A Russian jet carrying a top hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. Two other people on board were injured critically.
In an effort to reduce the number of concussions and subconcussive hits, Ivy League football teams will be allowed to have just two full-contact practices a week, three less than the NCAA allows.
This was one nifty assist by an NHL player.
This was one nifty assist by an NHL player.
Finland scored five late goals to beat Sweden 6-1 on Sunday and claim its second title at the ice hockey world championship.
Alex Ovechkin is set to join Russia's team at the ice hockey world championship in Slovakia after his Washington Capitals were eliminated from the NHL playoffs.
When North Dakota's state board of higher education voted to phase out the "Fighting Sioux" last year, that seemed to signal the end of the lengthy battle over the University of North Dakota's nickname and logo. Except that it didn't.
After he was wounded in Iraq, Joseph Bowser was told he could keep his right leg or have it amputated. If it were amputated, he was told, he would be able to keep doing all things he used to do.
