National Sports

SHANGHAI — Canada's men's basketball coach Nick Nurse has plenty of sympathy for Dainius Adomaitis.

SHANGHAI — Count Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse among the legion of Bianca Andreescu fans. Nurse woke up early Sunday morning in China to a flurry of texts from Toronto about the Canadian tennis phenom.

SHANGHAI — Andrew Nembhard's summer basketball highlight actually happened before Canada's team touched down in China for the FIBA World Cup. Quarterbacking Canada's second unit, the 19-year-old from Aurora, Ont.

VANCOUVER — Playing better still wasn’t good enough for Canada’s senior men’s rugby team as they saw an early 12-point lead slowly whittled away in a 20-15 loss to the United States Saturday night in the final match for both teams prior to the Rugby

Saturday's Games CFL Toronto 46 Ottawa 17 Winnipeg 35 Saskatchewan 10 Calgary 33 Edmonton 17 --- MLB American League N.Y. Yankees 5 Boston 1 Tampa Bay 5 Toronto 3 Houston 2 Seattle 1 Texas 9 Baltimore 4 Minnesota 5 Cleveland 3 L.A.

MONTREAL — Canada has won its third straight FIBA 3x3 Women's Series tournament title after downing Japan 21-13 on Saturday. Michelle Plouffe led the way in the championship for Canada with 10 points and seven rebounds.

TORONTO — In a 6-0 thumping of an outgunned Cuba, Canadian teenager Jonathan David somehow managed to outshine hat-trick hero Junior Hoilett with a strike that put him in the record books.

EDMONTON — Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell’s return to the fold has sparked the Calgary Stampeders.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Daniel Robertson came up with the big hits for the Tampa Bay Rays in the team's 144th game of the season.

GUELPH, Ont. — Theo Landers threw for 230 yards and four touchdowns in the Guelph Gryphons' 53-19 rout of the York Lions on Saturday afternoon in Canadian university football action.