When a hockey coach in Newfoundland, Canada, heard a Syrian refugee boy named Yamen Bai wanted to play hockey, he put out a call for donations. A year later, Yamen is keeping up with his teammates and scoring goals.
Last year the entire Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl, Russia died in a plane crash. So this season, the team is rebuilding and getting back on its skates.
For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for a Russian provincial city a short train ride northeast of Moscow. The city has recruited an American coach to rebuild the hockey team that perished in a tragic plane crash.
Derek Boogaard was a hockey enforcer who died from a lethal mix of booze and oxycodone this past summer.
Russian hockey team loses 37 players and coaches in plane crash -- roster included former NHL all-stars and Olympic champions.
Takeaway sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin explains why the playoffs are so fair. Often, he says, the top-seeded teams don't make it to the finals so small town teams can actually win the trophy. It depends on the goalie, he says.
Rupert Murdoch's Sky Sports was dragged into the center of a debate over sexism in soccer and sports.
The U.S. Figure Skating organization has a name for the increased interest in the sport they get every four years: They call it 'The Olympic Buzz,' and it's linked to the media exposure skating gets during the Winter Olympics.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the biggest upsets in the history of sport. In what came to be known as the 'Miracle on Ice,' the scrappy and determined amateurs of the U.S. men's ice hockey team upset the best team in the world ? the USSR.