National Sports

The Halifax Mooseheads hope an exciting crop of draft-eligible players will help the team move on from the likely departure of star sniper Nico Hischier.

The Erie Otters will begin their Ontario Hockey League title defence with a rookie coach and without many of the stars that helped them to a CHL-record fourth straight 50-win season in 2016-17.

TORONTO — After firing coach Mark Anscombe following a failed first crack at World Cup qualifying, Rugby Canada is starting to put the people in place to help turn around the men's national team program.

TORONTO — B.C. Lions linebacker Micah Awe was fined the maximum amount by the CFL on Wednesday for his hits on Calgary Stampeders running backs Jerome Messam and Roy Finch.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed Canadian defensive back Elie Bouka on Wednesday. The Riders drafted Bouka in the third round, 24th overall, out of the University of Calgary in the 2016 CFL draft.

NEW YORK — The administrative judge hearing a misconduct case against a police officer who wrongly arrested tennis star James Blake briefly sealed the courtroom Wednesday to discuss the officer's disciplinary record.

Loui Eriksson's first season with the Vancouver Canucks can pretty much be summed up by an unfortunate sequence in the first period of his first game. The effort was there. The results? Not so much.

TORONTO — When the ball cleared the fence at Rogers Centre on Tuesday night to set a Major League Baseball record for home runs in a season, it didn't come off the bat of Toronto sluggers Jose Bautista or Josh Donaldson.

SURREY, B.C. — Alex Bazzie wanted to make sure he had shaken his NFL hangover. The defensive lineman signed a contract with the B.C.

New mom Serena Williams is thanking her own mother for being the role model she says she needed. In an open letter to her mother posted to Reddit , Williams calls mom Oracene Price "one of the strongest women I know.