National Sports

OTTAWA — Joey Daccord hopes his parents watched him play Sunday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs. But he wouldn't blame them if they didn't. Even he didn't know he was going to play.

HALIFAX — The Charlottetown Islanders scored six unanswered goals in a 6-4 win over the Halifax Mooseheads Sunday. Cedric Desruisseaux scored a pair of goals for Charlottetown as he helped his team come back from a 4-0 deficit.

The biggest unknown leading into a March Madness bracket reveal more than a year in the making had little to do with bubble teams or top seeds. Instead, it was the not-so-simple matter of which programs would be healthy enough to play.

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CALGARY — Alberta's Brendan Bottcher hit a game-winning angle raise for a 6-5 win over Saskatchewan's Matt Dunstone in Sunday's semifinal at the Canadian men's curling championship.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto prospect Alek Manoah pitched three innings of no-hit ball as the Blue Jays lost 5-1 to the New York Yankees in pre-season action on Sunday. The 2019 first-round pick struck out seven in the start.

Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore.

ENGADIN, SWITZERLAND — Canada's Dahria Beatty raced to 15th place in a 30-kilometre cross-country ski marathon Saturday, in the World Cup season finale. The Whitehorse resident finished the unique point-to-point race from St.

WATFORD, England — Canadian international Jessie Fleming and Chelsea won the Continental League Cup on Sunday with a 6-0 romp over Bristol City. The 23-year-old midfielder from London, Ont.

Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore.