Winter Sports News

Red Wings great Steve Yzerman, a winner of three Stanley Cups and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, will participate in the 2013 Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings Alumni Showdown, the Wings announced today.

When the Anaheim Ducks play the Los Angeles Kings at Dodger Stadium, members of the Phoenix Coyotes ownership group will have an up-close view of the proceedings.

The grandmother of U.S. Olympic Luge team member Erin Hamlin has been killed in a car crash in upstate New York.

In this Sept. 30, 2013, file photo, Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek poses for a portrait at the 2013 Team USA Media Summit, in Park City, Utah.

It's analysis time again. The big news in ladies skating this past weekend was the fact that the two favorites for Olympic gold were both competing at the same time, though in different countries.

New Westminster's Jon Cornish was named the winner of the Lou Marsh award as Canada's most outstanding athlete on Monday Photograph by: Record file photo New Westminster's Jon Cornish was named the winner of the Lou Marsh award as Canada's most outstanding athlete on Monday Jon Cornish has come full circle, going from B.C. high school player of the ... (more)

Two veteran U.S. snowboarders missed the season-opening FIS World Cup snowboard cross event in Montafon, Austria on Saturday.

The temporary arrangement isn't the final word in a custody clash that has become a public drama for the skier and a cause of concern among women's rights activists.

Owens' 1936 Olympic gold fetches $1.4m LOS ANGELES: An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold at auction for $1,466,574, the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympic memorabilia.

Despite his promise to be out and proud at the Sochi Olympics this February, openly gay New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup failed to qualify for the games.

From front to back, the United States' Steven Holcomb, Curtis Tomasevicz, Steven Langton and Christopher Fogt climb in to their sled during 4 man bobsled competition at the bobsledding World Cup event Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in Park City, Utah.

Well, I really have no idea what's coming in the third period. Playing defensively tends to invite pressure, but the rewards are great when you get it right.

Swiss racer Carlo Janko returns to Beaver Creek, where he won three races in once weekend in 1999.

Brad Jacobs talks to his dad as his sister Lindsey, his mom Cindy and his wife Shawna look on after his team defeated John Morris 7-4 in the men\'s final at the 2013 Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Winnipeg, Sunday, December 8, 2013.

She also had this to say after coming within a second of winner Lara Gut of Switzerland on Sunday: "I'm ready for Sochi."

Gut finished in 1 minute, 22.86 seconds to edge Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein, while Anna Fenninger of Austria was third in 1:23.19.

She led a 1-2 finish for the United States, capturing her third win in four races in the event.

Defending overall champion Martin Fourcade of France took the men's biathlon World Cup pursuit Sunday for his third win of the Olympic season, while Synnoeve Solemdal of Norway defended her win from last year.

Japan's figure skating star Mao Asada vowed Sunday to continue attempting the risky triple axel as her ultimate weapon to strike Olympic gold, despite failing to land it cleanly in competition this season.

The cross country skier from Oyne, Aberdeenshire, is the top-ranked female sprinter in the UK and, after missing out on the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she is determined to be on the plane to Russia with the rest of Team GB two months from now.