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TORONTO — The Canadian Premier League has joined the Canadian Football League in asking the federal government for financial assistance during the global pandemic.

Canadian Larry Walker, Derek Jeter and the rest of this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame class will have to wait another year for their big moment at Cooperstown.

TORONTO — An associate professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management calls the CFL's bid for securing financial aid from the Canadian government a "Hail Mary pass.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is in discussions with the CFL, which is seeking financial support to help with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — Terence Davis was enjoying a rookie campaign well beyond his own expectations.

Commissioner Roger Goodell has reduced his salary to $0 and other NFL employees will be taking pay cuts or furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Asked at a Bayern Munich video news conference this week about his role models on and off the pitch, Alphonso Davies cited Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the football players he looked up to. The Canadian teenager then went closer to home.

TORONTO — It's been a meteoric rise for Jordan Williams.

Ken Hitchcock remembers eagerly attending coaching symposiums in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The goal was simple: soak up as much hockey information as possible.

His karate dojo closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Eduardo Hernandez participates in its online Zoom classes. But there's something missing for the 15-year-old Calgarian. "A lot of motivation," the teenager said.