Canada rolls on
Denmark latest foe swept aside by Canadians at hockey worlds.
Canada shut out Denmark, 5-0, for a fifth consecutive victory at the ice hockey world championship Monday in Kosice, Slovakia.
Sam Reinhart scored two goals and the rest went to Jonathan Marchessault, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Jared McCann. Mark Stone finished the Group A game in Kosice with two assists.
Carter Hart stopped 21 shots and Mackenzie Blackwood made three saves to combine for the shutout.
Canada climbed to second in Group A with 15 points, one behind leading Finland and one ahead of the Unites States.
After starting with a loss to Finland, the Canadians close the preliminary round Tuesday against the United States. The quarterfinals are scheduled for Thursday.
In other action, Dennis Rassmusen scored the winner into an empty net with 34 seconds remaining for Sweden to beat Latvia, 5-4. Latvia needed a win in regulation to keep alive hopes for a quarterfinal spot in Group B.
Pro football
Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott was handcuffed by police, but not arrested, after a scuffle early Saturday involving event staff at a Las Vegas music festival. Elliott, 23, was detained briefly about 3 a.m. Saturday near a gate to the overnight Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after police officers saw him “push a security officer to the ground.” “The security guard who was the victim of the misdemeanor battery refused to press charges,” a statement said, and Elliott was released.
Auto racing
Retired two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr., 57, was arrested early Monday in central Indiana and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Blood test results are pending.
• Three-time Formula One champion Niki Lauda, who won two of his titles after a horrific crash that left him with serious burns and went on to become a prominent figure in the aviation industry, died Monday in Vienna. He was
70. Lauda twice had kidney transplants and a lung transplant.
College football
The NFL Network and Conference USA agreed to a four-year partnership that will put 10 Saturday afternoon games on the network each season. Conference USA also has agreements with ESPN, online sports network Stadium and Facebook. The agreement is the first between the NFL Network and a college conference.
Volleyball
Iowa put women’s coach Bond Shymansky on paid administrative leave after reporting what its athletic director called serious rules violations to the NCAA. Athletic director Gary Barta declined to elaborate on the allegations.
Horse racing
Santa Anita had its second horse death in four days when a gelding pulled up with what later was determined as a pelvis injury in a race Sunday and was euthanized a day later. Twentyfive horses now have died at the Southern California track since Dec. 26.
Elsewhere
Jim Burch, the first black man to officiate a basketball game in the ACC, died Sunday at his home in Apex, N.C. He was 91.