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VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps came in to their match against the San Jose Earthquakes on Sunday preaching the importance of home wins to guarantee their goal of reaching the playoffs.

REGINA — Despite having their hands full with quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., the Saskatchewan Roughriders are heading into a bye week on a positive note. The Riders survived a furious fourth quarter rally by the B.C. Lions, spearheaded by Adams Jr.

LANGFORD, B.C. — Canada's women's rugby sevens team is going to next summer's Olympic Games in Paris, but the men's team will have to continue trying to qualify.

Toronto FC's nosedive continued Sunday in a 3-2 Major League Soccer loss to CF Montreal that showed some good but a lot more bad.

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Novak Djokovic outlasted Carlos Alcaraz in a thrilling rematch of their Wimbledon final, winning 5-7, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4) on Sunday to take the Western & Southern Open.

TORONTO — Patrick Husbands isn't one to mess with a winning formula.

CALGARY — Ken Duke had a feeling he would win a PGA Tour Champions event in Canada. With a birdie on the par 5 finishing hole of the Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club on Sunday, Duke did just that as he won the 2023 Shaw Charity Classic.

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — Viktor Hovland kept hitting every shot just the way he wanted on the back nine at Olympia Fields. Rory McIlroy was keeping his card and kept writing “3” in just about every box.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Brandon Belt had his second multihomer game this season, Hyun Jin Ryu won consecutive starts for the first time since his latest Tommy John surgery and Toronto Blue Jays routed the Cincinnati Reds 10-3 Sunday to win the series betwe

SURREY, B.C. — A video of a fourth-quarter touchdown throw from ex-B. C. Lion Nathan Rourke went viral on social media last week in his first pre-season game for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars.