ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis Blues goalie Jake Allen and forward David Backes will miss at least the last three regular-season games with lower body injuries. The team said Monday that both players will be re-evaluated before the playoffs. The 31-year-old Backes has dressed in all 79 games. He is second on the team…
After two gut wrenching results in which Saint Louis FC gave up a goal in added time to lose to Real Monarchs and two goals in the closing minutes of the first half in a losing effort against LA Galaxy II, the other shoe finally dropped. Â STLFC was able to score its own late goals…
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Francisco Liriano tied a Pirates opening day record by striking out 10 and singled home the first run of the 2016 Major League Baseball season for good measure, sending Pittsburgh past the St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 on Sunday. It was 39 degrees when Liriano threw the first pitch of the year. He…
DENVER (AP) – David Backes started the scoring in a three-goal first period, Anders Nilsson made 19 saves in relief of an apparently injured Jake Allen, and the St. Louis Blues beat Colorado 5-1 on Sunday night as the Avalanche moved to the brink of postseason elimination. Magnus Paajarvi, Colton Parayko and Alex Pietrangelo also…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Krejci had two goals and two assists and the Boston Bruins snapped out of a scoring funk to beat the St. Louis Blues 6-5 Friday night and hang onto third place in the Atlantic Division. Loui Eriksson got his 500th career point with a goal and an assist and Patrice…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Mike Leake went four shutout innings, Stephen Piscotty homered twice and the St. Louis Cardinals beat a New York Yankees’ split squad 9-1 on Thursday. Leake gave up two hits and struck out five. He got inning-ending double plays from Alex Rodriguez and Chase Headley. Leake, signed to an $80 million,…
Coming off a loss decided by an added time goal in the first of a three-game road trip to start its season, Saint Louis FC was tasked with regrouping for a Wednesday night tilt with LA Galaxy II, which won its opening game 2-0 over Arizona United SC. After 43 minutes of consistent pressure from…
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals employed the same formula they used to win 100 games last season – good starting pitching, enough timely hitting and Trevor Rosenthal closing out the game – to defeat the Miami Marlins 3-0 on Wednesday in both teams’ final spring game. Michael Wacha had by far his…
( KTRS ) Saint Louis University has hired Travis Ford as its new men’s coach. The school has set a news conference for Thursday to introduce Ford, who replaces Jim Crews. Ford was fired by Oklahoma State this month after eight seasons. He is 345-257 in 19 seasons overall with earlier stops at Massachusetts, Eastern…
NEW YORK (AP) – The NFL has demanded The New York Times retract a front-page story that called the league’s concussion research flawed and likened the NFL’s handling of head trauma to the tobacco industry’s response to the dangers of cigarettes. In a letter from its law firm to the general counsels of the newspaper…