National Sports

GLENDALE, Colo. — The Toronto Arrows suffered their first loss this season in Major League Rugby play Friday, beaten 22-19 by the Colorado Raptors thanks to Robbie Petzer's late penalty.

Canadian quarterback Brandon Bridge has shifted his focus from football to police work. Peel Regional Police announced Friday the 27-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., is pursuing a career in policing.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like “Dr. Jelly Paws.

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Canadian golfer Maddie Szeryk has the lead after the first round of the Symetra Tour's season-opening event. Szeryk, from London, Ont.

MONTREAL — Henri Richard, the speedy centre who won a record 11 Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, died Friday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 84. The Canadiens confirmed his death on Twitter.

WINNIPEG — Valour FC has acquired goalkeeper James Pantemis from the Montreal Impact for the 2020 Canadian Premier League season. While the 23-year-old from Kirkland, Que.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Right-hander Chase Anderson allowed six runs in another lacklustre spring training start, and the Toronto Blue Jays fell 19-13 to the Pittsburgh Pirates in Grapefruit Leauge play on Friday.

CALGARY — The National Sport School in Calgary that has produced Olympic and Paralympic champions will survive at least one more year.

VANCOUVER — Head coach Marc Dos Santos wants the Vancouver Whitecaps to show some early aggression when they play their first away match of the season against the LA Galaxy on Saturday.

What would Mandy Bujold say to her daughter about chasing her dreams? When the Canadian boxer was weighing a possible return to the Olympic ring four years after Games heartbreak in Rio, she pictured a future conversation with her daughter.