National Sports

ARLINGTON, Texas — One Will Smith outdid another Will Smith to keep the season alive for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A common name, a special result for the Dodgers catcher.

SAN DIEGO — The blowback from a sign-stealing scandal three years ago and a losing record during the pandemic-shortened regular season don't mean a thing to Dusty Baker and the Houston Astros.

TORONTO — He's still a win away from ending Canada's lengthy Triple Crown drought, but Mighty Heart has his championship pose down pat.

Braeden Moskowy has a new roommate in skip Matt Dunstone thanks to provincial rules that have limited the Saskatchewan curling team's options this season. Dunstone, who bought a home with his girlfriend last month in Kamloops, B.C.

NEW YORK — The Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees drew the five-most watched games of the Division Series, boosted by prime-time start times. Tampa Bay’s 2-1 win in Game 5 on Oct.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Milos Raonic have advanced to the semifinals of the St. Petersburg Open. The second-seeded Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., downed No.

COLOGNE, Germany — Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime cruised into the semifinals of the Cologne Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Moldova's Radu Albot on Friday.

Canadian bantamweight Sarah (Cheesecake) Moras will face Brazil's Vanessa Melo next month on a televised UFC card in Las Vegas. The main event of the Nov. 7 show at the UFC's Apex production facility features Thiago Santos, ranked No.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed 41-year-old forward Joe Thornton to a one-year contract worth US$700,000.

Toronto FC president Bill Manning says the decision to admit some fans in to see the MLS team's regular-season finale Nov. 1 in East Hartford is essentially a thank-you to the community. "They've been so receptive.