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Sprinter Tyson Gay injured at U.S. Olympic track and field trials

EUGENE, Ore. - Tyson Gay tumbled to the ground at the start of his 200-metre quarter-final heat at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Saturday and had to be carted off the track. Running in th...

USC advances to international eights final, to face Canada next

HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England - Southern California got out to a strong start and beat a Danish crew by 1 1/2 lengths Saturday to advance to the finals of the most prestigious race at the Henley Royal Reg...

Toronto's Daniel Nestor wins doubles championship at Wimbledon

LONDON - Daniel Nestor has his career Grand Slam. The Toronto native and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic defeated Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 7-6 (12), 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3 in...

Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. accuses HBO announcers of racial bias

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Recently retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. accused HBO's announcers of bias against him and other black fighters. Mayweather, a 31-year-old former Olympic bronze medallist fr...

Spain's Alejandro Valverde wins first Tour de France stage

PLUMELEC, France - Alejandro Valverde of Spain won the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday with a ride through flat country, the opening of a three-week race trying to restore its lustre aft...

Heikki Kovalainen earns first career pole at British GP

SILVERSTONE, England - Heikki Kovalainen captured his first Formula One pole on Saturday and will now try for his first victory in the series in British Grand Prix. The McLaren driver crossed the l...

Venus Williams wins Wimbledon final over sister Serena

LONDON - Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5. 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and seventh Grand Slam championship. This was Venus' first victory over her younger sibling in a Grand Sla...

Slovak shot putter Mikulas Konopka gets lifetime ban for doping offence

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovakian shot putter Mikulas Konopka was given a lifetime ban Saturday for a second doping offence. Slovakia's athletics federation said last month that Konopka had tested p...

Wes Cates scores late touchdown as Saskatchewan beats Lions 26-16

VANCOUVER - Just when it looked like the Saskatchewan Roughriders had run out of ammuniton the team managed to reload and hit the B.C. Lions with a fatal shot. Wes Cates scored on a 15-yard run in ...

Baseball roundup: Friday's action on the diamonds

There's no deficit too wide and no comeback too great for the Colorado Rockies. In a throwback to the pre-humidor days, Colorado homered six times and beat the Florida Marlins 18-17 on Friday night...

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Here are the sports results from Friday: CFL Montreal 38 Winnipeg 24 Saskatchewan 26 B.C. 16 American League baseball L.A. Angels 8 Toronto 2 Oakland 7 Chicago White Sox 1 Min...

Jered Weaver pitches seven-inning gem as Angels beat Blue Jays 8-2

ANAHEIM, Calif. - A.J. Burnett didn't feel like talking after giving up eight runs for the third time in six starts. The Los Angeles Angels' linescore against him said enough. Howie Kendrick drove ...

Oilers GM Kevin Lowe fires back at Brian Burke over offer sheets

EDMONTON - After a year of being criticized by Anaheim Ducks general manager Brian Burke for resurrecting the offer sheet, Kevin Lowe has shot back. In an interview with Edmonton sports station Tea...

Seon Hwa Lee has two-shot lead in Arkansas after first-round 64

ROGERS, Ark. - Stacy Lewis roused the Arkansas crowd with an impressive start. Seon Hwa Lee's finish was even better. Lee birdied five of her final six holes Friday for an 8-under 64 to take a two-...

Calvillo throws four TD passes to lead Alouettes past Blue Bombers

MONTREAL - Ben Cahoon and Danny Desriveaux shared a slotback position and both came away with a bit of glory for the Montreal Alouettes. Each was on the receiving end of one of Anthony Calvillo's f...

Canada's junior men sweep Mexico in semi, to face Cuba in final

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Canada's junior men's team swept Mexico 3-0 Friday in the semifinals of the 2008 NORCECA junior men's championships. The 25-17, 25-17, 25-13 win earned Canada a berth in...

Michael Phelps does it again, sets world record in 200-metre IM

OMAHA, Neb. - Michael Phelps set another world record. No surprise there. Dara Torres is going back to the Olympics. Who would've believed it? Fresh off an endorsement from Mark Spitz, the iconic s...

Bertocchi captures gold medal and Olympic berth in decathlon

Windsor, Ont. - Massimo Bertocchi knelt down on his knees after his gold-medal performance Friday and clutched his tiny grandmother Flaudilla in a huge hug. Just three years after coaches convinced...

DEI sweeps front row in qualifying for Coke Zero 400 at Daytona

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Although Dale Earnhardt Inc. might not be a championship contender, it showed Friday it still can be a force at Daytona International Speedway. DEI swept the front row in qual...

Jeff Overton in a share of the lead after 65 at soggy Congressional

BETHESDA, Md. - Jeff Overton doesn't feel like a different player than the guy who could couldn't make it to the weekend on the PGA Tour over the last two months. Funny how seeing the ball go in the h...

Tuft, Samplonius victorious in time trials at Canadian road championships

ST-GEORGES, Quebec - Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., won his fourth title in the men's 40-kilometre time trial Friday at the Canadian road cycling championships. Anne Samplonius of Montreal won her se...

Jessica Zelinka's left-footed leap of faith starting to pay off

WINDSOR, Ont. - Jessica Zelinka's aunt was the first to suggest she take a left-footed leap of faith. Zelinka was at the top of her game last summer, coming off a Canadian record performance and ra...

Jagr leaving for Russia, couple of trades only news on quiet day in NHL

On the fourth day, they rested. After an extrememly busy opening few days to free agency, the NHL largely fell quiet Friday. The biggest news came out of Russia, where club team Avangard Omsk annou...

Ozaki forced to speak about his lead after first round of Champions event

ENDICOTT, N.Y. - Joe Ozaki was so pumped after the first round of the Dick's Sporting Goods Open, he didn't mind doing most of the talking in his halting English. Then again, there was no alternative....

Adams sees bright side of crash at Canadian track championships

WINDSOR, Ont. - Toronto's Jeff Adams sat picking at a piece of track that was imbedded in his thumb, the result of a nasty crash at the Canadian track and field championships. He wasn't all that up...

Emotional Jagr says leaving the NHL the toughest decision in his life

An emotionally-drained Jaromir Jagr believes his decision to leave the NHL was the most difficult in his career. Yet the right one. "It wasn't an easy decision," the star winger told The Canadian P...

One more time: Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon

LONDON - Add up all of Roger Federer's greatness on grass courts, and the numbers are striking: 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon, 65 overall on the surface. Now he seeks an additional victory, a victo...

Doping-scarred Tour de France begins without some of its top stars

BREST, France - Here's what victory will look like for Tour de France organizers: The riders reach the finish line in three weeks with no doping scandals. Cycling's most prestigious race begins Sat...

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Emotional Jagr says leaving the NHL the otoughest decision" in his life

An emotionally-drained Jaromir Jagr believes his decision to leave the NHL was the most difficult in his career. Yet the right one. "It wasn't an easy decision," the star winger told The Canadian P...

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal in Wimbledon final for third straight year

LONDON - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet in their third consecutive Wimbledon final after commanding semifinal victories Friday. Federer outplayed Marat Safin 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-4 with a near...