National Sports

HALIFAX — Starting Wednesday, players in the Maritime Junior Hockey League will be donning specially designed jerseys to celebrate Indigenous groups in the country as a part of the organization’s Week of Reconciliation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Milton Andrew Munson's obituary recalled his life as an Air Force veteran, a pharmacist, husband and father, and as a Nebraska football fan.

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros ($84,000) Wednesday in a sex-tape case that rocked French soccer and put the talented striker's internation

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — A global data analytics company predicts Norway will top the Winter Olympics medal table again and Canada will finish fifth with 23 medals.

Tuesday's Games NHL Tampa Bay 4 Philadelphia 0 Dallas 4 Edmonton 1 Calgary 5 Chicago 2 --- AHL WB/Scranton 3 Charlotte 2 (OT) --- NBA Miami 100 Detroit 92 New York 106 L.A. Lakers 100 Portland 119 Denver 100 Dallas 112 L.A.

CALGARY — On a night Calgary didn't have its 'A' game, Milan Lucic and the club's veteran fourth line delivered a pair of timely goals.

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — Cole Carrier scored three goals in less than four minutes and the Regina Pats routed the Medicine Hat Tigers 6-2 on Tuesday. Carrier's first goal came on a power play 15:05 into the third.

SASKATOON — The latest edition in the so-called Battle of the Brads rivalry showed why the Olympic champion skips are essentially a pick 'em every time they play.

DALLAS (AP) — Red-hot Roope Hintz scored the first of two Dallas power-play goals in the first period, and the Stars handed the Edmonton Oilers just their fifth loss of the season, 4-1 Tuesday night.

OTTAWA — The Beijing Olympics are still two months away, but the rivalry between the Canadian and American women’s hockey teams is already running high.