The New Jersey Devils are hiring veteran coach Lindy Ruff to take over one of the NHL's youngest teams and removing the interim tag off Tom Fitzgerald's title as general manager, a person with knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Toronto FC rookie midfielder/forward Ifunanyachi Achara has undergone successful surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament and lateral collateral ligament in his left knee.

Major League Soccer recorded four more positive COVID-19 tests over the last two days at the MLS is Back Tournament in Florida.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Nearly 200 players took the field for an 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence to protest racial injustice before Major League Soccer’s return to action Wednesday night.

Stanford was already facing some difficult financial choices as it tried to support one of the nation's largest athletics departments.

After a few days of silence from the Toronto Blue Jays as their summer training camp got underway, manager Charlie Montoyo shed some light Wednesday on the team's workout sessions and preparations for the 60-game regular season that's fast approaching.

Many familiar pregame sights won't be back when baseball and the NBA return later this month. Managers won't exchange lineup cards at home plate and basketball lineup introductions won't feature special high fives.

He's appreciative of the nomination, but Jon Cornish won't lose sleep wondering if he'll be named to the CFL's all-decade team.

Toronto FC's reserve side has withdrawn from the 2020 USL League One season due to the global pandemic and accompanying travel restrictions.

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have a chance for a repeat performance when their Major League Soccer season resumes on Thursday.

Stuart Macdonald wasn't quite sure what Golf Canada's Derek Ingram wanted to talk about when he was called up to his hotel room in early January, but the men's head coach was direct as soon as the conversation got going.

Adrian Tracy isn't optimistic that he'll be playing football in 2020.

While elite athletes occasionally represent themselves in contract talks, Scottish rugby league international Ryan Brierley has gone one big step further.

The Edmonton Eskimos promised to speed up a review of its name and provide an update at the end of the month after at least one of its sponsors announced it plans to cut ties with the Canadian Football League team unless it changes its name.

Sportsnet is trimming its six-stop Grand Slam of Curling circuit to just two events next season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

If it seems like it's been harder to get a tee time this summer, it's not just your imagination.

TORONTO - Canadian all-rounder Saad Bin Zafar has been drafted by the St. Lucia Zouks for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League cricket season.

TORONTO - Even if the CFL plays an abbreviated '20 season in a hub city under the strictest of health-and-safety guidelines, an infectious diseases doctor believes there will still be positive tests for the novel coronavirus that could force the league play to end abruptly.

International Ice Hockey Federation chief Rene’ Fasel is encouraged after learning the NHL's pending labour deal opens the possibility of the world's best players returning to the Olympics.

When Meghan McPeak considers where she is in her broadcasting career, against the backdrop of racial unrest and the bleak employment numbers of Black people in her business, she says she feels like Tom Hanks' character in the movie "Castaway."

The Vancouver Whitecaps will be missing five players at the MLS is Back Tournament, including forwards Lucas Cavallini, Fredy Montero and Tosaint Ricketts.

Nick Nurse has no problem letting one of his players duck out of a meeting to take a call from one of his children.

The Toronto Blue Jays resumed summer training camp at Rogers Centre on Tuesday with a pair of workout sessions that came amid the continued uncertainty about the team's present and future plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On a night of spectacular goals in the Premier League, it was a pair of tackles that had the most significant impact on the hard-fought race for Champions League qualification.

TORONTO - Raptors Uprising GC point guard Kenneth (Kenny Got Work) Hailey has been named player of the week in the NBA 2K League for the third time this season.

COVID-19 has infiltrated the MLS is Back Tournament bubble again with five members of Nashville SC testing positive and another four producing inconclusive tests.

WASHINGTON - Wizards leading scorer Bradley Beal and Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie won't take part in the restart of the NBA season, two significant absences in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

Goalkeeper Quentin Westberg said goodbye to his family three times as Toronto FC tried to sort out COVID-19 testing ahead of flying to Florida on Monday for the MLS is Back tournament.

A broken femur and global pandemic seem like a nasty double whammy.

WASHINGTON - Baseball's two World Series teams cancelled workouts Monday because of coronavirus testing delays that one executive worried could endanger the season.

Major League Soccer's bid to resume play during the global pandemic wobbled Monday as FC Dallas was forced to withdraw from the MLS is Back Tournament after 10 players and one coach tested positive for COVID-19.

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have taken a massive step towards resuming the pandemic-hit 2019-20 season later this summer in Edmonton and Toronto — along with securing labour peace for the foreseeable future.

LONDON - When Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris confronted Son Heung-min on the field at halftime, Jose Mourinho was far from annoyed.

Summer training camp kicked off quietly for the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday as most of the team returned to Rogers Centre to resume preparations for a shortened regular season while several players remained in Florida after another reported positive COVID-19 case.

WASHINGTON - NASCAR’s layered relationship with President Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday when Trump took a sideswipe at the racing organization for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the sport’s only full-time Black driver of perpetrating “a hoax” when a crew member foun…

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have taken a massive step towards resuming the pandemic-hit 2019-20 season later this summer — and securing labour peace for the foreseeable future.

Toronto FC and the Vancouver Whitecaps finally left for Florida on Monday after delays related to COVID-19.

WINNIPEG - The CFL still hasn't approached the Manitoba government about Winnipeg being a hub city for a potential 2020 season, but the province's chief public health officer thinks the plan could work.

The NBA shutdown provided a silver lining for new dad Oshae Brissett.

LOS ANGELES - Major League Soccer MVP Carlos Vela will not accompany Los Angeles FC to the league's return tournament in Orlando this month.

TORONTO - York 9 FC has parted ways with Peruvian forward Adrian Ugarizza, who had yet to play in a game with the CPL side after signing in February.

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack, currently at the bottom of the Betfred Super League standings at 0-6-0, will have to wait a little longer to find out whether relegation will be taken off the table in the 2020 pandemic-disputed season.

Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a documentary series produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Co.

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Toronto Blue Jays catcher Reese McGuire has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge — a second-degree misdemeanour — and paid fines totalling US$500 stemming from a February incident in Florida.

NEW YORK - The NHL says 35 players have tested positive for the novel coronavirus over roughly the past month.

OTTAWA - The Vancouver Whitecaps have loaned Canadian youth international Gianfranco Facchineri to expansion Atletico Ottawa of the Canadian Premier League until the end of September.

The FIFA representative leading the review of candidate cities for the 2026 World Cup says Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto are the only sites under consideration in Canada.

Kevin Pangos is on the move to Russia after Barcelona chose not to re-sign the Canadian guard.