National Sports

REGINA — Saskatchewan head coach and GM Chris Jones said Monday that there's no point blaming the CFL playoff structure for the Roughriders' exit from the post-season.

TORONTO — Late in third quarter Sunday night, Pascal Siakam chased down Washington's Mike Scott, gobbling up the distance with each giant stride.

TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan has earned the NBA's Eastern Conference player of the week honour after leading the Raptors to four consecutive wins. It's the sixth time DeRozan has won the award. DeRozan averaged 26.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 6.

CALGARY — The scene in the Calgary Stampeders locker-room after last year's Grey Cup is imprinted in Alex Singleton's brain.

ROME — First it was the captain. Then the coach. And now it's the president. One by one, the totems of Italian soccer are stepping aside.

ATLANTA — One of the nation's largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of smoke in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta.

TORONTO — It speaks volumes about Toronto FC's smooth path this year that it made MLS history with a 69-point regular season while manoeuvring a changing of the guard in goal that barely made a headline.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the NFL should suspend Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch. Lynch sat during most of the U.S.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The WTA says 1998 Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died at the age of 49. The women's tennis body says Novotna died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. The WTA made the announcement on Monday.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Pancho Segura, who rose from poverty to win six U.S. Pro singles and doubles championships and was one of the world's top amateur tennis players in the 1940s and professionals in the 1950s, has died. He was 96.