BRUSSELS — Marieke Vervoort, the face of last year’s Paralympics and a marvel to millions through her stoic defiance of unremitting pain, accepts that her race is all but run. Since those sunlit days in Rio, where she won a silver medal despite agonies so acute that she has signed euthanasia papers in her native…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Canada’s luge relay team is set to gain a bronze medal from the Sochi Olympics. The upgrade is a result of Russian athletes being stripped of medals over doping allegations. It will be Canada’s first Olympic luge medal. Calgary sliders Sam Edney, Alex Gough and Justin Snith and Tristan Walker of Cochrane,…

SAN DIEGO — Dick Enberg, a Hall of Fame broadcaster known as much for his excited calls of “Oh my!” as the big events he covered during a 60-year career, died Thursday. He was 82. Enberg’s daughter, Nicole Enberg Vaz, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. She said the family became concerned when her…

Christopher Spring says he feels comfortable on the track at the Whistler Sliding Centre, where he won his first World Cup medal, his first World Cup gold, and set a record. And then he pauses. “Let me rephrase that. I feel comfortable coming here, but I never feel comfortable driving here,” the veteran bobsled pilot…

In this December 2000 file photo, Vince Carter sits with Santa Claus at a charity Christmas event at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Photograph by: Michael Peake Your midday sports snack. Toast points • There are 50 days left until the Winter Olympics begin in Pyeongchang. The newly built high-speed rail line from Seoul…

LiAngelo Ball, left, and his brother, LaMelo, talk before a Los Angeles Lakers-Cleveland Cavaliers game in Cleveland on Dec. 14. Photograph by: Tony Dejak PRIENAI, Lithuania — It was only fitting, perhaps, that an intercontinental escapade exhibiting the awesome power of the present day sports-celebrity-industrial complex began with a late-night direct message on Twitter. At…