National Sports

OTTAWA — Marcel Bellefeuille is back as the University of Ottawa's head football coach. The school announced Bellefeuille's return Thursday. Bellefeuille served as the school's head coach from 1998-2000 before heading to the CFL.

MONTREAL — Jason Dorrington was looking forward to playing for six softball teams this summer, until recreational sports across the country ground to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly 80 years after Veronica Clarke's virtual retirement from competitive figure skating, her children are pleased to see she will be in Skate Canada's Hall of Fame.

TORONTO — A poll suggests that while Canadians want to get back to organized sports and group physical activities post-pandemic, it may take time for some to feel comfortable doing so.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact's inability to hold individual workouts at their training facility has proved to be costly.

TORONTO — Every evening at around 7:30, Justyn Warner curls up with a stack of storybooks to read to his three-year-old daughter Parys until she falls asleep. Her favourite is "The Little Red Caboose," and so every evening begins with that book.

TORONTO — Commissioner Randy Ambrosie gave the CFL some much-needed breathing room Wednesday. Ambrosie told CFL season-ticket holders during a video conference the earliest the league could start the 2020 regular season is September.

TORONTO — Tyson Barrie is trying to keep things in perspective. More than 80,000 people in Canada are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19, and the country's death toll has surpassed 6,000.

A list of Canadian international and domestic sporting events impacted by COVID-19: OLYMPICS — 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics postponed until 2021.

TORONTO — The 83rd running of the $1-million Pattison Canadian International is going to have to wait a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.