VANCOUVER - Vernon Adams Jr. threw for 116 yards and a touchdown and his B.C. Lions closed their pre-season with a decisive 26-9 win over the Edmonton Elks on Friday. Adams - B.C.'s starting quarterback - connected on 7 of 9 attempts before being swapped out for Jake Dolegala, who put up 118 passing yards with one TD a...

WINNIPEG - Campbell Fair's five field goals lifted the Calgary Stampeders to a 31-10 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in CFL pre-season action Friday. Running backs Peyton Logan and LeVante Bellamy recorded touchdowns for Calgary in a match that was delayed a half hour because of severe weather in the area. Winni...

TORONTO - Davis Schneider hit a two-run homer in the 14th inning to give the Toronto Blue Jays a 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday at Rogers Centre. With Cavan Biggio aboard as the automatic runner, right-hander Kyle Nicolas got Ernie Clement and Kevin Kiermaier on groundouts. That set the stage for Sch...

DALLAS - The Edmonton Oilers are one victory from the Stanley Cup final. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored two power-play goals as Edmonton smothered the Dallas Stars 3-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the NHL's Western Conference final on Friday. Philip Broberg had the other goal for Edmonton. Stuart Skinner made 19 saves. Evan Bouch...

SAGINAW - Ethan Hay had two goals and two assists in leading the host Saginaw Spirit to a 7-1 semifinal win over the Moose Jaw Warriors on Friday to punch their ticket into Sunday's Memorial Cup final. Saginaw will next meet the Ontario Hockey League champion London Knights, who advanced to the final after going 3-0 in...

GUELPH, Ont. - The Toronto Argonauts may have found their next top receiver. Kevin Mital, the fifth overall pick in this year's CFL draft, caught five passes for 104 yards and a touchdown as the Argonauts beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 25-14 in the teams' final pre-season game on Friday at Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ont. ...

OTTAWA - Lewis Ward helped the Ottawa Redblacks complete a perfect 2-0 pre-season Friday with four field goals in a 19-13 win over the Montreal Alouettes. Ward also converted the only touchdown of the game to account for 13 Ottawa points, including a 17-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter. Dru Brown started at ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Lexi Thompson stood off to the side of the ninth green after hitting what could be her final stroke - a three-inch bogey putt - in the U.S. Women's Open. It was just like any other round until she headed toward the scoring room. "We'll miss you, Lexi," one fan yelled above the applause. ...

HAMILTON - It's been six long months since David Hearn played in a PGA Tour event. It's been even longer since the 44-year-old Canadian made a cut. But he will tee it up in the third round of the RBC Canadian Open on Saturday. Hearn was the low Canadian on Thursday after a 3-under 67 round but then he laboured to a 3-o...

MARKHAM, Ont. - Jacqueline Simoneau, who calls the Montreal suburb of Chambly home, won the women's solo technical gold medal at the World Aquatics artistic swimming World Cup on Friday. The 27-year-old Simoneau finished with 246.7950 points at the Pan Am Pool, finishing ahead of China's Huiyan Xu (244.2050) and Viktor...

MONTREAL - Bev Priestman's message to her squad during the international window is clear: just be yourself. The Canadian women's national soccer team coach doesn't want her players to put additional pressure on themselves as they fight for roster spots in two upcoming pre-Olympic friendlies against Mexico. The No. 9-ra...

VANCOUVER - It hasn't been an easy month for the Vancouver Whitecaps. Between Major League Soccer play and a bid to defend their Canadian Championship title, the 'Caps are playing nine games in six cities in 29 days. Now Vanni Sartini is asking his players to make one final push before next week's international break. ...

TORONTO - Toronto Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday due to a right elbow sprain and was scheduled for an in-person evaluation with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Keith Meister next week. The 26-year-old right-hander, who missed the first five weeks of the season due to right shoulder in...

