National Sports

OTTAWA — Football Canada and former CFL star Doug Flutie are teaming up. The sport's national governing body announced Thursday it has agreed to a licensing agreement with Canuck Play Inc.

VANCOUVER — Fans expected big things from Quinn Hughes as he began his first full season with the Vancouver Canucks last fall.

ROME — Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record on Thursday.

Canadian Jeff (The Silencer) Smith will be back performing in front of fans Friday at the 300,000-pound ($512,660) Bwin World Series of Darts Finals in Salzburg, Austria.

It was a brilliant first catch, but Jay Fujimura had no doubt Chase Claypool would come down with the football.

It was a brilliant first catch, but Jay Fujimura had no doubt Chase Claypool would come down with the football.

A pair of fighters from Windsor, Ont., will carry Canadian colours on Saturday's UFC card in Las Vegas. Strawweight Randa (Quiet Storm) Markos and featherweight T.J. (The Truth) Laramie are at different stages of their mixed martial arts careers.

The Fed Cup is changing its name to honour tennis great Billie Jean King, the woman whose lifelong battle for equality and social justice laid the foundation for generations that followed.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have added Manny Malhotra to the bench, hiring the former NHL centre as an assistant coach. Malhotra, 40, spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks.

Canada's Olympic team doctor believes the Tokyo Games can happen in 2021 without a COVID-19 vaccine, but feels the event will require major modifications. While he calls the global effort to produce a vaccine unprecedented, Dr.