Archives for January, 2007
Outfielder Chris Young reached terms Monday on a five-year contract extension with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but the extension contains a club option for 2014.
The United States defeated Canada 4-3 on Saturday to win the gold medal at the women’s world hockey championship in Harbin, China.
Jenny Potter scored a pair of power-play goals while Natalie Darwitz added two more at even strength to pace the United States to its second gold medal in tournament history.
The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop on Tuesday amid reports that the International Olympic Committee will consider cancelling the international leg of the relay in light of anti-China protests.
News of a possible review of the relay comes in the wake of violent protests by pro-Tibet activists who have interrupted the Olympic torch runs in London and Paris.
The Associated Press quoted International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge on Tuesday as saying he was “deeply saddened” by the demonstrations and that the IOC’s executive board would discuss abandoning the international leg in a meeting Friday.
By Gary Slatter
A long time ago, in the Bahamas, I was lucky enough to play with Mr. Clifford Roberts who was at the time the Chairman of The Board of Governors of Augusta National Golf Club. He spent January on Grand Bahama Island prior to going back to Georgia to run the annual Masters Tournament. His first “duty” was to send out the actual invitations to participate. And I got to play with him on the Wednesdays he was in Freeport. Cool, for a young Canadian.
DEXTER Blackstock secured his third goal against Hull City in three attempts to help Rangers to a creditable draw at the Championship high-flyers.
Blackstock somehow managed to bundle the ball home from close range, which looked another in a string of adverts for goal-line technology. The linesman made his decision with immediate effect, with Rangers on the brink of a memorable win.
Only another last minute goal, this time going against the R`s, was to be their undoing. Ex-Brentford defender Michael Turner popped up in the dying stages to tie the game and snatch two points away from the resilient grasp of the Rangers rearguard.
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The Oakland Athletics failed to hit a home run, instead relying on a clutch triple to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-8 in Tuesday’s opener of a three-game series at the Rogers Centre.
Ryan Sweeney broke an 8-8 deadlock with a two-out triple off reliever Jeremy Accardo that scored Kurt Suzuki in the top of the ninth inning.
J.J. Redick was arrested for drunken driving early this morning and this was kind of a shocking event that youwould find his name associated with. I must say today’s younger stars just think they can do whatever they want. These kids seem to think they can do whatever they want and it just doesn’t work that way. I don’t know how much this will affect his draft status just yet.
Hopefully this mistake won’t hurt him and he can come back stronger from this and show people it was just a mistake that won’t be repeated. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Athletes on Canada’s national snowboarding team are paying their own way to World Cup events or missing them altogether because the Canadian Snowboard Federation has run out of cash.
Rokocoko: wrist operation
We have consulted with the All Black medical staff throughout this process and expect that Joe will most likely be out of rugby for three to four months after his operation, which will be done later this week.
Aaron Hunt is a key contributor to the B.C. Lions’ pass rush and the Canadian Football League team let him know as much on Thursday.
General manager and coach Wally Buono signed the six-foot-three, 270-pound defensive lineman to a contract extension.
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