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The NHL has moved one step closer to calling off another season because of a labour dispute. Regular-season games through Jan.

U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst has been elected to a second term. Probst, also the chairman at Electronic Arts, took over for Peter Ueberroth in 2008 during a period of turmoil for the USOC.

Good riddance, 2012. The year that almost was left us with a string of hideous story lines.

CHICAGO - A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that the Chicago Cubs have agreed to a four-year, $52 million contract with right-hander Edwin Jackson.

TORONTO - Spurned welterweight contender Johny (Bigg Rigg) Hendricks says UFC champion Georges St-Pierre is avoiding him because of his knockout power.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Most everywhere Lou Billittier turns these days, the Buffalo restaurateur is reminded of the NHL lockout, and its impact on his blue-collar, sports-mad town where Dominik Hasek became a star and the French Connection is still revered.

MIAMI - Former All-Star third baseman Placido Polanco agreed to a $2.75 million, one-year contract Thursday with the Miami Marlins, plugging the final hole in the team's projected lineup following a payroll purge.

A look at the countries competing at the world junior hockey championship in Ufa, Russia: GROUP A Sweden The Swedes won gold in 2012.

It can be a cruel world on and off the playing field. So as we unwrap the glittering year that lies ahead, we may find a few lumps of coal left over from 2012 amid the tinsel.

Six Island girls have earned a trip to Las Vegas. The first B.C.