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Canadians were well behind the leaders as Tor Arne Hetland of Norway won the men's sprint on Monday in the third event of the World Cup's annual Tour de Ski series. Arianna Follis of Italy won the women's race.

The San Jose Sharks announced Monday that they have signed 43-year-old forward Claude Lemieux.

Washington Capitals left-winger Alex Ovechkin was named the NHL's first star of the week on Monday.

Minor hockey in Ontario isn't broken, but an online survey is asking players, parents and coaches across the province for their ideas on how to improve it.

Two ski hills in Nova Scotia are set to receive major upgrades in time for the 2011 Canada Winter Games.

Maria Riesch of Germany won the women's World Cup slalom event in Semmering, Austria, on Monday, overtaking American Lindsey Vonn for the overall slalom lead in the World Cup standings.

Colorado Avalanche centre Paul Stastny will have surgery Tuesday to repair his fractured forearm.

Sweden routed Latvia 10-0 on Monday afternoon, lifting them to 3-0-0 in the world junior hockey tournament in Ottawa.

The Cleveland Browns' housecleaning continued Monday as the NFL club fired head coach Romeo Crennel.

The latest potential saviour for the NHL's Vancouver Canucks flew into town on Monday afternoon and was hustled past a pile of local media at the airport to be whisked away by van.

Christine Nesbitt won the 1,000-metre Canadian single distance long-track speedskating championships on Monday at the Richmond Olympic Oval, the sport's venue for the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Team Canada improved to 3-0 at the world junior championships on Monday night with a 5-1 victory over a plucky German side in Ottawa.

Maxim Lapierre turned to an old maxim on Monday night and it worked like a charm.

Montreal Canadiens legend Jean Beliveau was rushed to hospital Monday after falling ill at a friend's funeral.

Russian investigators said Monday that Alexei Cherepanov, the New York Rangers prospect who died this fall, had been taking performance-enhancing drugs for months.

The family of a missing cruise ship passenger said Monday that they suspect the woman "chose an unfortunate ending to her life" and jumped from a cruise ship balcony into the waters off Mexico's coast on Christmas night.

Some water samples near a massive spill of coal ash in eastern Tennessee are showing high levels of arsenic, and state and federal officials on Monday cautioned residents who use private wells or springs to stop drinking the water.

If you hit the malls this weekend you saw that desperate retailers were slashing prices in an effort to move inventory and push shoppers to open their wallets ... but will it be enough to turn business around?