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NHL owners, players meet late into the night again
NHL labor talks that began during the day Wednesday stretched to nearly nine hours, and both sides planned to meet again later Thursday. It isn't ...
NHL talks resume with owners, players meeting
The best news on the 80th day of the NHL lockout was that hockey owners and players did most of their talking in front of each other instead of making ...
Hockey talks resume Tuesday with owners, players
The cast of characters in the ongoing NHL labor saga is about to get a bit of a makeover, at least for one day. So far, Commissioner Gary Bettman and ...
NHL owners, players set to meet without leaders
Traditional labor talks have made little progress in the ongoing NHL lockout, so the league and the players' association are going to try something ...
Child star of 'Beasts' back in bayou
She was just nominated for a Spirit Award for her leading role in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," and there's buzz that Golden Globe and Oscar nods ...
Wild coyotes 'kind of chilling' by Wrigley Field
Wild baseball fans might be a standard sight at Wrigley Field, but a pair of wild coyotes milling around Chicago's historic ballpark — surrounded on ...
'Moonrise,' 'Silver Linings' lead Spirit Awards
The oddball romances "Moonrise Kingdom" and "Silver Linings Playbook" picked up five nominations each Tuesday to lead the Spirit Awards honoring ...
NHL cancels games through Dec. 14, All-Star game
More than a third of the NHL regular season and two of its marquee events have now been called off. The league announced its latest round of ...
NHL labor talks resume for 1st time in 8 days
If the first bargaining session in eight days between the NHL and the players' association made any headway, neither side tipped its hand. A large ...
No progress made in new round of NHL labor talks
As quickly as NHL labor negotiations got going again, they came to a screeching halt. Now there is no telling when the league and the players will ...
NHL, union to return to bargaining table Tuesday
The NHL and the players' association stuck to their word and made quick plans to get back to the bargaining table. After all-day negotiations ...
NHL and union make progress, will meet again soon
A secret, long-awaited bargaining session has done some good in the NHL labor fight — so much so that the sides already have plans to get back to the ...
NFL and players' union donating $1 million
The NFL and the players' union are combining to donate $1 million to the American Red Cross to help in the recovery efforts in the Northeast after ...
NHL on ice: All games canceled through November
It will be December before the NHL returns to the ice, and that is a best-case scenario. With no deal in place, and no plans to resume negotiations ...
NHL, union still talking but not negotiating
While the NHL and the players' association are keeping the lines of communication open, they don't seem to be moving any closer to getting back to the ...
On Ice: NHL wipes out 53 more games through Nov. 1
The NHL's next cuts will be the deepest and most costly. With only days remaining to make a deal with the players' association on a new collective ...
No. 2 Oregon runs over Arizona State 43-21
Oregon lost a fumble on its second play, setting up a touchdown and a quick 7-0 deficit. Cause for concern? Yeah, right. Arizona State could have ...
Union views NHL plan as small step forward
NHL labor negotiations will resume Thursday after the players' union reviewed management's proposal and saw it as only a small step forward to ending ...
Modano tops list of new US Hockey Hall of Famers
Mike Modano made his mark long before he and the Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas and brought hockey to the Sun Belt. Once he got there in ...
All quiet on hockey front 4 weeks into lockout
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman still hasn't spoken to players' union chief Donald Fehr since a brief meeting Wednesday, but negotiators on both sides ...
NHL, union talk again _ but not about money
Manny Malhotra is spending his days in the boardroom instead of on the ice in North America or Europe. The Vancouver Canucks forward is craving the ...
Bear Grylls making competition series for NBC
Bear Grylls will soon have some company on his in-the-wild adventures. NBC said Monday that it is making a competition series with Grylls. He is the ...
Blues part ways with team president John Davidson
John Davidson, who spent six years rebuilding the St. Louis Blues as president of hockey operations, is leaving the team. Davidson, 59, and the team ...
One-game wild-card playoffs: Dramatic, but fair?
By sometime Friday night, either Chipper Jones will be out of baseball or the defending World Series champion Cardinals will be out of the playoffs.