Winter Sports News

The Canadian women's hockey team won the Four Nations Cup tournament with a 5-1 win over the U.S. on Saturday.

Blake Geoffrion scored two goals Friday as Wisconsin beat Minnesota 4-2, giving the Badgers their first three-game winning streak over the Golden Gophers in more than nine years.

Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The former two-time Olympian skier, who won the famed Wengen downhill as a 17-year-old, later became a movie maker and directed and filmed skiing scenes in four James Bond movies, as well as movies from several Winter Games.

Lou Lamoriello has spent more than two decades building the New Jersey Devils into a top organization.

Speedskater Denny Morrison, of Fort St. John, won sixth place in the World Cup Friday.

A 19-year-old Michigan State University student leaving a Red Wings hockey game with friends Thursday night was dragged more than a quarter-mile under a car and killed, police said.

Ashley Wagner of the United States finished first in the women's short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday, edging Miki Ando of Japan.

Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn't stop crying.

With 100 days to the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the athletes village was handed over to the Games organizers Wednesday.

Two-time Olympic silver medallist Elvis Stojko releases the first single from his new album today, called "Let Me Be The One." The album by the seven-time Canadian figure skating champion, entitled "100 Lifetimes," will be released later this fall.

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews is unsure whether professional hockey and basketball players who jumped the queue to receive their H1N1 flu vaccine broke any rules.

The Columbus Blue Jackets could leave the city if the team continues to lose an estimated $12 million each year, according to a report released Thursday by the Columbus Chamber.

U.S. Figure Skating announced Wednesday that San Jose will be the host city of its 2012 national championships.

A A Taylor Swift on - SNL' Taylor Swift chats about pulling double duty as host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" and which songs she will perform.

A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

Steve Yzerman told Hockey Night in Canada Radio on Tuesday that he has been impressed with some of the younger Canadian players around the NHL so far this season.

Liambas suspended for season Kitchener Rangers hockey player Ben Fanelli is shown in a handout photo.

Flames captain Jarome Iginla answered reporters' questions yesterday about the team receiving H1N1 flu shots at a private clinic without having to wait in line.

A former Grosse Pointe South High School hockey coach could have an extended stay in the penalty box.

Washington's Alex Ovechkin has missed only four games, and just two because of injury, since coming to the NHL in 2005.