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Sochi's anti-doping director says 2,500 drug tests will be conducted at next year's Winter Olympics, about 350 more than at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

Sweden became the first home team to win the world hockey championships in 27 years, beating Switzerland 5-1 on Sunday.

Reto Berra made 29 saves, and Nino Niederreiter, Julian Walker and Reto Suri scored to help Switzerland beat the United States 3-0 on Saturday in the world hockey semifinals.

Slovakia defeated the United States 4-1 at the ice hockey world championship on Tuesday.

The United States beat France 4-2 Saturday for its fourth win at the ice hockey world championships.

Vancouver Canucks forwards Daniel and Henrik Sedin and defenseman Alex Edler will play for Sweden at the world hockey championships.

We're not privy to the NHL's marketing slogan for the 2013-14 season, but it might be something like "Go Big or Go Home, but Definitely Go Outdoors." Of course, if you read much of the negative commentary surrounding the NHL's decision to multiply...

World champion Johnny Spillane, who won three silver medals in Nordic combined ski races at the Vancouver Olympics, is hanging up his skis nine months before the Sochi Games.

The wife of former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong has been killed in a car accident in Ireland.

Former NHL GM and current part-time scout Brian Burke talks with Val Ackerman about the rapid growth and quality of women's hockey and his no-tolerance stance on bigotry in sports.

Keep an eye on the Los Angeles Kings if and when the Calgary Flames and Jarome Iginla decide to begin divorce proceedings. While it's been widely (and accurately) reported that Boston and Pittsburgh have interest in the Flames captain should he be...

NEW YORK -- Watching his Tampa Bay Lightning players go through their morning skate drills Thursday at Madison Square Garden, general manager Steve Yzerman was puzzled at first when this ESPN.com hockey writer wished him a happy third anniversary. ...

Downhill skier Stacey Cook suffered a nasty fall during a training run at the 2010 Olympics and has been looking ahead to Sochi ever since, hoping for a fair shot at the medal stand.

Two-time Olympic medal-winning short-track speedskater Katherine Reutter announced her retirement on Tuesday, citing the toll training was taking on her oft-injured body.

Just when we thought we'd seen it all in NHL shootout action, Alex Burrows proved us wrong. Plenty of players have used the ol' spinorama in a shootout. But none of them ever came up with that whole "ignore the puck entirely when you do it" angle tha...

Five years ago, bobsled driver Steven Holcomb was deeply depressed. His U.S. four-man bobsled team was peaking and had a strong chance to win the first American gold medal in the event since 1948 at the 2010 Olympics. But despite devoting a decade of...