Report: Rogers in talks to buy Leafs, other teams

TORONTO (AP) — Rogers Communications declined to confirm reports that it was in talks to buy the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team and Toronto Raptors basketball team.

The Toronto Star, citing anonymous sources, reported that Rogers was negotiating to buy a 66 percent majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Maple Leaf Sports owns the teams.

The reported $1.3 billion sale would also include Toronto FC of Major League Soccer, a minor league ice hockey team, and the Leafs and Raptors TV stations.

Rogers Communications, Canada's largest wireless carrier and one of the country's biggest cable companies, said on …