The Minnesota home crowd for Saturday's Big Ten men's hockey title game between the Gophers and Michigan, foreshadowed as a sellout in Patrick Reusse's column late last week, delivered as advertised.

Today the tension in pro sports surrounding race, hate speech and homophobia is palpable. Hockey is no exception. Too often we see headlines attached to the NHL because its players were caught using ...

You wouldn’t know the No. 7 Minot State hockey team is the defending ACHA national champion the way senior goaltender Nick Clarke handled it this weekend. The Illinois hockey team played the best it ...

Quite frankly, I couldn’t care less about hockey. I know it’s played on ice with a puck, a stick and a lot of fisticuffs, but beyond that, it’s just a bunch of big guys on skates. Small towns and ...

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hockey team lacked it last season. Coach Dan Fridgen doesn’t expect that to be the case this season. Eight veteran seniors will lead the Engineers into the 2001-02 ...

Thursday was a special day for some of us word nerds at CBC Sports. The good people at the Oxford Dictionary officially added several words and phrases to their online database of informal language.

The Proctor-Hermantown girls hockey team usually practiced at night this winter, making for some long days, especially for players who lived out in the country like Reilly Fawcett. Fawcett would have ...

The collective bargaining agreement has expired and the players are balking at the owners’ demand for a salary cap. A Major League Baseball strike is imminent. “I don’t want to see it,” said Whalers ...

With all the attention paid to hockey moms in the past couple of weeks, hockey dads are getting short shrift. That might not matter in Florida or Ohio or a lot of places considered swing states in the ...

The lawsuit doesn’t read nearly as well as the story, which laid bare the life of an NHL enforcer for all to see. The way John Branch wrote about Derek Boogaard in the New York Times should have been ...

The Canadian women's Olympic hockey team has displayed everything that's best about our national sport -- and the National Hockey League should be hanging its head in shame. Perhaps the league's ...

Most football players are tough. Every hockey player is. Sunday night’s game between the Penguins and the Blue Jackets included 19-year-old Columbus defenseman Zach Werenski taking a puck to the face.