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TORONTO — The Canadian Championship will expand to 13 teams in 2019 with the addition of seven Canadian Premier League clubs.

TORONTO — It seems Duron Carter's football future is tied to just how quickly the CFL and its players can agree on a new collective bargaining agreement. The two sides have yet to hold their first bargaining session.

TORONTO — George Burnett of the Guelph Storm didn't initially set out to be the busiest general manager ahead of the Ontario Hockey League trade deadline.

CHICAGO — Defender Tierna Davidson, who decided to skip her senior season at Stanford to play professionally in the National Women's Soccer League, went to the Chicago Red Stars with the No. 1 pick in the league's draft Thursday. Davidson, named U.S.

TORONTO — Tajon Buchanan, who had to pay to take part in a Syracuse University ID camp in 2016 to make his case to join the Orange, could take centre stage Friday in an MLS SuperDraft long on Canadian talent.

TORONTO — Alysha Newman might have been wearing a megawatt smile when she soared to pole vault gold at the Commonwealth Games last March. But the 24-year-old was competing through pain so bad, she'd barely been able to practise.

TORONTO — For 30-odd seasons, this was the time of year when Daniel Nestor would likely be on a plane or a tennis court preparing for the Australian Open.

On YouTube, Simon Fraser University simply calls it "Mamadi Camara's amazing goal.

Callum Montgomery's road to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte was circuitous. After sending out a flood of emails to universities, the defender from Lantzville, B.C., didn't get much of a response other than local U.S.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky will miss Thursday night's game because of an unspecified team "incident.