Roman Faith scored late in the third period as Slovakia beat Switzerland 1-0 in the opening game of the world junior hockey championship on Friday.
Day: December 25, 2020
The Duke women’s basketball team has ended its season amid the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The men’s team planned to keep playing.
Basketball Hall of Famer K.C. Jones, who won eight NBA championships as a Celtics player in the 1960s and two more as the coach of the Boston teams that took the title in 1984 and ’86, has died. He was 88.
Duncan Robinson made seven 3-pointers — tying the most on Christmas ever — and scored 23 points, and the Miami Heat beat the New Orleans Pelicans 111-98 to start the NBA’s holiday quintupleheader Friday.
A large explosion at a steel factory in Hamilton was reported by Hamilton police Friday morning. Large clouds of brown smoke were seen coming from Hamilton’s waterfront industrial zone.