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TORONTO — Tajon Buchanan, who had to pay to take part in a Syracuse University ID camp in 2016 to make his case to join the Orange, could take centre stage Friday in an MLS SuperDraft long on Canadian talent.

TORONTO — Alysha Newman might have been wearing a megawatt smile when she soared to pole vault gold at the Commonwealth Games last March. But the 24-year-old was competing through pain so bad, she'd barely been able to practise.

TORONTO — For 30-odd seasons, this was the time of year when Daniel Nestor would likely be on a plane or a tennis court preparing for the Australian Open.

On YouTube, Simon Fraser University simply calls it "Mamadi Camara's amazing goal.

Callum Montgomery's road to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte was circuitous. After sending out a flood of emails to universities, the defender from Lantzville, B.C., didn't get much of a response other than local U.S.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky will miss Thursday night's game because of an unspecified team "incident.

He's yet to coach a game for the B.C. Lions, but DeVone Claybrooks isn't worried about having to fill the shoes of legendary head coach Wally Buono.

He's yet to coach a game for the B.C. Lions, but DeVone Claybrooks isn't worried about having to fill the shoes of legendary head coach Wally Buono.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are aiming for the same record from opposite sides of the draw, leaving open the prospect of them playing in the final for a seventh Australian Open title.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Peter Polansky and Bianca Andreescu advanced to the third round of the Australian Open's qualifying draw on Thursday while fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated. Polansky, from Thornhill, Ont.