MIAMI — Derek Jeter says when his ownership group took over the Miami Marlins in October, he thought Giancarlo Stanton would be with the team in 2018. The Marlins traded Stanton because the National League MVP didn’t want to be part of the franchise’s rebuilding, Jeter said Monday. Jeter said the deal with his former…

Players no longer will be penalized two shots for an incorrect scorecard if they were not aware of a rules violation when they signed their card. The USGA and R&A also will no longer respond to most TV viewers’ calls during the tournament. The changes are part of a local rule effective Jan. 1. Rescinding…

Deonte Thompson makes a catch in overtime. Photograph by: Jeffrey T. Barnes Your midday sports snack. Toast points • Toronto FC celebrated its resounding win in the MLS Cup championship game with a downtown parade earlier today. TFC beat Seattle Sounders FC 2-0 at home on Saturday to win the franchise’s first playoff title and…

OTTAWA — He’s a two-time world champion and a three-time Brier winner and now Kevin Koe can add Olympian to his lengthy list of accomplishments. Koe and his Calgary teammates Mark Kennedy, Brent Laing and Ben Hebert beat Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen 7-6 in the final of the Canadian Olympic curling trials Sunday night a the…

The hockey bar is finally getting a hockey team. When Tim Pipes opened The Angry Beaver seven years ago — the first and only Canadian-themed hockey bar in Seattle — it was because the Toronto-born Maple Leafs fan wanted a place where he and others could grab a beer and watch NHL games. He never thought the…

MOSCOW — Russian athletes are overwhelmingly in favour of competing at the upcoming Pyeongchang Games despite a ban on the national team, the country’s Olympic committee said Monday. Sofia Velikaya said the Russian Olympic Committee’s athletes’ commission, which she chairs, has heard from “all the athletes in all sports” on the Olympic program, with a…