National Sports

If Andrew Wiggins needs advice on what it means to be a Canadian Olympian, he doesn't have to go very far to find it.

Goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan wept when she heard from coach Bev Priestman that she was on Canada's 18-woman Olympic roster. She got the news on the NJ/NY Gotham FC team bus in a phone conversation filmed by teammates.

Four-year-old Emmanuel Tezera has spent most of the pandemic teaching his mother Sosena how to bowl, mimicking his favourite coaches from his Special Olympics program.

MONTREAL — Eric Staal wired a shot upstairs off a Nick Suzuki pass to give the Canadiens a 2-0 lead in Game 5. Emerging second-year star to grizzled veteran.

Brad Sinopoli is leaving football happy and healthy. The Ottawa Redblacks veteran receiver announced his CFL retirement Wednesday. The 33-year-old Peterborough, Ont.

The buildup to the Tokyo Olympics — with a one-year postponement among the many challenges on a very long list — has felt more like a marathon than perhaps any Summer Games before it.

EASTBOURNE, United Kingdom — Canada's Bianca Andreescu is out of the Viking International after suffering a second-round loss on Wednesday. The third-seeded Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont.

RIMINI, Italy — Canada's men's team rebounded from a two-set deficit and upset Serbia 3-2 Wednesday in its final game at Volleyball Nations League.

LAS VEGAS — The Montreal Canadiens left something behind Tuesday in Las Vegas that you don't often see in the city they call the Entertainment Capital of the World: a disappointed audience.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant's widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.