Winter Sports News

A man suspected of killing one person and wounding three others in a shooting at a Colorado bar has been ordered held without bail.

Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has agreed to terms with goaltender Manny Legace on a one-year contract.

Battling hypothermia and freezing skin, a trapped teenage hunter was forced to shoot and kill a polar bear as he waited for more than a day to be rescued from a large chunk of drifting sea ice in the Canadian North.

Figure skater Sasha Cohen has withdrawn from Skate America, putting her comeback to the sport on hold.

Winning gold on consecutive days for the first time in her career was a meaningful accomplishment for Christine Nesbitt, but she's smart enough to place it in the proper context.

Steve Yzerman was nervous before making his NHL debut. He quickly found out he had nothing to worry about.

The first week of November has been much warmer than average. But you can bet that snow will be flying in a matter of weeks and now is the time to gear up for the slopes.

The Phoenix Suns came out in the daytime for the first time this season, on a Sunday afternoon on the East Coast.

The Canadian ice dancing team of Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier perform their free dance at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy Sunday in Nagano, Japan.

Zach Budish had two goals and an assist and Tony Lucia added a goal at two assists as Minnesota beat Wisconsin 5-2 Saturday to earn a split of their Western Collegiate Hockey Association series.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:09 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:09 a.m. Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said.

Katherine Reutter of the United States won the women's 1,500 meters at the short track speedskating World Cup event on Saturday, and U.S. star Apolo Anton Ohno took second in the men's 500.

Canadian Christine Nesbitt skates on her way to winning the women's 1,000 metres in Berlin on Saturday.

The lead stories had all been written. Boston College 's three power-play goals in the first period had salted away a lopsided win in what had originally promised to be a NESN marquee matchup.

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.