GOLD COAST, Australia — Taylor Ruck has been surprising people for months. On Thursday she surprised herself. The 17-year-old phenom from Kelowna, B.C., won the 200-metre freestyle final in a Commonwealth Games and Canadian record time of one minute 54.81 seconds, erasing the mark of 1:55.57 set four years ago by defending champion Emma McKeon…

Frequently, when someone seems to have too much time on their hands, the advice that comes their way is that they should take up a hobby. Does that mean any hobby is good for you? When it comes to video games, the jury is still out. It is true that video games are a multi-billion…

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The comeback plans for Novak Djokovic stalled on Friday when a recurrence of pain in his right elbow forced him to withdraw from an exhibition tournament in the United Arab Emirates. Djokovic hasn’t played competitively since he retired in the Wimbledon quarterfinals because of the elbow injury. He was…

Perhaps we should have known that 2017 would be a weird sports year when, even before it started, Kevin Durant signed with the Golden State Warriors. A free-agent superstar taking a huge discount to sign with a rival? Who does that? From there, the hits kept coming. An absurd Super Bowl, Sergio Garcia winning a…

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — The Calgary Flames were the only National Hockey League team that did not play on Dec. 23, prior to their Christmas break. And, to make things even more interesting, they resumed game action a day later than most teams — on Thursday — which gave the team plenty of time to…

In this Jan. 5, 2017 file photo, U.S. forward Troy Terry scores on Carter Hart in the shootout of the world junior final. Photograph by: Minas Panagiotakis BUFFALO — Twelve months later, Dominique Ducharme still hasn’t been able to rewatch the gold medal game. Well, that’s not entirely true. “I watched part of it,” said…