National Sports

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired Paraguayan international midfielder Andrés Cubas via transfer from French club Nîmes Olympique.

TORONTO — It's been a competitive start for Ontario's fledgling sports-betting market but Greg Warren is anticipating that to ramp up shortly.

TORONTO — Three years after the Raptors last played post-season basketball at home, nobody on this side of the border wants to see Toronto's run end yet.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The final score didn't matter in the end.

WINNIPEG — Eric Comrie thanked his Winnipeg Jets teammates for helping him earn his first career shutout. Comrie made 35 saves in Winnipeg's 4-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday. “It feels really good.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays were forced to search for small victories Wednesday after dropping a 7-1 decision to the Boston Red Sox.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Petry scored his second goal of the game in the final minute of the third period and Sam Montembeault made 24 saves as the Montreal Canadiens beat the playoff-bound New York Rangers 4-3 Wednesday night to snap a nine-game losing

A group of more than 400 Canadian gymnasts are angry over Sport Canada's response to calls for a third-party investigation into their sport, saying it "deflects and defers any meaningful action.

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Bermuda goalkeeper Freddy Hall, who played 11 games for Toronto FC in 2012, has died in a car crash. He was 37. 'Toronto FC mourns the loss of goalkeeper Freddy Hall.

TORONTO — An unused substitute in Toronto FC's last two games, forward Ayo Akinola is still waiting for liftoff. It's been a long road back from knee surgery last August. But the 22-year-old from Brampton, Ont.