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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild paid a hefty price last season to pry Jason Pominville away from the Buffalo Sabres in a trade. They paid an even bigger one to keep him. The Wild signed Pominville to a five-year, $28 million extension Thursday, ensuring that the versatile forward will not become a free agent after the season. The Star Tribune of Minneapolis first reported the terms of the deal, which came hours before the Wild opened the regular season against the Los Angeles…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Detroit Red Wings forward Patrick Eaves left the Winter Classic in the first period after being cross-checked up high by Torontos Joffrey Lupul. Eaves crumpled to the ice Wednesday and eventually made his way back to the locker room. Hes had concussion problems in his career and also broke his jaw in November 2011. This injury was announced as an upper-body injury, and Eaves is questionable to return against the Maple Leafs. Lupul was given a minor penalty on the…

Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie rink got back in the win column at the Olympic mens curling tournament with a 7-4 win over the host Russian squad on Wednesday. Coming off back-to-back losses to Switzerland and Sweden, Canada never trailed in the game against Russias Andrey Drozdov, whose team dropped to 0-4. After scoring a pair in the second end, Jacobs gave up a steal of one in the fourth before notching four in the fifth end. After Drozdov blanked the sixth and seventh ends, he…

INDIANAPOLIS -- It was just Peyton Mannings luck. On his first trip back to Lucas Oil Stadium, he and his teammates had an off night. His successor and his old team, they got it right. Andrew Luck threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score Sunday night, handing Denver a 39-33 loss -- its first of the season -- without even needing one of Lucks trademark fourth-quarter comebacks. "Its not real fun watching him," Luck said of Manning. "But he is something to watch." Heading…

DENVER -- The Colorado Mammoth didnt see this one coming, as the Vancouver Stealth raced to a 9-1 lead in the opening quarter, en route to a 19-9 victory Friday in National Lacrosse League action. Brett Bucktooth powered the Stealth (3-6) with six goals and six assists. Rhys Duch had four goals and seven assists, while Cliff Smith had three goals and five assists for Vancouver, which ended a six-game losing streak. Tyler Digby, Chris Wardle, Lewis Ratcliff, Nick Weiss, Kyle Sorensen…

Vijay Singh received a favourable ruling in his lawsuit against the PGA Tour when a judge allowed his complaint that he was treated differently from other players under the tours anti-doping policy. The New York State Supreme Court only partially dismissed the lawsuit, meaning the case could be headed for trial. The tour announced a year ago that Singh would be suspended for saying in a Sports Illustrated story that he took deer antler spray, which was believed to contain the banned…

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Clippers made a silent protest against owner Donald Sterling before Game 4 of their Western Conference playoff series against Golden State. The Warriors made a different kind of statement during the game. And just like that, a series pulled into a race-related scandal took another twist. Stephen Curry made a career playoff-high seven 3-pointers and scored 33 points, leading the Warriors past the Clippers 118-97 on Sunday to even their first-round…

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Saer Sene scored his first MLS goal on his first shot in the first minute of play, and the New England Revolution beat the Portland Timbers 1-0 on Saturday. Sene, a native of France playing in just his second match for New England, converted a header 28 seconds into the game for the eighth-fastest goal in MLS history. Chris Tierney set it up with a cross from the left side. It was the first goal of the season for the Revolution (1-2), who were shut out in each of…

A chronic back injury has sidelined Doug Weight for the rest of the season. The New York Islanders captain has been dealing with back spasms since November, which has kept him out of the Islanders lineup for all but 18 games this season. In that time, hes recorded two goals and nine points. He has been limited to just 107 games over the last three seasons with the Islanders. He previously underwent season-ending shoulder surgery in March of last year. Weight, 40, has 19 NHL seasons…

ALTENBERG, Germany -- Canadas Alex Gough won a pair of silver medals while Kimberley McRae added a bronze at a World Cup womens luge event Sunday. The Calgary native finished second, 0.674 seconds behind Germanys Natalie Geisenberger (one minute 46.332 seconds), who captured the World Cup championship for the second straight year. "I definitely didnt expect that ...," said Gough. "I think seeing your teammates do well does a lot for everyone to know it is not only the Germans that can…

LOS ANGELES -- Although his San Antonio Spurs have the NBAs best record and the longest active winning streak after four weeks of unbeaten basketball, coach Gregg Popovich can always find areas of imperfection. The Spurs defensive performance against the woeful Los Angeles Lakers made it easy this time. Tony Parker scored 25 points, Kawhi Leonard added 22 points and 10 rebounds, and the Spurs beat the Lakers 125-109 Wednesday night for their 11th consecutive victory. Danny Green scored…

SOELDEN, Austria -- Lara Guts start to the Olympic season couldnt have been more different from the one she had four years ago. Gut convincingly won the season-opening womens World Cup giant slalom Saturday for her fourth career victory -- but first in the discipline -- with a dominant performance that sent a message to her rivals less than four months ahead of the Sochi Olympics. It was a sharp contrast to September 2009, when the Swiss skier dislocated her hip in GS training and…

(Sports Network) - The Washington seem to be coming together at the right time to secure themselves a postseason berth. The Caps will try to move closer to that goal tonight by winning a third straight game when they visit the Lightning at Tampa Bay Times Forum. Dont miss a moment of the action live on TSN2 beginning at 7pm et/4pm pt. Also available on TSN Mobile TV. It hasnt been pretty, but Washington has recorded consecutive shootout victories to move two points ahead of Buffalo for…