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Twitter to live-stream NHL, MLB games – but not in Canada

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has announced plans to live stream weekly games from Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Hockey League (NHL), but existing licensing agreements will prevent most of that content from being seen here.The company said Monday that live streams of out-of-market MLB and NHL games will be available free to logged-in and logged-out Twitter users in the United States once per week.  While the NHL portion of the deal will exclude Canada, baseball fans can catch out-of-market games for all MLB teams except the Rogers-owned Toronto Blue Jays.Twitter will also stream a new nightly sports show called The...