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It was a brilliant first catch, but Jay Fujimura had no doubt Chase Claypool would come down with the football.

A pair of fighters from Windsor, Ont., will carry Canadian colours on Saturday's UFC card in Las Vegas. Strawweight Randa (Quiet Storm) Markos and featherweight T.J. (The Truth) Laramie are at different stages of their mixed martial arts careers.

The Fed Cup is changing its name to honour tennis great Billie Jean King, the woman whose lifelong battle for equality and social justice laid the foundation for generations that followed.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have added Manny Malhotra to the bench, hiring the former NHL centre as an assistant coach. Malhotra, 40, spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks.

Canada's Olympic team doctor believes the Tokyo Games can happen in 2021 without a COVID-19 vaccine, but feels the event will require major modifications. While he calls the global effort to produce a vaccine unprecedented, Dr.

Veteran prop Brad Singleton is the latest Toronto Wolfpack player to move on.

VANCOUVER — While the Montreal Impact would have loved a chance to defend their Canadian Championship, coach Thierry Henry says what the club really wanted on Wednesday was points in the Major League Soccer standings.

Wednesday's Games MLB American League Kansas City 4 Detroit 0 N.Y. Yankees 13 Toronto 2 Texas 1 Houston 0 Minnesota 5 Chicago White Sox 1 National League St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 2 (1st game) L.A.

NEW YORK — Kyle Higashioka was as surprised as anyone. “It's just kind of crazy how baseball works sometimes," the career .169 hitter said.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Kevyn Adams didn’t have to do too much homework on centre Eric Staal in completing his first trade as Buffalo Sabres general manager.