National Sports

Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie (The Answer) Edgar is looking to do what featherweight title-holder Max (Blessed) Holloway failed to do last time out against Dustin (The Diamond) Poirier — become a champion in a second weight class.

TORONTO — The NBA Finals will make a first non-American appearance on Thursday night when the Toronto Raptors host the Golden State Warriors in Game 1. The Warriors are the betting favourites, and rightly so.

TORONTO — There's nothing quite like Jurassic Park anywhere else in the NBA.

TORONTO — The Touchdown Atlantic CFL game in Moncton, N.B., will be an afternoon game instead of an evening contest in an effort to attract more fans from across the region.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Joseph Gambardella to a two-year contract extension. Gambardella, 25, has played most of the past two seasons with AHL Bakersfield. The native of Staten Island, N.Y..

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have re-signed goaltender Anders Nilsson to a two-year contract. The deal has an average annual value of US$2.6 million ($2.8 million in 2019-20, $2.4 million in 2020-21).

One week before the final game was played in the now-defunct Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), the country's top university women’s hockey teams waged their own battle for a national championship.

VANCOUVER — It's tough to slack off at B.C. Lions training camp this season. Not only are the coaches paying attention, but they know all the ways a player might cheat to save himself some energy, wide receiver Bryan Burnham said.

TORONTO — The company that owns the Toronto Raptors is auctioning off a pair of tickets to Game 1 of the NBA Finals to support an employee whose son was the victim of a hit and run over the weekend.

Tuesday's Games MLB American League Tampa Bay 3 Toronto 1 Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 1 (1st game) Chicago White Sox 4 Kansas City 3 (2nd game) Detroit 3 Baltimore 0 Cleveland 7 Boston 5 L.A.