National Sports

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays appear one step closer to being able to train at Rogers Centre for the upcoming season.

MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner who looked into the death last year of a 24-year-old runner in a Montreal half-marathon is raising several issues with communication and organization at the event. Patrick Neely died last Sept.

The Toronto Raptors' return to basketball has them living in an otherwise empty hotel in the Fort Myers area of Florida, a COVID-19 hotspot that has seen new cases skyrocketing.

Fred VanVleet wishes he could wear "everybody's name ever" on the back of his Toronto Raptors jersey in honour of the Black Lives Matter movement.

TORONTO — The NHL says 26 players have tested positive for COVID-19 since Phase 2 of its return-to-play protocol started June 8. The numbers released Monday include four new cases in addition to 11 positive results previously announced June 19.

Toronto FC and the Vancouver Whitecaps say no one at their club has tested positive for COVID-19. The Montreal Impact, who announced in mid-April that a club employee had tested positive, did not want to discuss the issue.

Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser made US$24,000, including a $12,000 win bonus, for his knockout win over Brazil's Philipe (Monstro) Lins on Saturday's UFC Fight Night show in Las Vegas.

LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL player’s activism.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left its mark on TV fishing host Bob Izumi's professional and personal life. The affable Izumi resumed filming for his Real Fishing television show about two-and-a-half weeks ago due to the outbreak.

While the Professional Fighters League is on hiatus due to COVID-19, training and family are keeping Canadian MMA fighter Rory (Red King) MacDonald busy.