Sharks fined $100,000 for GM's comments
The NHL fined the San Jose Sharks $100,000 on Saturday for general manager Doug Wilson's comments criticizing the league for forward Raffi Torres' ...

Russia's Sochi busy storing snow for 2014 Olympics
In April, at the end of another seemingly endless winter, most Russians are eager to get rid of the piles of snow that have clogged their cities and ...

Iginla, Penguins embrace expectations after trade
Sidney Crosby knows the Pittsburgh Penguins will be considered Stanley Cup contenders so long as his familiar No. 87 hangs in the dressing room.

Penguins acquire Jarome Iginla from Flames
Jarome Iginla spent 16 years chasing a Stanley Cup in Calgary. The Penguins think he'll only need three months playing alongside the likes of Sidney ...

An Olympic life and 7 vital minutes at Sochi Games
For Florent Amodio, it may be now or never. The French figure skater was just 19 at his first Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010, old enough to ...

4 years later, Kim remains Olympic gold standard
Kim Yu-na was in a class all her own ahead of the Vancouver Olympics, so far superior there was no way anyone was going to steal that gold medal from ...

Kim wins women's title at 1st worlds in 2 years
The Queen has her title back. And another Olympic gold medal might not be far behind. Back at the World Figure Skating Championships after a two-year ...

Memorable skates put Kim, Davis-White in control
There are some programs skaters forget as soon as the season is over. There are some they'll remember with fondness, maybe even cherish. And then ...

Tough winter forces owls south in hunt for food
It's been a tough winter for owls in parts of North America, and the evidence is turning up on roadsides, at bird feeders and at a wildlife ...
Italy's Kostner has a world of love for skating
Carolina Kostner could have taken her gold medal from last year's world championships and run. She finally had the title many had been predicting for ...

Quadruple jump is the key in men's figure skating
No quad, no medal. And one might not be enough. The four-revolution jump has been around longer than some of the top men at this week's World Figure ...
Hockey coach gets 15 days in jail for tripping
A Vancouver pee-wee hockey coach has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for tripping a player during a postgame handshake. Martin Tremblay swept out ...

Autopsy fails to find Los Angeles tank death cause
An autopsy on a Canadian tourist's body failed to determine whether she was killed or died accidentally in a giant water cistern on top of a downtown ...

More tests needed in LA hotel water tank death
More testing must be done to determine the cause of death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank atop a ...
Calgary's 1988 Winter Games legacy thriving
The founding fathers of the 1988 Winter Olympics had financial foresight. While many recent Olympic host cities build temporary sports venues or ...

Vonn undergoes surgery on right knee
The surgeon who operated on Lindsey Vonn's right knee was "optimistic for a full recovery" after she shredded two ligaments during a crash last week ...
Prime-time coverage of Winter Games to start early
Prime-time television coverage of the Winter Olympics will start a day early next year in Sochi — with Shaun White the likely star. NBC will air ...

Snowmobiler in critical condition after Winter X
Snowmobiler Caleb Moore was in critical condition Tuesday in a Colorado hospital after a dramatic crash at the Winter X Games in Aspen, and a relative ...

AP IMPACT: Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries ...

10 things to know about the upcoming NHL season
The lockout that lasted 119 days has ended, the new collective bargaining agreement is in place and the NHL is finally about to play games again after ...

Maple Leafs fire GM Brian Burke as season nears
Brian Burke's brash and outspoken style wasn't a good fit for the new corporate owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs fired their general ...

Strong earthquake shakes parts of Alaska, Canada
A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging ...

Survivors of Ore. bus crash prepare to go home
Some of the survivors of a fatal bus crash on a rural Oregon highway retrieved their passports and other belongings Tuesday so they can finish their ...

Survivors of fatal Ore. bus crash say some ejected
Survivors of a bus crash that killed nine people on a partly icy section of interstate in rural Eastern Oregon said Monday some passengers were thrown ...

9 killed in tour bus crash along Oregon highway
A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and 100 feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more ...