Residents of Kimberley, B.C., were ecstatic last month when they heard that their fledgling junior hockey team was going to receive a whopping $7.5-million donation from a Calgary benefactor. “What an amazing gesture,” one person crowed on Facebook. “So generous … this will be great for the whole community,” wrote another. But weeks later, the…

Taylor Hall battles against Edmonton’s Milan Lucic at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Photograph by: Codie McLachlan As Ray Shero sat across from Taylor Hall at dinner at the end of last season, the New Jersey Devils general manager saw a broken player with a hangdog expression on his face who…

Your midday sports snack. Toast points • Jozy Altidore’s claim of guiltlessness in a brawl at halftime of an MLS playoff game went unheeded by a disciplinary panel today. The panel dismissed Altidore’s appeal of the red card he received for violent conduct on Nov. 5, when the Toronto FC striker and New York Red…

Over the whole of the investigations into Russia’s doping scheme that are now approaching three years in length, there have been certain consistent responses from the major players. The World Anti-Doping Agency has responded to the various revelations — a government-controlled program in which top Russian anti-doping officials were in fact very much pro-doping —…

MANILA, Philippines — President Donald Trump found out about the great UCLA-China basketball episode of 2017 when members of his staff saw it on CNN just before Trump’s dinner with the president of China in Beijing last week. They learned that three American college basketball players — representing a storied sports program visiting China for…