SAGINAW - Easton Cowan's big-game reputation has only grown this season, but he's had some added motivation pushing him to another level. The star right-winger of the London Knights was drafted in the first round (28th overall) in last year's NHL draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, going higher than he was projected to g...

BANGKOK - Canadian boxer Mckenzie Wright won a 5-0 decision over Argentina's Aldana Florencia Lopez on Friday to advance to the round of eight in the women's 50-kilogram division at a last-ditch Olympic qualifier. The 33-year-old from St. Davids, Ont., whose opponent was a bronze medallist at the 2022 IBA Women's World...

Toronto FC gets Richie Laryea back after a three-month injury absence but Lorenzo Insigne's status is uncertain ahead of Saturday's game at D.C. United. Insigne missed Wednesday's scoreless draw in Philadelphia to be back in Naples, Italy, for the birth of his third son, Mattia. "We're doing everything we can on o...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Minjee Lee and Yuka Saso, recent champions of the strongest test of golf, set the target Friday morning with a few mistakes, a few birdies and a steady diet of pars to share the lead midway through the second round of the U.S. Women's Open. Lee, whose two majors include a Women's Open at Pine Need...

DALLAS (AP) - Dereck Lively II of the Dallas Mavericks tossed the question back at the reporter when the rookie centre was asked if he knew why so many fans shouted "Stars" during the national anthem at his home games. "You tell me why," Lively said, prompting the explanation that supporters of Dall...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday. The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to th...

DALLAS - Jason Robertson is feeling the love in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Dallas Stars winger scored his first post-season hat trick in Game 3 of the Western Conference final earlier this week. His brother, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson, posted a short video clip to social media in the aftermath of his...

MONTREAL - Canadian women's national team coach Bev Priestman says news of a foiled plan to attack soccer matches at the Paris Olympics is "a concern." French authorities on Friday handed preliminary terrorism charges to an 18-year-old accused of a plot targeting spectators attending soccer games at this summ...

HAMILTON - Scotland's Robert MacIntyre had a 4-under 66 to take the clubhouse lead in the second round of the RBC Canadian Open. He's at 10-under overall to sit three shots clear of the pack with the afternoon wave starting to play. First-round leader David Skinns of England had a 1-over 71 round to drop back into a ti...

WINNIPEG - Hockey Canada has formed a committee of stakeholders to help structure the organization's next women's and girls' hockey strategic plan. The governing body made the announcement at a news conference Friday at a women's and girls' hockey symposium with representation from all 13 of Hockey Canada's member asso...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - The on-ice success story for the Florida Panthers is easy to see: They're one win away from a second consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Final. The off-ice success isn't hard to figure out, either. With an 18th sellout of the season expected for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final on Saturday ni...

The Olds Grizzlys are pleased to introduce Peter Schaefer as the team's new head coach. Team officials say Schaefer comes to the Grizzlys after playing over 500 NHL games with the Vancouver Canucks, Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins. Schaefer is a former WHL MVP with the Brandon Wheat Kings and a Gold medal winner with...

PARIS - Canada's Leylah Fernandez is out of the French Open after losing 6-4, 7-6 (5) to Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the third round Friday. The eighth-seeded Jabeur hit three aces and won 93 points to 79 for Fernandez en route to taking the match in one hour 53 minutes. The No. 31 Fernandez of Laval, Que., had five doubl...

Jeremy Gordon has taken off his banker's hat and put on his cricket cap for Canada at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. The 37-year-old from Toronto, when not in the office as a senior support analyst at Scotiabank, bowls at 140 km/h on the cricket pitch Gordon and fellow fast bowler Kaleem Sana will lead the Canadian bowli...

DALLAS - Dallas Stars head coach Pete DeBoer is "optimistic" defenceman Chris Tanev will be available for tonight's Game 5 of the NHL's Western Conference final against the Edmonton Oilers. The shutdown blueliner didn't return after taking a shot off his right foot in the second period Wednesday. Edmonton too...