NASSAU, Bahamas — Tiger Woods couldn’t have scored more points with his two children than when he took them to Miami this summer to watch Barcelona in a friendly, and then arranged for them to meet Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in the locker room. He described it as a surreal moment to watch his…

Momentum is everything in bobsled, and Team Canada has it going for them from top to bottom. They have already claimed eight of the young season’s 27 World Cup medals, including three gold, from tour stops in Lake Placid, Park City and Whistler. Pilot Kaillie Humphries hasn’t missed the podium and tops the women’s points…

Former Toronto Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos. Photograph by: Mark Blinch Your midday sports snack. Toast points • The Braves lured an old Alex Anthopoulos lieutenant away from the Blue Jays last night, when Anthopoulos, Atlanta’s new general manager and executive vice-president, hired Jays assistant GM Andrew Tinnish as his vice-president of amateur and international…

Twice sent back to junior and unable to earn a spot with the last-place team in the NHL, there might have been a temptation earlier this season to question whether Dylan Strome should have been a No. 3 overall pick. There wasn’t necessarily anything wrong with his development. But compared to others, it sure looked…

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — In her third year at St. Cloud State University, Taylor Crosby has become absorbed in ethics and philosophy courses. “I like those because they’re open-ended,” said Crosby, a goalie on the Huskies’ women’s hockey team. “There’s like a billion answers.” Through much of her adolescence, hockey seemed to be the only…