WINNIPEG - Rookie Trey Vaval dazzled a sold-out crowd of Blue Bombers fans when he returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown and followed up with a 97-yard punt return for a major that helped Winnipeg snap a three-game losing streak with a 40-31 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday. It was the first and secon...

TORONTO - The noise the Toronto Blue Jays made before Thursday's trade deadline was silenced in their first game with three of their four newbies in the lineup. With four homers and a crafty three-hitter from veteran Michael Wacha (5-9), the Kansas City Royals (55-55) hammered Toronto 9-3 in Friday's opening game of th...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Captain Son Heung-min announced on Saturday that he will be leaving Tottenham Hotspur. At a media conference in Seoul, Son said his decision to leave the English Premier League club was 'the most difficult" of his career and said the club was supporting him as he looks to move on to anoth...

TORONTO - Bobby Witt Jr. belted a three-run homer and veteran starter Michael Wacha pitched a three-hitter to lift the Kansas City Royals to a 9-3 win in the opener of a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday. Witt's blow came off Toronto starter Kevin Gausman (7-8) and was the second of four homers ...

OTTAWA - Canada scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to dispatch the United States 42-10 Friday in its final home game before heading to Europe for the Rugby World Cup later this month. The second-ranked Canadian women extended their winning streak against the 10th-ranked U.S. to 11 straight games, but it too...

OTTAWA - Sprinter Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., won the senior women's 100-metres championship on Friday night, clocking 11.06 to top the eight-runner final at the Canadian track and field championships in Ottawa. The 26-year-old Leduc, who holds the Canadian records in the 100-metres (10.95) and 200 metres (22.36) -...

VANCOUVER - Organizers of the annual Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver say the event will be cancelled next year to make way for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Dominic Lai, the operations director with Dragon Boat BC, says the city declined to provide permits for 2026 edition of the festival. Lai says they ha...

TORONTO - Shane Bieber hopes to be a popular pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays down the stretch, but realizes that in his new home, he'll be the second most famous Bieber after Canadian pop icon Justin Bieber. The Blue Jays' Bieber once wore a jersey with "Not Justin" on the back during a players' weekend in ...

MONTREAL - Even at four years old, Victoria Mboko hated the taste of defeat. Pierre Lamarche remembers the little ball of energy waiting eagerly for her turn while her older sister, Gracia, exchanged rallies with him at his tennis academy in Burlington, Ont. "When we had to pick up the balls, Vicky would take a ra...

MIAMI (AP) - The New York Yankees released veteran right-hander Marcus Stroman on Friday, a day after making a flurry of moves at baseball's trade deadline. Stroman, who is in his 11th season in the majors, was cut ahead of the opener of a three-game series against the Miami Marlins and is owed about $5.7 million. The ...

CALGARY - Defenceman Landon DuPont headlines Canada's roster for the upcoming Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Czechia and Slovakia. The 16-year-old Dupont from Calgary was the first defenceman granted exceptional status by the Western Hockey League, which allowed him to enter the league at age 15. He was among 25 players named t...

TORONTO - The tournament director of the National Bank Open said he was hopeful "there will be a better solution" in the future after tennis viewers were unable to see Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime play in his home country this week. "Obviously what happened, we didn't want that to happen," Karl Ha...

PORTHCAWL, Wales (AP) - Miyu Yamashita started and finished with short birdie putts and was flawless in between as she posted a 7-under 65 on Friday to build a three-shot lead over Rio Takeda going into the weekend of the Women's British Open. The Japanese players, both among the top 15 in the women's world ranking, pl...

Prince Albert Raiders defenceman Daxon Rudolph is set to represent Canada on the world stage for the fourth time as the roster for this year's Hlinka-Gretzky Cup has been announced. Rudolph is one of 11 players from the WHL who made the cut as part of Canada's U18 squad.Starting August 11 and finishing on the 16, eight...

TORONTO - Unhappy at his contract demands, Toronto FC traded winger/wingback Tyrese Spicer to Orlando City SC on Friday in exchange for up to $550,000 (all figures in U.S. dollars) in general allocation money. The 24-year-old Trinidad and Tobago international, the first overall pick in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft, scored s...

CALGARY - Hockey Canada has invited 20 para hockey players to a national team orientation camp in Calgary as first step toward the 2026 Paralympic Games. The roster includes 16 players who helped Canada win gold at the 2024 world championship, as well as nine who claimed a silver medal at the 2022 Paralympic Games in B...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Graham James, a convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach. The suit alleged James sexually assaulted a Winnipeg man over two weeks in 1983, when the man was a student at an elementary school where James worked as a substitute teacher. Manitoba Cour...

MONTREAL - The top two teams in the CFL standings don't have a lot in common - except for the fact they just keep finding ways to win. The 6-1 Saskatchewan Roughriders will visit the 5-2 Montreal Alouettes on Saturday in a clash between two teams riding win streaks and finding success in very different ways. As such, i...

MIAMI (AP) - The New York Yankees released veteran right-hander Marcus Stroman on Friday, a day after making a flurry of moves at baseball's trade deadline. Stroman, who is in his 11th season in the majors, was cut ahead of the opener of a three-game series against the Miami Marlins. The Yankees acquired All-Star relie...

OTTAWA - Atletico Ottawa, which tops the Canadian Premier League standings, has added to its league-leading attack with the signing of Mexican attacker Antonio Alvarez on a season-long loan from Club America. The 21-year-old Alvarez has made 85 appearances in the Club America system, mostly in the under-20 and under-23...

CALGARY - Hockey Canada has invited 30 players to a national women's team orientation camp in Calgary in preparation for the 2026 Olympic Games. The national governing body of hockey is also summoning 42 NHL players and 17 para hockey players Aug. 26-28 for presentations and meetings, and team-building opportunities fo...

CALGARY - Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby are among 42 NHL players invited to Hockey Canada's men's Olympic orientation camp, set for late August in Calgary. The orientation camp is a three-day, off-ice event featuring presentations, team-building sessions and meetings aimed at preparing player...

The president of Prince Albert Minor Football (PAMF) says they're about halfway to being able to field a team in both the peewee and bantam divisions this upcoming fall season. However, time is running out for the organization as the deadline to submit rosters is looming. "The registration numbers are a little low...

MONTREAL - Japan's Naomi Osaka is moving on to the National Bank Open's fourth round after a 6-2, 6-4 win over 22nd-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia on Friday. Osaka, a former world No. 1, hit five aces and converted six of nine breakpoint opportunities, taking the match in 72 minutes on IGA Stadium's centre court. Sh...

TORONTO - Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain reached the round of 16 at the National Bank Open in Toronto with a straight-sets victory over Jakub Mensik of Czechia. It was an upset of sorts as the 20th-seeded Davidovich Fokina ousted 12th seed Mensik 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the fourth round. Montreal's Gabriel Diallo ...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Elks are aware, with one-third of the CFL season behind them, that they're in must-win territory to have a chance at the playoffs. The Elks (1-5) at home to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (5-2) on Saturday are coming off a comeback attempt that fell short in Regina. Edmonton running back Justin Rankin,...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The first 5K held in the memory of John and Matt Gaudreau helped raise more than $500,000, enough to break ground later this year on an accessible playground at the special education school where the hockey players' mother works. Thousands attended the Gaudreau Family 5K Walk /Run and Family Day in ...

TORONTO - The fledgling Northern Super League has scored a win on the international stage with AFC Toronto forward Esther Okoronkwo helping Nigeria to the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title. With Nigeria trailing host Morocco 2-0 in the final last Saturday, Okoronkwo scored from the penalty spot in the 60th m...