National Sports

BOSTON — Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez suffered substantial damage to parts of the brain that affect memory, judgment and behaviour from the most severe case of a degenerative disease linked to head blows ever found in someone so

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Kaillie Humphries went to bobsled school in Lake Placid. She apparently paid attention in class.

Toronto FC striker Jozy Altidore says he knows what happened in the BMO Field tunnel melee and the video backs him up.

MILAN — Canada's Denis Shapovalov dropped his final match at the Next Gen ATP Finals, losing in five sets to Russia's Andrey Rublev on Thursday.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders won't have history on their side as they chase a fifth Grey Cup title.

Newly crowned middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre says he will discuss his fighting future with the UFC after a planned vacation. Right now his contract has him fighting interim middleweight title-holder Robert Whittaker next.

HONOLULU — Angela Lee, a Vancouver-born mixed martial arts fighter, is recovering after a car accident in Hawaii.

TORONTO — Frederik Gauthier was caught off guard when the Toronto Maple Leafs recalled him so early in the season, especially after spending part of his summer re-learning how to walk.

TORONTO — Simon Whitfield's love affair with sports began around a pothole on Couper Street in Kingston, Ont.

Jake Gardiner and the other Toronto Maple Leafs defencemen like to think they can hold their own in the faceoff circle. "Sometimes in practice we'll just joke around and go against the centermen and tell them we can beat them," Gardiner said.