National Sports

TORONTO — Midfielders Atiba Hutchinson and Will Johnson, both former national players of the year, have been named to Canada's men's soccer team ahead of a friendly with Jamaica on Sept. 2. Hutchinson, from Brampton, Ont.

MONTREAL — Valerie Maltais of Saguenay, Que., withdrew from Canada's 2018 short-track speedskating team Olympic selection competition on Saturday due to a concussion.

NEW YORK — A former New York City police officer, whose claims of police corruption in the 1970s were chronicled in an Al Pacino movie, joined dozens of current and former officers Saturday at a rally in support of getting quarterback Colin Kaepernic

Free-scoring, tight at the back, and confidence oozing through the side, Manchester United already might be the team to beat in the English Premier League.

VANCOUVER — Calgary Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson hounded his team all week about their sloppy practices after enjoying some time off to heal bumps and bruises.

Friday's Games CFL Ottawa 37 Hamilton 18 Calgary 21 B.C. 17 --- NFL pre-season Seattle 20 Minnesota 13 --- MLB American Baltimore 9 L.A. Angels 7 Boston 9 N.Y.

HAMILTON — Wide receiver Ricky Collins Jr. was acquired by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night in a trade with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Hamilton also got a seventh round pick in the 2018 CFL draft.

HAMILTON — Ottawa Redblacks kicker Brett Maher kept putting points on the board even as his team's drives were stalling against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night.

NEW YORK — Canadian guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes signed with the New York Knicks on Friday night. The six-foot-three, 210-pound native of Markham, Ont., went undrafted in the 2017 draft out of Florida State. He had 1,236 points in 100 career NCAA games.

CHICAGO — Jake Arrieta may never duplicate the second half he had two years ago in winning the NL Cy Young Award. The Cubs don't care. They'll take what the right-hander is giving them now.