National Sports

When Justine Siegal and Keith Stein envisioned the United States' first professional women's baseball league in 70 years, they wanted to do it right.

MANAGUA — After two blowout wins to open the FIBA AmeriCup men's tournament, Canada had to sweat out an 82-73 win over Puerto Rico in the final Group B game on Monday night.

TORONTO — As designated hitter, Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. eased his way into the lineup Monday in his first start since suffering a left hamstring injury a week ago.

NEW YORK — Victoria Mboko's U.S. Open debut ended early with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Barbora Krejcikova of Czechia in women's first-round singles Monday.

TORONTO — Alejandro Kirk hit a two-run homer in Toronto's four-run first inning to help power the Blue Jays to a 10-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — Even at age 45, even after two years away from Grand Slam tennis, Venus Williams displayed some big serves and powerful groundstrokes at the U.S.

OTTAWA — The reigning world and Canadian women's curling championship team skipped by Rachel Homan has announced Heather Nedohin as its coach for the upcoming season.

Canada Soccer has named its men's under-18 roster for a camp in Finland ahead of games against Finland on Sept. 5 and Switzerland on Sept. 7.

Canadians Charles (Air) Jourdain and Kyle (Killshot) Prepolec have been added to the Oct. 18 UFC Fight Night card in Vancouver.

MISSISSAUGA — When Brooke Henderson won the Canadian national women's golf championship in 2018 it created a small boom in recreational players taking up the sport.