Bette Seely watched on with great anticipation as her son Scott scrolled through his Blackberry to get a glimpse of the new Saint John Mill Rats logo late Tuesday evening.

The Saint John Expos strengthened their hold on first place in the New Brunswick Junior Baseball League with a 7-2 win over the Fredericton Royals Wednesday night at Memorial Field.

Jeff Vanderbeek, the New Jersey Devils' owner, says he thinks an arbitrator will make a prompt decision regarding wing Ilya Kovalchuk's 17-year, $102 million contract with the team, which the National Hockey League rejected last week.

Summer keeps rolling along and the runs keep coming as we hit the midpoint of the summer running season. The long weekend has a ton of runs on offer for runners around the province.

Sarah MacDonnell of Quispamsis, a 17-year-old forward at Brewster Academy, is one of 35 skaters invited to Hockey Canada's under 18 National Team selection camp, beginning Aug. 6 at the Mastercare Centre in Toronto.

Hayes Bishop, left, and Yannik Leger of the Moncton Black Tide try to take down Quinton Chowan of the Saint John Trojans at Millidgeville North field Wednesday night.

Mischa Moscovitch of Toronto won both the men's singles title and men's doubles title at the New Brunswick Open Tennis Championships at the Rothesay Tennis Club.

Teams from Saint John, Chatham and Fredericton will be vying for the midget AAA provincial baseball championship this weekend.

New Brunswick finished with a 2-0-2 record in Pool B of the Canadian under-16 boys select soccer tournament in Sherbroke, Que., finishing with a 2-2 draw against Nova Scotia Sunday.

Chris Bosh's former general manager says the player was "checked out" late last season and chose not to play some of the Raptors' final games.

There's a sign in the visitor's clubhouse at Miller Park warning players they can get in trouble trying to sneak a ride on Bernie Brewer's slide way out in left field.

Albert Haynesworth finally showed up for work - and quickly learned the Washington Redskins won't be cutting him any slack.

On the weekend he might have been inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame, an extraordinary achievement, Fred McGriff had the most ordinary of weekends.

Dustin Pedroia, much to his dismay, is human.

The Hampton Harriers captured the championship title in the Under-16 Boys AA division during the Hampton Soccer Club tournament, defeating Moncton 4-1 in the final.

The new name looks and sounds like the old one but the Saint John Mill Rats have finally been christened.

They go by Most Wanted.

The baseball hall of fame has changed the way that managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players will be considered for election.

Jesse Litsch was steamed at himself. After shutting out the Detroit Tigers for five innings, he could not survive the sixth.

John Bowman claimed he has played better games in his career without getting any quarterback sacks, and who are we to argue?