National Sports

The CFL is resuming play after cancelling the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league will kick off a 14-game 2021 campaign Thursday night with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers hosting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

TOKYO — Canada threatened to add to its medal total Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics but, despite a few close calls, the nation was left without any hardware to celebrate for the second straight day.

TOKYO — Simone Biles returned to the competition at the Tokyo Olympics in style, and will leave with another medal. What color it is really isn't the point.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers finally get to unfurl their Grey Cup banner Thursday, some 620 days after earning it.

TOKYO — Ellie Black finished fourth in the beam final at the Tokyo Olympics, just missing a first Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics for Canada. Black finished with a score of 13.866 points.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Angela Bailey, the Canadian women's record holder in the 100-metre sprint and an Olympic 4x100 relay silver medal winner, has died after battling cancer under complicated conditions. She was 59 years old.

TORONTO — Raptors star guard Kyle Lowry is headed to the Miami Heat. Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying "Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry" and "Let's Goo!!" followed by five fire emojis.

Toronto lefty Robby Ray laboured in his first outing in a Blue Jays uniform at the Rogers Centre on Monday in a 5-2, 10th-inning defeat against Cleveland.

TORONTO — Star point guard Kyle Lowry is leaving the Raptors to sign with the Miami Heat, ending a successful nine-season run in Toronto that included seven straight playoff appearances and the franchise's lone NBA championship in 2019.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays say they have traded John Axford to the Milwaukee Brewers for cash considerations. The 38-year-old right-handed pitcher has a 0.84 ERA over 10 2/3 innings in Triple-A, striking out 14.