National Sports

CALGARY — Both the Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets had drama this season even before the NHL's COVID-19 interruption.

World Rugby has scrapped the combined men's and women's events in Dubai and Cape Town, the first two rounds of next season's HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, due to the global pandemic. The events were provisionally scheduled for Nov. 26-28 and Dec.

EDMONTON — Connor McDavid picked up where he left off, scoring two goals to pace the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames in NHL exhibition play Tuesday.

Tuesday's Games (All Times Eastern) NHL Exhibition At Toronto Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 2 (OT) Toronto 4 Montreal 2 At Edmonton Edmonton 4 Calgary 1 MLB Toronto 5 at Washington 1 Tampa Bay 5 Atlanta 2 Cleveland 4 Chicago White Sox 3 Detroit 4 Kansas

TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe only really noticed the fact his team was playing in front of no fans during Tuesday's national anthem. Other than that, the Toronto Maple Leafs head coach felt like it was a pretty normal game — in an extremely abnormal time.

ST. CATHERINES, Ont. — Cameron Forte had 30 points, 10 rebounds and one assist in an 87-77 Fraser Valley Bandits comeback victory over the Saskatchewan Rattlers Tuesday night.

WASHINGTON — The reigning World Series champion Nationals dropped to 1-4 in the pandemic-shortened season with a 5-1 loss to the Blue Jays on Tuesday night that included two outfielders colliding on a homer by Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

TORONTO — Pittsburgh's Conor Sheary scored the first-ever NHL goal in the month of July, but his Penguins lost 3-2 in overtime to the Philadelphia Flyers in exhibition play on Tuesday at Scotiabank Arena.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The lackadaisical defending and sloppy backcourt turnovers said everything about the Toronto Raptors' exhibition finale. They're tired of scrimmages. Bring on the real games.

Manchester City was “strongly condemned” by a Court of Arbitration for Sport panel for obstructing the investigation into its finances that led to the club being fined €10 million ($12 million).