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TORONTO — Doug Flutie can feel CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie's pain. Ambrosie continues to discuss potential contingency plans for the 2020 CFL season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — Former Blue Jays executive Pat Gillick remembers former Toronto second baseman Damaso Garcia as a "very good player and a very good person.

TORONTO — This weekend was to have been Sonny Bill Williams' coming-out party in Toronto, with the former All Blacks star slated to make his Canadian debut for the Wolfpack before an expected sellout at Lamport Stadium.

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TORONTO — The 2020 RBC Canadian Open, one of the jewels of the country's sports calendar, has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alex (Exraa) Gonzalez-Aldana will be playing for his job as the Vancouver Whitecaps' resident pro gamer, thanks to a new esports talent search tournament.

Tokyo Olympic organizers and the IOC said Thursday they will cut some of the extras out of next year’s postponed games, an attempt to limit what is expected to be billions of dollars in added expenses.

Michael Jordan described his final NBA championship season with the Chicago Bulls as a “trying year.” “We were all trying to enjoy that year knowing it was coming to an end,” Jordan told Good Morning America on Thursday.

A list of Canadian international and domestic sporting events impacted by COVID-19: OLYMPICS — 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics postponed until 2021.

The 2020 RBC Canadian Open has been cancelled. The PGA Tour, Golf Canada and RBC announced the event's long-speculated cancellation on Thursday morning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled for June 8-14 at St.