National Sports

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child , the performance would have to top anything she’d done before.

Christine Sinclair reviews her distinguished soccer career and lays down a challenge for the future in her new memoir "Playing the Long Game.

Armed with a well-rounded lineup that has plenty of star power, Canadian captain Sylvain Bruneau is aiming high at this week's Billie Jean King Cup. "We're capable of everything really," he said Monday on a pre-tournament video call from Glasgow.

NEW YORK — Dallas Stars winger Jason Robertson, Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon and San Jose Sharks defenceman Erik Karlsson have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.

MONTREAL — Judo Canada says it's joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government's new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport. Starting on Jan.

Sunday's Games CFL Semifinals Montreal 28 Hamilton 17 B.C. 30 Calgary 16 --- NHL Toronto 3 Carolina 1 Detroit 3 N.Y.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Former world No. 1 Ash Barty has emphatically ruled out ever making a comeback to tennis, or switching to another sport.

CALGARY — Brad Gushue put a flourish on his team's dominant curling to become the first men's Pan Continental champion on Sunday.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Jack O'Brien and Robbie Fromm-Delorme each scored twice as the Portland Winterhawks won a wild 8-7 Western Hockey League game in a Sunday night shootout against the never-say-die Spokane Chiefs.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Shaun Meachem of Cabri, a small town located in southwest Saskatchewan, is "the guy" this week at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.