National Hockey League
NHL owners make new offer in bid to end lockout
Dec 28, 2012 16:52 EST
The NHL has made a new "comprehensive" contract proposal to players, the latest bid to end the lockout that threatens to force the cancellation of the entire season.
NHL lockout hits 100th day with no end in sight
Dec 24, 2012 13:29 EST
National Hockey League players and club owners reached the 100th day of the league's shutdown over money issues Monday with no talks planned and shrinking hope to salvage even a shortened season.
Games wiped out through January 14 by lockout
Dec 20, 2012 17:11 EST
The National Hockey League wiped out two more weeks of scheduled regular-season games on Thursday due to the ongoing lockout in a money dispute with players, having now lost 625 games through January 14.
Hockey owners file lawsuit over union disbanding worries
Dec 14, 2012 20:19 EST
The National Hockey League pressed a legal case against the players union on Friday amid talk players would vote to disband the union as a tactic in the money dispute that has shut down the NHL.
Some of the more surprising sporting moments of 2012
Dec 13, 2012 21:36 EST
All too often, sport has an unfortunate tendency to become too deadly serious for its own good, but occasionally a touch of humour or an unlikely tale rears its head and offers a timely antidote to the run-of-the-mill diet of results and match reports. Here are a few examples that caught the imagination this year:
Little progress in NHL lockout talks
Dec 12, 2012 23:07 EST
Representatives from the National Hockey League and the players' union met with mediators for six hours but made little progress toward ending a three-month-old labor dispute.
NHL eliminates more regular season games
Dec 10, 2012 18:08 EST
The National Hockey League wiped out more games from the 2012-13 regular season schedule Monday, bringing the total number of games lost in the three month lockout to 526.
Talks stall again as NHL rejects latest player offer
Dec 07, 2012 00:27 EST
Talks between owners and players to end the NHL lockout stalled again, quashing optimism that had built during the week that a shortened season could yet be saved.
Hint of optimism over NHL lockout
Dec 05, 2012 21:43 EST
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman offered the barest whiff of optimism in brief remarks on this week's talks between players and owners aimed at ending the lockout that has idled the league.
Fears for ice hockey over NHL lockout
Dec 05, 2012 07:42 EST
Teemu Selanne weaves his way out of his own end and lofts a perfectly-timed pass up the middle of the ice through a tangle of sticks to Justin Williams who goes in on a breakaway and scores.
Talks again fail to end NHL lockout
Nov 29, 2012 21:25 EST
Two days of mediated talks between the players union and the owners failed to end the 75-day-old National Hockey League lockout.
Wild goalie Harding has multiple sclerosis
Nov 29, 2012 15:11 EST
Minnesota Wild goaltender Josh Harding has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the NHL team said Thursday.
Red Wings star in Teletubby gear on drunk-driving charge
Nov 28, 2012 15:55 EST
Riley Sheahan, the Red Wings' top pick in the 2010 NHL draft, was reportedly wearing a purple Teletubbies costume when he was pulled over on a drunk driving charge in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Baseball free agency architect Miller dies
Nov 27, 2012 13:44 EST
Marvin Miller, the first head of the Major League Baseball Players Association who revolutionized sports with the creation of player free agency, died Tuesday at the age of 95.
Federal mediators join NHL labour dispute
Nov 27, 2012 06:58 EST
The National Hockey League's players union and owners have agreed to bring in mediators in a bid to end a lockout that has kept the season from starting.
Federal mediators join NHL labour dispute
Nov 26, 2012 22:32 EST
The National Hockey League's players union and owners have agreed to bring in mediators in a bid to end a lockout that has kept the season from starting.
Lockout-hit league scraps games though Dec 14
Nov 23, 2012 15:44 EST
The National Hockey League lost another showcase event to its ongoing lockout on Friday, announcing the cancellation of the 2013 All-Star game along with another fortnight of regular-season contests.
Owners mull latest union offer to end NHL lockout
Nov 21, 2012 23:02 EST
National Hockey League owners were reviewing the latest offer from the players' union, but both sides remain far apart as they attempt to end the two month long lockout.
NHL owners mull latest union offer to end lockout
Nov 21, 2012 18:09 EST
National Hockey League owners were reviewing the latest offer from the players' union on Wednesday in an attempt to end the two month long lockout.
Lakers honor Abdul-Jabbar with statue
Nov 17, 2012 02:58 EST
The Los Angeles Lakers paid tribute to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, unveiling a statue of the NBA's all-time leading scorer in his trademark sky-hook pose outside their Staples Center arena.
