San Antonio 79 Baseball American League baseball Toronto...
Stairs, Jays offence pick up pace in 5-3 victory over Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS - Kevin Slowey kept throwing, and Scott Rolen just kept fouling them off. It took Slowey 15 pitches before he finally got Rolen to groundout to shortstop in the kind of patient, hard-wo...
Penguins use defensive game to take commanding 3-0 series lead in East final
PHILADELPHIA - Mario Lemieux walked over to Michel Therrien in the hallway at Wachovia Center with a smile as big as Pennsylvania. The Hall of Famer and minority owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins sh...
Stairs, Jays offence pick it up in 5-3 road win over Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS - Fredericton's Matt Stairs homered and scored twice for the struggling Blue Jays'offence in Toronto's 5-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night. Lyle Overbay and former Twi...
Hamilton-led Pistons eliminate Magic with 91-86 victory in Game 5
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons made just enough shots and stops to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for a sixth straight year. Richard Hamilton scored 19 of his 31 points in the ...
New indictment against home run king Barry Bonds unsealed
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and that he hamper...
Canada gets ready for quarter-final with Norway at world championship
HALIFAX - One by one, they filed onto the ice with huge smiles - kids in replica Team Canada jerseys, wives clutching cameras, grandparents simply taking it all in. But there was a serious side to ...
Top stallion Storm Cat retirees from breeding after producing 160 winners
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Storm Cat, one of the top stallions in thoroughbred history, retired Tuesday after 21 years. Overbrook Farm in Lexington announced that the sire of 1994 Preakness winner Tabasco Ca...
LPGA superstar Annika Sorenstam plans to retire after this season
CLIFTON, N.J. - Annika Sorenstam ignored her notes and spoke from the heart. One of golf's greatest players was leaving the game, and she handled her retirement announcement the way she would a 10-foo...
New York Knicks introduce Mike D'Antoni as their new head coach
NEW YORK - Mike D'Antoni is bringing his high-scoring brand of basketball to a Knicks team that seems ill-suited to run it. No matter. The former Phoenix Suns coach figures he'll come up with somet...
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