National Sports

Two Canadians will be front and centre Thursday in European women's showcase soccer match.

TORONTO — Veteran linebacker Winston Venable has retired, the Toronto Argonauts announced Wednesday. Toronto signed the five-foot-11, 220-pound Venable this off-season as a free agent.

TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics reached a broad agreement Wednesday on the allocation of costs for the 2020 Games with the metropolitan, national and local governments of the seven prefectures and four other cities hosting events.

Tuesday's Games MLB American League Cleveland 9 Oakland 4 N.Y. Yankees 8 Baltimore 3 Texas 9 Tampa Bay 5 Houston 7 Minnesota 2 Kansas City 1 Detroit 0 Boston 13 Chicago White Sox 7 National League Arizona 3 Pittsburgh 0 L.A. Dodgers 9 St.

Tuesday's Games MLB American League Cleveland 9 Oakland 4 N.Y. Yankees 8 Baltimore 3 Texas 9 Tampa Bay 5 Houston 7 Minnesota 2 Kansas City 1 Detroit 0 Boston 13 Chicago White Sox 7 National League Arizona 3 Pittsburgh 0 L.A. Dodgers 9 St.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The owners who restored Muhammad Ali's boyhood home in Kentucky and opened it as a museum say it may have to close because of financial difficulties.

TORONTO — Kendrys Morales just missed getting in on the Blue Jays' home run fun in the fourth inning. He made sure the ball got over the fence when he stepped up to the plate in the eighth.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact poured in four goals and got the win, but not without some hairy moments at the end against a young Vancouver Whitecaps lineup.

SAN FRANCISCO — There is widespread agreement on one topic the day after a bench-clearing brawl that led to a six-game suspension for Giants reliever Hunter Strickland and a four-game ban for Washington slugger Bryce Harper.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The Indian man wept as a helicopter landed in Nepal's capital carrying the body of his brother, one of hundreds of climbers who have died while attempting to climb Mount Everest.