NEW YORK — Major League Baseball proposed delaying the start of a salary cap until 2028, saying teams have too many commitments for next season that wouldn't allow them to reduce spending quickly enough. A day after the start of free agent negotiations for the 2026-27 offseason, owners on ...
MONTREAL (AP) — The Winnipeg Jets had every reason to stop believing. They were down four goals in the third period, less than three minutes from a 10th straight defeat, in their fifth game in eight nights. Their coach was on the hot seat. Their season had been rocked from the start when ...
HOUGHTON — The defending state champion Houghton Gremlins hockey team will hit the ice Friday as they begin their title defense with the annual Joe Butkovich Scramble at Dee Stadium. The Gremlins will be a vastly different team from the one that ran the table last season, but that is a big ...
DUESSELDORF, Germany — The pressure on the International Ice Hockey Federation grew Wednesday as two major sponsors of the men's world championship said they would review their involvement if Russia takes part. The tournament's main sponsor, automaker Skoda, says it will "reassess" its involvement if Russia plays, and another longtime backer, Strauss, says it would refuse to have its logo shown. A Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling last week obliged the IIHF to lift its exclusion of Russian national teams, which had been in place since 2022 over the war in Ukraine. Almost half ...
LIV Golf wanted to "destroy" the European tour, the head of the worldwide circuit has said as he prepares to welcome back many of the players who defected to the Saudi-funded breakaway league over the past four years. The professional golfing landscape was upended by the formation of LIV, which took some of the top stars from the European and PGA Tours after they accepted huge sums by PIF — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund that bankrolled the project. Now, the breakaway league is battling to simply survive — in the form of a watered-down "LIV 2.0" version and without Saudi ...
HOUGHTON — The Kingsford Flivvers football team won the WestPAC Copper Division, but the Calumet Copper Kings placed four players on the All-Conference First Team. Menominee landed two major awards as senior Jackson Myszak was named Offensive Player of the Year, and senior Xander Jurkewicz was named Defensive Player of the Year. Kingsford senior Preston DeClark was named Lineman of the Year. Coach Mark Novara was named Coach of the Year. Negaunee senior Evan DellAngelo was named Special Teams Player of the Year. Calumet junior Joe Halonen made the First Team as a guard. On ...
