WINTHROP - When coaches decide to walk away from the sport they love, some don't stroll too far. As basketball season kicked off with the first day of practices Monday, Winthrop's Ray Convery and Lewiston's Mike McGraw found themselves stepping back ...
Read moreCALGARY–The Calgary Stampeders won the battle on defence and ended years of CFL playoff frustration with a 22-18 win over the B.C. Lions in yesterday's West Division final. The Stamps advanced to the Grey Cup for the first time since 2001 and will ...
Read moreEach Tuesday, the Star-Telegram's Ray Buck and NBC 5's Newy Scruggs go at it in a point-counterpoint on sporting issues. | E-mail Ray Buck at rbuck@star-telegram.com. | Newy can be reached at his Web site, www.newdawg.com. One critic not chugging the ...
Read moreSyracuse, N.Y. -- Sorry about the blank space here on Wednesday, but life happened . . . and the next thing you know, it was Thursday. Anyway, I'm back here in the online-commentary saddle, and I have a confession to make: As I'm a firm believer that ...
Read moreMichael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune Deuce McAllister and the Saints running backs performed well in limited use last week. The New Orleans Saints' disappointing 34-20 loss to the Falcons generated an unprecedented number of questions to this week's ...
Read moreSYDNEY cleaned up the Melbourne races again on Saturday with Yesterday, Captain Bax, Caymans and Bernicia scoring, and coming hot on the heels of eight wins by our horses on Derby day and the victories of Viewed in the Melbourne Cup and Samantha Miss ...
Read moreJim “Hoss” Brock, ever the PR man, never let Dallas’ sometimes-miserable January weather get in the way of his Cotton Bowl Classic, the big New Year’s Day college football game he ran from 1979 to 1992. “We’d tell ’em the weather is ...
Read more6:30 p.m. — UPT Free Texas Hold 'Em at Icehouse Cafe, 118 University Ave. 572-9799. 7 p.m. — Celtic Music at Looking Glass, 329 Warfield Blvd. 8-11 p.m. — Ladies' Night and Live DJ at Golden Nugget, 110 Tiny Town Road. 431-0005. 8 p.m ...
Read moreLast night's game between the Maple Leafs and Canucks could also have been called Hockey Night In Punjab . The CBC, picking up on an experiment from last season's Stanley Cup, brought Parminder Singh of Toronto – who has done some Raptors games in ...
Read moreThe primary storyline of this mid-November clash between NFC East foes centers around quarterback Tony Romo's anticipated return to the Dallas lineup following a three-game absence due to a broken finger on his throwing hand. Another intriguing ...
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