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North Vancouver’s Matthew Hutchinson — a volunteer firefighter and hockey player — is one of three people who has died at a residence in Geneseo, N.Y., according to local police. The 24-year-old was a student at the State University of New York in Geneseo. At 6 a.m. ET on Sunday the Geneseo Police Department arrived at a residence at 18 Wadsworth Street and discovered three bodies following a 911 call made by a member of one…

The Michigan-Ohio State rivalry got ugly on the ice. (FSN North/@cjzero) Everyone knows the rivalry between the Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes on the gridiron, but the bad blood translates to the ice, too. The longtime on-ice combatants played a heated and often bizarre home-and-home series this weekend and things got a little testy. The two-game set ended in a split with Ohio State winning in a shootout Friday…

It has been a long time, Rams, so long that the Dodgers played a game in the Coliseum more recently than you have. It has been a long time too, Rams, since you had a winning season. That was 2003, when Eric Gagne won the National League Cy Young Award and the Angels still played at Edison Field. The Dodgers have had 10 winning seasons since then. So have the…

Sammy Sosa has to come clean. A few different connotations in that sentence, aren’t there? Will he do it? Will he publicly admit that he used performance-enhancing drugs to help him hit all those home runs? That seems to be the only thing separating him from the Cubs’ good graces. Chairman Tom Ricketts reiterated Saturday at the Cubs Convention what he had said in an interview with 670 The Score…

West Seattle Blog 8 hours ago Noon-3 pm today at Kitty Harbor. … See MoreSee Less We had a fantastic adoption day at Kitty Harbor…. 59 kitties are in their new homes tonight! A HUGE Thank You to all the adopters, Prevent Homeless Pets, the volunteers and our Facebook fans. We have 9 amazing kitties that are still looking for their new forever homes and will be available for adoption…

As noted by our compadres over at Eye On Football, the Rams have left St. Louis is favor of Los Angeles — a move that’s a source of vague and glancing discomfort in St. Louis and ringing apathy in L.A. The move has also rendered useless two or maybe three piles of St. Louis Rams jerseys and t-shirts. To the end of un-burdening the people of these suddenly unwanted textiles,…

Baseball teams are paying as much as 100 percent more to rent diamonds across the county this season, a change that has already contributed to reduced use at one field and could lead to more cutbacks. The biggest increase comes at Gene Lobe Field No. 1 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, home to the Kitsap BlueJackets, where rates jumped from $15…

The cache of documents passed to the BBC and Buzzfeed News include the findings of an investigation set up in 2007 by the ATP Secret files exposing evidence of widespread suspected match fixing at the top level of world tennis, including at Wimbledon, can be revealed by the BBC and BuzzFeed News. Over the last decade 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to…

Sports Authority, the U.S. sporting goods retailer with more than 450 stores, told Reuters on Friday it would miss a key debt interest payment, a decision that could move it closer to bankruptcy. The woes of Englewood, Colorado-based Sports Authority, owned by private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners LP, underscore the fierce competition retailers face from industry giants Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Amazon.com Inc. “Although Sports Authority currently has…

Swansea City are set to appoint former Udinese manager Francesco Guidolin as their new head coach. BBC Wales Sport understands the Italian will work alongside Alan Curtis until the end of the season. Guidolin, 60, has previously managed several clubs in Italy, including Palermo and Parma, as well as French league side Monaco. Swansea, who sacked Garry Monk on 9 December, currently…

DENVER (AP) — Get ready for Brady-Manning XVII. Peyton Manning earned one more and possibly final game against his rival by leading the Denver Broncos to a come-from-behind 23-16 win over Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. That set up an AFC championship game next weekend in Denver against Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots (13-4). Manning and Brady have squared off 16 times…

DENVER (CBS4)– Demaryius Thomas’s mom is sporting her son’s jersey at Sunday’s AFC Divisional Playoff game in Denver. It’s the first time Katina Smith has seen her son play professional football. Smith and Thomas were pictured together on Sunday morning as he was getting ready for the Steelers-Broncos matchup at Sports Authority at Mile High. Smith watched from a suite as Thomas hit the field to warm up before the…

Those who knew the late Curtis Turner best said he didn’t know a lick about the mechanics behind a race car. But they are also in agreement about one thing: Turner – one of five Class of 2016 inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame – sure could drive them fast. “He’s probably one of the best natural race car drivers NASCAR’s ever had,” former Charlotte Motor Speedway president H.A….

The sound of a group of kids screaming “Happy birthday, Mack” echoed at the indoor soccer complex at Holuba Hall. With soccer balls in hand, a group of about two dozen kids learning goalkeeping skills huddled on part of the artificial soccer field. On the count of three, they each thew the balls in the air while simultaneously yelling the birthday call. Mack Brady would have turned 12 Saturday. His…

January 15, 2016_Carlsbad, California_USA_| Hitting the wall are Kyle Plouffe, left, and Blake Scrable, at right, during a practice session of the Carlsbad United Hockey team at Icetown Carlsbad. |_Mandatory Photo Credit: Photo by Charlie Neuman/San Diego Union-Tribune/©2016 San Diego Union-Tribune, LLCSan Diego Union-Tribune January 15, 2016_Carlsbad, California_USA_| Hitting the wall are Kyle Plouffe, left, and Blake Scrable, at right, during a practice session of the Carlsbad United Hockey team…

Rico Abreu went back-to-back in the Chili Bowl, winning one of the most prestigious Midget Car races in the country for the second consecutive year.   Abreu — who on Friday announced his full-time ride with ThorSport Racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series — began his ascent into NASCAR with his 2015 win, and he repeated the feat this year in a championship race that started Saturday night and ended…

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Luis Clemente couldn’t help but think of his father as he watched the Field of Dreams Ghost Players conduct their world-renowned baseball clinic and comedy routine last winter. Nine ballplayers from Dubuque County paid their own way to Puerto Rico to spread a positive message through baseball to impoverished youth often tempted by the lure of drugs and gangs. The tour fit perfectly with the life’s work of Roberto Clemente….

Click photo to enlarge Tony DeRusso, left, executive director of the Antioch Babe Ruth League, and Anthony Davis, the operations director, both of Brentwood, sits on rolls of artificial turf that await being rolled onto many of the Babe Ruth fields off Auto Center Drive in Antioch, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Many changes are in store for the badly deteriorated fields. New sod and artificial sod await being…