National Sports

OTTAWA — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman had planned to be at the Canadian Tire Centre on Monday night for the game between the host Senators and the visiting Florida Panthers.

OTTAWA — Hockey Canada says players from the 2018 world junior hockey team will not be considered for international competition until an investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of the team is complete.

A gymnast says he was abused in his sport and then broken by a Canadian system that failed to address that abuse. Ryan Sheehan spoke Monday in Ottawa to a parliamentary committee on safe sport.

TORONTO — Ontario's labour ministry says it's reviewing concerns brought forward by the CFL Players' Association and other professional athlete unions.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Trea Turner hit a two-run homer and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 Monday in spring training baseball action.

TORONTO — Canada coach John Herdman paused when the issue of the men's and women's teams' ongoing labour dispute with Canada Soccer came up in his pre-game availability Monday ahead of a CONCACAF Nations League showdown with Honduras.

MIAMI — Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Miami Open after being upset 6-2, 7-5 in a third-round match with Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo.

It's not much to look at and about as exciting to watch as paint drying, but it's a technique Canadian Jeff Gustafson has parlayed into big success on the pro bass circuit. On Sunday, the Kenora, Ont.

TORONTO — Jockey Steve Bahen, who rode 82-1 long-shot T J's Lucky Moon to a stunning victory in the 2002 Queen’s Plate, retired Monday. Bahen, a 56-year-old Montreal native, had been pondering retirement since the end of the 2022 season.

TORONTO — When Kylie Masse looks around the pool deck at Toronto's Pan Am Centre, she sees a lot of friendly, familiar faces from Canada's swimming community.