OLYMPICS
Obama to host Olympians
US President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will welcome the US Olympic and Paralympic teams at the White House on Sept. 14, the White House said on Wednesday. The athletes? visit is ?to honor their participation and success in this year?s Olympic and Paralympic Games in London,? the White House said in a statement. The US earned more medals than any other country ? 104, including 46 golds ? at the London Summer Games. For the first time, the US women Olympians won more medals than the men.
ICE HOCKEY
NHL union talks resume
Talks between the NHL and its players? association resumed at the league offices, a day after NHL commissioner Gary Bettman issued a second proposal with the hopes of securing a new collective bargaining agreement. The players will likely either reject Bettman?s latest offering, or issue a counter-proposal sometime this week, yet neither happened on Wednesday as the two sides broke for the day in the late afternoon. Donald Fehr, the NHL Players?s Association executive director, said the counter-proposal could come yesterday. The current agreement expires on Sept. 15 and the league has said it would lock the players out if a new agreement was not in place by then.
ICE HOCKEY
Turris extended five years
The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Kyle Turris to a US$17.5 million, five-year contract extension. The 23-year-old Turris scored 12 goals and 17 assists last season, both career highs. The deal, which is worth an average of US$3.5 million per year, will keep Turris in Ottawa through the 2017-2018 season. Turris was acquired by the Senators in trade in December last year with the Coyotes that sent defenseman David Rundblad and a second-round draft pick to Phoenix. In 186 career games, Turris has 31 goals and 44 assists with 70 penalty minutes.
FOOTBALL
NFL to use replacements
The National Football League will open the regular season with replacement officials. League executive Ray Anderson has told the 32 teams that negotiations remain at a standstill between the NFL and the officials? union. The replacements will be on the field beginning on Wednesday night, when the Cowboys visit the Giants to open the season. The NFL Referees Association was locked out in early June and talks on a new collective bargaining agreement were unproductive. Replacements have been used throughout the preseason, with mixed results. In 2001, the NFL used replacements for the first week of the regular season before a contract was finalized.
BOXING
Tyson won?t ?beg? for visa
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson says he hoped to be granted a visa to visit New Zealand in November, but would not ?cower and beg? immigration officials to overlook his criminal convictions. Tyson has been booked to visit New Zealand and Australia in November on a motivational speaking tour dubbed ?The Day of Champions.? The New Zealand Immigration Service has yet to decide whether it will grant a visa to Tyson, who was convicted of rape in 1992 and served three years of a six-year sentence. Under New Zealand law, anyone convicted of an offense which carries a prison sentence of five years or longer will not get a visa, although discretion is allowed in some cases.
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