National Sports

VANCOUVER — Brooke Henderson loves the West Coast. She hopes it'll love her back at this week's CPKC Women's Open. Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont.

MONTREAL — General manager Danny Maciocia says he wondered how his Montreal Alouettes would even hold a training camp during their tumultuous off-season.

He played in the CFL before defensive statistics were tabulated, but Wally Buono says no number could ever do justice to Carl Crennel's value to a football team.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Edmonton's Marco Arop cruised into the men's 800-metre semifinals on Tuesday at the World Athletics Championships. Arop finished atop the seventh and final heat with a time of one minute 45.05 seconds.

NEW YORK — Eugenie Bouchard advanced to the second round of qualifying at the U.S. Open with a 6-2, 6-3 win over American Katherine Hui on Tuesday. Hui struggled on serve with seven double-faults and was broken by Bouchard six times on 10 chances.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Elks’ board of governors created a list of more than 20 candidates to serve as the CFL team's interim top executive. But there was a clear No. 1 choice at the top of that list, and that was Rick LeLacheur.

TORONTO — Canadian Tre Ford was very efficient in leading the Edmonton Elks to their first win of the season. Ford, of Niagara Falls, Ont., earned the top quarterback grade of 91.7 on Tuesday in the CFL's weekly honour roll.

Canada West has announced location changes for a set of U Sports women's soccer games this weekend due to ongoing wildfires. Thompson Rivers University and UBC Okanagan were set to host a pair of games in Kamloops and Kelowna, B.C.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks sued the Toronto Raptors, their new head coach and a former Knicks scouting employee on Monday, saying the defendants conspired to steal thousands of videos and other scouting secrets over the past few weeks.

VANCOUVER — Amateur Luna Lu of Burnaby, B.C., was one of four players on Monday to earn a spot in this week's CPKC Canadian Women's Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club.