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He's appreciative of the nomination, but Jon Cornish won't lose sleep wondering if he'll be named to the CFL's all-decade team.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact have a chance for a repeat performance when their Major League Soccer season resumes on Thursday.

The Edmonton Eskimos promised to speed up a review of its name and provide an update at the end of the month after at least one of its sponsors announced it plans to cut ties with the Canadian Football League team unless it changes its name.

Stuart Macdonald wasn't quite sure what Golf Canada's Derek Ingram wanted to talk about when he was called up to his hotel room in early January, but the men's head coach was direct as soon as the conversation got going.

If it seems like it's been harder to get a tee time this summer, it's not just your imagination. Golf Canada reports that there were 17 per cent more scores registered with the national sport body this June compared to the same month last year.

Adrian Tracy isn't optimistic that he'll be playing football in 2020. The veteran defensive lineman signed with the Montreal Alouettes as a free agent Feb. 13, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put the CFL season hold.

While elite athletes occasionally represent themselves in contract talks, Scottish rugby league international Ryan Brierley has gone one big step further.

Sportsnet is trimming its six-stop Grand Slam of Curling circuit to just two events next season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — Canadian all-rounder Saad Bin Zafar has been drafted by the St. Lucia Zouks for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League cricket season. The Barbados Tridents are looking to defend their T20 title in the CPL season, which runs Aug 29 to Sept. 26.

TORONTO — Even if the CFL plays an abbreviated '20 season in a hub city under the strictest of health-and-safety guidelines, an infectious diseases doctor believes there will still be positive tests for the novel coronavirus that could force the leag