National Sports

TORONTO — Mother-daughter time for the Carletons happened under a hoop in a high school gym. Bridget would shoot. Mom Carrie would rebound. They'd talk about their days. The rhythmic swish and bounce provided the soundtrack.

ST. MARYS, Ont. — Former Blue Jays general manager Gord Ash wasn't thinking about a lengthy career when he took a part-time job with the Toronto team's ticket office in 1977. He just wanted to watch some baseball.

YORK, England — The Toronto Wolfpack made Brian McDermott's debut as coach a winning one Sunday in an 14-0 victory over York City Knights in Betfred Championship rugby league play.

It took weeks for Jaclyn Lee to really absorb that she had become a professional golfer. The Canadian announced she was joining the LPGA Tour on Dec. 7 but it wasn't until classes at Ohio State University had resumed that it really clicked for Lee.

NEW YORK — This year some of the Super Bowl ads that grabbed the greatest buzz were surprises, like Bud Light's "Game of Thrones" teaser. Other crowd-pleasers focused on humour , like Amazon's take on celebrity product testers.

LONDON — One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago, air accident investigators said Monday.

There are a number of words you could use to describe Maroon 5's halftime show performance: Empty. Boring. Basic. Sleepy. Skippable. Unfulfilling. Unnecessary.

ATLANTA — Greying but still gritty, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots came to the Super Bowl intending to stave off, for at least one more game, the inevitable onslaught of the NFL's future. Job well done.

LONDON — The wreckage of the plane carrying soccer player Emiliano Sala was located on Sunday, two weeks after it disappeared from radar over the English Channel, according to the marine scientist leading a privately funded search for the Argentine's

BANGKOK — A soccer player who has refugee status in Australia told a Thai court Monday that he refuses to be voluntarily extradited to Bahrain, which has asked for his return to serve a prison sentence for a crime he denies committing.