National Sports

ARLINGTON — Life in the Volleyball Nations League continues to be long on lessons and short on victories for the Canadian women's team.

ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. won't participate in the Home Run Derby, replaced Friday by Atlanta teammate and fellow All-Star Matt Olson.

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — The hardest task for Chris Gotterup was waking up Friday.

HAMILTON — It's been a long road back for Reggie Stubblefield. Stubblefield will make his Hamilton debut Saturday night when the Tiger-Cats (2-2) host the Ottawa Redblacks (1-4).

MONACO — Canada’s Sarah Mitton placed third in the women’s shot put at the Diamond League meet in Monaco on Friday with a throw of 20.00 metres. Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands won with 20.39, and American Chase Jackson was second with 20.06.

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — Top-ranked amateur Lottie Woad is living up to her pre-tournament billing and in contention at the halfway point of the Evian Championship . Keeping pace with world No.

MUR-DE--BRETAGNE, France (AP) — Less than a week after the Tour de France began, world champion Tadej Pogačar secured a second stage win at the top of a challenging climb and and reclaimed the yellow jersey on Friday.

TORONTO — Tsubasa Endoh comes full circle Saturday when he retires as a Toronto FC player. After being diagnosed with acute undifferentiated leukemia in December 2021, the 31-year-old winger from Japan had a dream.

VANCOUVER — Being back on the pitch doing some light training is a step forward for Ryan Gauld, but the Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder isn’t rushing his return to playing.

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have signed defenceman Isaak Phillips to a two-year, two-way contract, the NHL club announced Friday. The deal has an average annual value in of US$812,500 at the NHL level. The 23-year-old from Barrie, Ont.