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Former Storm star Sue Bird joins team's ownership group
Former Seattle Storm star Sue Bird joined the team's ownership group ahead of the 2024 WNBA season. Financial terms were not disclosed for Bird, who played her entire career with the Storm after they selected her with the top overall pick of the 2002 ...
Jimmy Butler trolls Celtics after Heat's upset victory
Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler hasn't played in the team's Eastern Conference first-round series due to injury, however that hasn't prevented him from taking a shot at the top-seeded Boston Celtics. Butler trolled the Celtics on Instagram after the ...
Panthers' Kyle Okposo set for first playoff game in 8 years
Florida Panthers forward Kyle Okposo will play in the postseason for the first time in eight years on Thursday when he takes the ice for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference first-round series versus the host Tampa Bay Lightning. Okposo, 36, last ...
Olympics-Surfer Moore braced for Teahupo'o swansong
By Rory Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympic champion Carissa Moore hopes Teahupo'o, the infamous Tahitian break where this year's Paris Games will hold its surfing competition, does not live up to its reputation in what is expected to be her ...
Paul Flemming's Canadian rink off to world senior curling playoffs
Canada's Paul Flemming rink wrapped up preliminary play with a 6-0 record at the world senior men's curling championships in Ostersund, Sweden, on Thursday. Flemming and his Halifax Curling Club team of third Peter Burgess, second Martin Gavin, lead ...
Thanks for the memories, Bob: Newfoundland hockey broadcaster Bob Cole has died
Bob Cole was the voice of a generation of hockey fans. On Saturday nights, those fans would listen and watch as the boy from Topsail narrated their favourite teams playing their favourite sport as the play-by-play voice for CBC’s Hockey Night in ...
Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90
Bob Cole, an iconic voice of Hockey Night In Canada , has died at age 90. The man who called so many huge games on radio and then television, from the 1972 Canada-Russia series, to Red Army versus the Philadelphia Flyers, to Stanley Cup wins by ...
Soccer-Wrexham to play Bournemouth, Whitecaps in US summer tour
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wrexham will play Bournemouth and Major League Soccer (MLS) side Vancouver Whitecaps as part of their North American tour in July, the Welsh club said on Thursday after they secured back-to-back promotions earlier this month.
Olympics-Paris to face major disruption ahead of Games opening ceremony, says police chief
By Vincent Daheron PARIS (Reuters) - Paris will face major disruption ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony along the Seine on July 26, as organisers ramp up security measures to safeguard the event, the city's police chief said on Thursday. ...
Golf-Clutch Pro Tour to be included in World Rankings
(Reuters) - The Clutch Pro Tour will be included in the world ranking system, Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) said on Thursday. The Tour was created in 2019 for lower level professionals, especially in the United Kingdom, and now acts as a ...