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TORONTO — Between the titanium plates and the 13 screws assembled in a mish-mash array of angles, his X-ray looks like a pile of Pick-Up Sticks. It's almost a year ago to the day that Manuel Osborne-Paradis crashed at Lake Louise, Alta.

Trace Canada's current golden age of basketball back to its roots and the name Eli Pasquale will keep coming up. Pasquale, a two-time Olympian who played at four world championships over his career, died Monday of cancer at age 59.

There have been a lot of moving parts on Team Scheidegger this season, and that fluidity will continue into the New Year. With skip Casey Scheidegger due to give birth to her second child over the coming days, the Lethbridge, Alta.

The 2019 tennis season has been a tale of two campaigns for Canada's Denis Shapovalov. He struggled at times early in the year and had middling results over the clay and grass portion of the schedule.

The U.S. will host the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in early 2020. Canada will be one of eight countries vying for two berth in the 2020 Olympic soccer field in Tokyo.

TORONTO — The Toronto Wolfpack will make their Super League debut Feb. 2 against the Castleford Tigers. The transatlantic rugby league team will play its first home game in Round 11, on April 18 against Hull FC at Lamport Stadium.

TORONTO — Hamilton running back Cameron Marshall, Saskatchewan defensive lineman A.C. Leonard and Montreal linebacker D.J. Lalama are the top performers for the final week of the CFL regular season.

TORONTO — The road to a fourth straight Grey Cup appearance will be a little longer than usual for Bo Levi Mitchell and the Calgary Stampeders.

Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod is no stranger to beating herself up over mistakes made on the field. But over the years, the 36-year-old soccer star from St. Albert, Alta., has learned to better handle setbacks.

VISTA, Calif. — Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the possibility of life in prison.