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NHL makes changes to draft lottery next year with bigger ones coming in 2016
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The NHL draft lottery will have a slightly different look next year and a drastically different one in 2016.
MLSE’s Leiweke focused on upcoming season, remains mum on long-term plans
TORONTO – President and chief executive officer Tim Leiweke is focused on his immediate goals at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.
MLSE looking for new chief executive after Leiweke exit plan unveiled
TORONTO – Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has cleared up the uncertainty surrounding president and chief executive officer Tim Leiweke’s long-term future with the company.
Toronto FC striker Defoe says club should honour Leiweke by making playoffs
TORONTO – Jermain Defoe would like to honour the man who brought him to Toronto with his team’s first ever playoff appearance.
Ujiri, Leiweke envision new Raptors training facility as basketball “mecca”
TORONTO – Masai Ujiri and Tim Leiweke envision a training facility that will be both the talk of the NBA and a home to young Canadian players — a “Field of Dreams” facility that they say will help bring basketball’s best to Toronto.
Love trade to Cleveland will make Wiggins a rare No. 1 pick dealt before his rookie season
MINNEAPOLIS – The wait is almost over.
US picks 12-man roster for Basketball World Cup after beating Puerto Rico 112-86 in exhibition
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The U.S. has picked the 12 players it believes can defend its world basketball title.
Love triangle: Kevin Love dealt to Cavaliers in 3-team blockbuster trade, joins LeBron James
CLEVELAND – Olympic champions together, Kevin Love and LeBron James spent the last 30 days waiting to become teammates again.
Raptors $30-million training facility approved by Toronto city council
TORONTO – The Raptors’ new training facility cleared its final hurdle Monday, receiving approval from Toronto city council.
Leiweke says decision to leave MLSE has to do with entrepreneurial dream
TORONTO – Tim Leiweke says his desire to be an entrepreneur led to his decision to leave Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.
Collision in Korea, Redux: Japan lawmaker, ex NFL player bring pro wrestling back to Pyongyang
PYONGYANG, North Korea – Led by a Japanese pro wrestler-turned-politician, about 20 mixed martial artists from around the world — including a former NFL lineman — arrived in North Korea on Thursday to put on a series of exhibition matches this weekend.
As gay rugby tournament opens, Australian Rugby Union unveils plans to tackle discrimination
SYDNEY – World Cup-winning captains John Eales and Nick Farr-Jones joined with the Australian Rugby Union on Friday for an anti-discrimination policy launch that coincided with the opening day of the Bingham Cup gay rugby tournament.
Ex NFL player, foreign pro wrestlers take ring antics to the streets of Pyongyang
PYONGYANG, North Korea – Former NFL player Bob “The Beast” Sapp and a group of brawny pro wrestlers led by a Japanese politician took their oddball attempt at sports diplomacy to the streets of Pyongyang on Friday, staging a tug-of-war and arm wrestling competition with local children before a large and somewhat bewildered crowd of spectators.
Sloppy seventh inning costs Buehrle and Jays in 6-3 loss to Yankees
TORONTO – The New York Yankees have owned pitcher Mark Buehrle his entire career, but it didn’t look that way Friday night.
Brazil holds off France, Croatia edges the Philippines at Basketball World Cup
Marcelinho Huertas had 16 points and five assists, and Brazil held on to edge France 65-63 on Saturday in its opening game at the Basketball World Cup.
CSA president dismisses accusations of discrimination against women players
VANCOUVER – Victor Montagliani, president of the Canadian Soccer Association, says it’s misinformation and hyperbole to claim women players are being discriminated against because of plans to use artificial turf at next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup.
From palling around to playing for a title, friends Williams, Wozniacki meet in US Open final
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Back in May, in the aftermath of early losses for both at the French Open, good friends Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki — who also was about a week removed from the end of her engagement to golf’s Rory McIlroy — flew from Paris to Miami and hung out.
Dustin Hoffman and director Francois Girard noodle on piano during ‘Boychoir’
TORONTO – Dustin Hoffman says he got into some competitive piano playing with Quebec director Francois Girard while shooting their new film “Boychoir.”
Derek Jeter honoured by Yankees, Jordan, Ripken in tribute as cool and collected as his career
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Derek Jeter remained as cool and collected as his play at shortstop over the past two decades when the New York Yankees honoured their retiring captain Sunday with a 45-minute ceremony that included appearances by NBA great Michael Jordan and baseball ironman Cal Ripken Jr.
Rebounding from tough Slam season, Serena Williams wins US Open for 18th Grand Slam title
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A couple of months before Serena Williams capped her dominant run to a third consecutive U.S. Open championship and 18th major singles title Sunday night, she sat down with coach Patrick Mouratoglou to decipher why the season had been such a struggle by her standards.
More Hawks fallout: Team disciplines GM Danny Ferry for racially charged comments about Deng
ATLANTA – The Atlanta Hawks are sticking with general manager Danny Ferry even though the team’s new majority owner wants him fired for racially charged comments about Luol Deng.
TV night: LeBron James, Johnny Manziel attend screening for comedy produced by James
CLEVELAND – Johnny Manziel felt as if he was watching himself.
Child abuse accusations against Vikings star create new crisis for NFL
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson’s booking on a child abuse charge Saturday has created another crisis for the embattled NFL, already derided for not responding strongly enough to acts of domestic violence by its players.
USA repeats as basketball world champions, beats Serbia 129-92
MADRID – With golden confetti raining on their heads and “Party in the U.S.A” ringing in their ears, it must have been hard for the U.S. basketball players to hear anything.