The StarPhoenix - Sports

• Contador loses 2010 Tour title
  Alberto Contador lost one of his three Tour de France titles after being banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday for failing a dope test during the 2010 race.
  
  
• What Canadiens need is losses
  When the Canadiens were busy tanking the early part of this miserable season, a francophone wit whose name we've forgotten suggested that it wasn't all that bad.
  
  
• Crosby returns to practice
  Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby is back on the ice.
  
  
• Serena Williams leads U.S. into Fed Cup playoffs
  Serena Williams recorded a singles victory on Sunday to move the U.S. into the Fed Cup World Group Playoffs.
  
  
• Kyle Stanley tastes sweet win after bitter collapse
  Kyle Stanley bounced back from a bitter defeat to win the Phoenix Open on Sunday, erasing an eightshot deficit to triumph a week after his last-round collapse at Torrey Pines.
  
  
• Kripps rocking new bobsleigh
  Justin Kripps' World Cup debut as a bobsleigh driver didn't go quite the way he was hoping.
  
  
• Classic Super Bowl battle waged with brilliance
  For all the shared bloodlines with Super Bowl XLII - the same directors, a similar script, the same leading men - this was always destined to be another play, if only because no two football games can possible be exactly alike. So many moving parts, so many new actors, so many games between there and here.
  
  
• Impact veterans trying to fit in
  Simon Gatti, Nevio Pizzolitto and Eduardo Sebrango have to prove themselves all over again, despite having more than 30 years of professional soccer experience between them.
  
  
• Rinaldo fined $5,000 for hits
  During the all-star weekend, NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan cited a conversation the Philadelphia Flyers had with Zac Rinaldo as an example of how players were adapting to stricter rules on dangerous hits.
  
  
• Slide exposes Senators' shortcomings
  What does an NHL team do when it's in the midst of a six-game losing streak, coming off an embarrassing home-ice loss to its biggest rival and clinging to a playoff spot like a piece of loose tape dangling from the end of a hockey stick?