Winter Sports News

The Sharks will be looking for ways to shut down the NHL's leading scorer Thursday night when Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby makes his first appearance here since November 2009.

Andrei Markov scored in the sixth round of the shootout, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the NHL-leading Anaheim Ducks 4-3 Wednesday night for their sixth victory in eight games.

The Slovenian skier raced down the course 1 minute, 12.76 seconds. Nadia Fanchini of Italy was second, and Lara Gut of Switzerland was third.

Drew Carey has already set a goal for himself as he approaches the new season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars : survive the first week.

A number of environmental groups converged on the statehouse Wednesday to ask lawmakers to protect energy efficiency jobs in the state.

In the week before the NHL trade deadline, a total of 11 goaltenders were dealt.

ABC says it will air figure-skating specials with Sochi Olympic gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White among the performers.

The Team Canada goalie filled in at practice for the National Hockey League while the Oilers waited for Viktor Fasth to arrive after a trade with Anaheim.

The Los Angeles Kings, hoping to mirror the success they had from their last big trade-deadline deal with Columbus, bolstered their offence by acquiring former scoring whiz Marian Gaborik from the Blue Jackets on Wednesday.

Martin Brodeur made 20 saves in what might have been his last game with the Devils, and Stephen Gionta scored the tiebreaking goal with under 37 seconds left to lift New Jersey to a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.

Two parades are scheduled for later this month in the Adirondacks to honor the region's athletes who competed at the Winter Olympics in Russia, including medal winners Andrew Weibrecht and Erin Hamlin.

Russia ice hockey coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov is leaving his job after the home team's disappointing quarterfinals exit at the Sochi Olympics.

Japanese skater Daisuke Takahashi will sit out the figure skating world championships because of an injured right knee.

It's good to be No. 1 but John Morris and his B.C. rink aren't looking too far ahead as the Canadian men's curling championship enters the home stretch of round-robin play this week.

Several big-name hockey players were on the move Tuesday, 24 hours before time for dealing runs out, including star goalie Roberto Luongo, who was ushered out of Vancouver and sent back to Florida eight years after he was sent packing.

Poland's Kamil Stoch, centre, celebrates winning the large hill ski jumping FIS World Cup in Kuopio, Finland, Tuesday.

They proved that they can dazzle us on ice -- and with each other. But how will Olympic champions Charlie White and Meryl Davis fare as rivals on "Dancing With the Stars"? White and Davis, who just capured gold medals in Sochi as the world's best ice dancers, are among the Season 18 "DWTS" cast, as announced Tuesday morning on "Good Morning ... (more)

Olympic gold medallist ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White will not compete at the world championships in Japan this month.

Buoyed by two gold medals from the Sochi Olympics, Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen says he will continue for two more years and not retire this season as planned.

Surging into and out of the Olympic break, the Minnesota Wild have created a significant cushion between them and their competitors for the two Western Conference wild-card playoff spots.