Andrew Romine became the fifth player in baseball history to play all nine positions in one game, helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Saturday night.
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Andrew Romine became the fifth player in baseball history to play all nine positions in one game, helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Saturday night.
The New York Yankees wound up with an AL wild-card spot Saturday, beating Toronto 2-1 on Aaron Judge's 52nd home run shortly before Boston clinched the AL East crown.
The Boston Red Sox clinched the AL East by beating Houston 6-3 Saturday, setting up an immediate rematch with the Astros in the playoffs.
High on the to-do list for the Heat during this training camp that ended with a scrimmage Saturday was this: Getting Olynyk, the former Boston Celtics forward who signed a four-year deal with Miami this summer, as involved as possible with a core that largely returned intact from last season.
Canada's Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha held on to win ice dancing gold on Saturday at the fifth stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit in Zagreb, Croatia.
The artist who left an Ottawa woman blinded in one eye after a tattoo injection went wrong is defending his actions, saying he didn't make any mistakes during the procedure.
For the first time, the Canadian government is tracking the number of opioid overdoses on First Nation reserves, but the minister in charge says so far the data is incomplete and a struggle to obtain.
A person with the knowledge of the agreement tells The Associated Press that star point guard Russell Westbrook has signed a contract extension to remain in Oklahoma City.
Masahiro Tanaka struck out 15 over seven innings, his highest total since coming to the major leagues, and the playoff-bound New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-0 Friday to remain on the edge of contention in the AL East.
Health officials brace for a potentially miserable fall and winter.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to give large food manufacturers until 2020 to comply with new nutrition label requirements on packaged foods.
North Korea secured qualification on Friday for its first athletes at the PyeongChang Games which will take place in February.
A 24-year-old woman says she has learned the hard way about the risks of tattooing the eyeball.
Earlier findings raised hopes that caffeine could be used to relieve symptoms of Parkinson's disease but didn't pan out. Yet it's clear that non-coffee drinkers are at higher risk of developing the debilitating neurological condition. The question is why.
Brazil has challenged world champion Canada for the right to compete in the 2018 men's world curling championship.
The federal Liberal government spent more than $110,000 fighting a First Nations girl in court in an attempt to block payment for orthodontic treatment, according to documents released under access to information.
A news release issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada says the outbreak is a reminder that frozen raw breaded poultry products such as nuggets, strips and burgers should be handled the same as other raw poultry products.
NBA owners passed rules Thursday designed to prevent healthy players from sitting out games, and teams from losing games on purpose to improve their draft position.
Toronto Raptors governor Larry Tanenbaum was elected chairman of the NBA board of governors on Thursday. Tanenbaum, the longtime chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, becomes the first Canadian owner to serve as chairman of the board.
A Toronto medical team wants help saving C. difficile sufferers' lives, after they've run short on donors in their fecal transplant program.
Establishing a universal program for prescription medications would amount to about $4.2 billion in savings annually in Canada, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says in a new report.
The Toronto Blue Jays will play a two-game pre-season series in Montreal next year against the St. Louis Cardinals. It's the fifth straight year the Blue Jays have played exhibition contests at Olympic Stadium.
Alberta has a growing number of doctors at a cost that is increasing at a pace larger than inflation. The average gross salary of a physician in Alberta is the highest in the country.
Reigning AL Cy Young winner Rick Porcello struggled in his final playoff tuneup, and David Price relieved him to solidify his role on the post-season roster as the Boston Red Sox beat Toronto 10-7 on Wednesday night to lower their magic number to two.
Addison Russell hit a three-run homer and John Lackey pitched six strong innings as the Chicago Cubs clinched their second consecutive National League Central title with a 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night.
Nearly half of the estimated 56 million abortions performed worldwide every year are unsafe and putting women's lives at risk, according to a study released Wednesday.
Canada's drug price watchdog has ordered Alexion Pharmaceuticals to lower the price of Soliris, one of the world's most expensive drugs.
Major league owners on Wednesday approved the sale of the team by Jeffrey Loria to an investment group led by former NY Yankee Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman, two people familiar with the vote said.
Rick Pitino's attorney has told the Courier-Journal that Louisville has put the basketball coach on administrative leave, but has "effectively fired" Pitino amid a federal bribery investigation.
A Calgary medical marijuana user is calling for better education around travelling with medication after hers was confiscated by Greyhound.
The provincial health minister wants to make information public about how much money healthcare providers receive from pharmaceutical companies, as they do in the United States and Europe.
Étienne Aubé's golf swing won him a silver medal at the Invictus Games, an accomplishment the Canadian military veteran credits to his state-of-the-art prosthetic leg.
Chris Sale matched a career worst by giving up four home runs in a playoff tuneup, including a pair to Josh Donaldson, and the Boston Red Sox lost 9-4 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.
Ireland plans to hold a referendum next May or June on whether it should loosen some of the strictest abortion laws in the world, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday.
"Daniel was treated like a human being ... I never once got the impression from anybody on the transplant team that he was a body on a bed with organs to be harvested."
Dwyane Wade is reportedly close to joining LeBron James in Cleveland, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. Wade and James reached four consecutive NBA Finals with Miami, winning two titles.
Without foreign medical graduates, the quality of care and research may suffer, some U.S. doctors argue.
A family in Lethbridge is fighting to keep their elderly mother on a ventilator but say time is running out before doctors remove her from life support.
A professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax predicts marijuana will be a growing trend in the food industry, and says policy needs to be implemented to minimize risk.
From Derek Jeter to Aaron Judge, Canada's Rob Thomson has had front-row seat of the best the New York Yankees have had to offer the past 28 years.
Josh Donaldson homered and drove in three runs, powering the Toronto Blue Jays past the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox 6-4 on Monday night.
LeBron James is not backing down on his comments about President Donald Trump, and countless other players and coaches in the NBA made it clear at media days around the league Monday that they are equally fed up with what could perhaps be described as a pattern of actions from the White House that they would call divisive or worse.
While the Toronto Raptors headed into the off-season amid talk of a "culture reset," their new look is more of a trim than a completely new 'do.
Boys who started playing football before age 12 were at higher risk for behavioural and mood problems later in life compared to peers who took up the sport later, U.S. researchers find.