National Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — With 2 1/2 weeks left in the WNBA's regular season, the league has already broken its single-season attendance record.

VANCOUVER — A decade into her career as a mixed martial arts fighter, Jasmine Jasudavicius is still learning. Now the world is starting to learn about the Canadian, too.

MONTERREY — Canada's Leylah Fernandez has been eliminated from the Monterey Open after falling 6-2, 3-6, 2-6 to Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia on Wednesday. The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., took the first set of the round-of-16 matchup, winning 64.

Former captain Tyler Ardron returns to the Canadian rugby lineup up for the first time in almost four years on Friday when Canada hosts the United States in Calgary in the Pacific Nations Cup.

Reinier (The Dutch Knight) de Ridder, ranked fifth among UFC middleweight contenders, will face No. 6 Anthony (Fluffy) Hernandez in the main event of the Oct. 18 UFC Fight Night card in Vancouver.

MONTREAL — After reaching the pinnacle of the NBA with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Luguentz Dort was in the heights of Old Montreal to receive an honour at City Hall on Wednesday.

BOGOTÁ — Canada's senior men's wheelchair basketball team narrowly missed out on a medal at the IWBF Americas Cup with a 48-47 loss to host Colombia in the bronze-medal game on Wednesday.

WINSTON-SALEM — Montreal's Gabriel Diallo was eliminated in the third round of the Winston-Salem Open hardcourt tennis tournament with a 6-4, 6-2 loss to Serbia's Hamad Medjedovic on Wednesday.

MONTREAL — Four weeks after pledging a rebuild in an open letter to fans, CF Montreal is parting with one of its leaders.

For Canada Games Council CEO Kelly-Ann Paul, the timing of Air Canada’s strike was nothing short of "surreal." Air Canada grounded thousands of flights last Saturday when its flight attendants went on strike, disrupting the Canada Games in St.