National Sports

SEVILLE, Spain — A bizarre blunder by the goalkeeper helped Spain find its scoring touch at the European Championship. And it also helped them advance to the round of 16.

If Andrew Wiggins needs advice on what it means to be a Canadian Olympian, he doesn't have to go very far to find it.

Goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan wept when she heard from coach Bev Priestman that she was on Canada's 18-woman Olympic roster. She got the news on the NJ/NY Gotham FC team bus in a phone conversation filmed by teammates.

Four-year-old Emmanuel Tezera has spent most of the pandemic teaching his mother Sosena how to bowl, mimicking his favourite coaches from his Special Olympics program.

MONTREAL — Eric Staal wired a shot upstairs off a Nick Suzuki pass to give the Canadiens a 2-0 lead in Game 5. Emerging second-year star to grizzled veteran.

Brad Sinopoli is leaving football happy and healthy. The Ottawa Redblacks veteran receiver announced his CFL retirement Wednesday. The 33-year-old Peterborough, Ont.

The buildup to the Tokyo Olympics — with a one-year postponement among the many challenges on a very long list — has felt more like a marathon than perhaps any Summer Games before it.

EASTBOURNE, United Kingdom — Canada's Bianca Andreescu is out of the Viking International after suffering a second-round loss on Wednesday. The third-seeded Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont.

RIMINI, Italy — Canada's men's team rebounded from a two-set deficit and upset Serbia 3-2 Wednesday in its final game at Volleyball Nations League.

LAS VEGAS — The Montreal Canadiens left something behind Tuesday in Las Vegas that you don't often see in the city they call the Entertainment Capital of the World: a disappointed audience.