Canada wins, seeks 4th straight title
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Three-time defending champion Canada beat the United States 4-1 on Friday and will face Sweden in the final of the world junior hockey championships.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (CP) - Most of the players on the Canadian junior men&#39;s hockey team were 11 years old when their country last won gold at the world junior championship.
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Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport won her fourth consecutive WTA championship yesterday, defeating second-seeded Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 in the Western and Southern Women&#39;s Open finals in Mason, Ohio.
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Goals by Clarke MacArthur, Sidney Crosby and Cameron Barker led Canada in a dominating first period performance that became a 9-0 victory Tuesday night over Germany in the World Junior Hockey Championship.
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Vincent Lecavalier&#39;s goal 3:45 into overtime earned Canada a nail-biting 4-3 victory over the Czech Republic on Saturday and a place in the final of the World Cup of Hockey.
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ATHENS - Australia won the Olympic men&#39;s hockey title for the first time in history on Friday, beating defending champions the Netherlands 2-1 with a golden goal.
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Britain's Matthew Pinsent won his fourth successive rowing gold medal in thrilling style when he led his British coxless fours to victory in a photo-finish against world champions Canada.
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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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Rower Matthew Pinsent wins his fourth gold medal Saturday after his boat edges Canada by .08 seconds in the coxless four.
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When Wayne Gretzky began assembling Team Canada&#39;s roster last spring for the World Cup of Hockey, he knew that nothing short of victory would appease a nation that had been stunned by the Americans in 1996.
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Matthew Pinsent won his fourth successive Olympic gold medal amid tears of joy and relief yesterday as the British coxless four beat Canada in one of the closest rowing finals ever.
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(CP) - The numbers do not look good for Canada as it faces a must-win World Cup soccer qualifier in hostile Honduras on Saturday. Canada (0-2-1) has just one point halfway through the semifinal round of qualifying
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Team USA goaltender Chanda Gunn makes the save off Team Canada Colleen Sostorics as USA&#39;s Katie King looks on during first period Four Nations Tournament action Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004 in Burlington, Vt.
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Sweden shut out defending champion Czech Republic 4-0 Sunday to win hockey&#039;s world championship, becoming the first country to win that title and Olympic gold in the same year.
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ATHENS : The United States defeated Lithuania 104-96 here to win the Olympic men&#39;s basketball bronze medal game. The US team of National Basketball Association stars had been seeking a fourth consecutive gold
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Canada now meet the Czech Republic on Saturday for a place in Tuesday&#39;s final while defending champions the United States face-off against Finland on Friday.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado  - American Evan Lysacek displayed the grit of a champion to win the Four Continents men's title on Friday, collecting his second major championship in as many weeks.