National Sports

TORONTO — One of Canadian university's most dominant players was a grocery cashier at a corner store in Nassau only a couple of seasons ago. U.S.

PHILADELPHIA — A team in metropolitan New York will join the National Lacrosse League for the 2019-20 season. The league made the announcement in a release Tuesday. The team will become the NLL's 13th franchise.

TORONTO — Freestyle ski star Mikael Kingsbury has won the 2018 Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's athlete of the year. He's the first freestyle skier to win the award.

David Shoemaker's inside knowledge of Beijing should be an asset for Canadian athletes competing there in 2022.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks have re-signed defensive lineman Ettore Lattanzio, receiver Julian Feoli-Gudino and punter Richie Leone through the 2019 season.

NEW YORK — The logo of the 2019 NHL draft takes its inspiration from one of its host city's celebrated natural landmarks. The NHL and the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday unveiled the logo for next year's draft.

LAS VEGAS — Jayson Stark, acclaimed for mixing humour with impeccable knowledge during more than four decades of commentary, has won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.

David Shoemaker's inside knowledge of Beijing should be an asset for Canadian athletes competing there in 2022.

HALIFAX — When Halifax Mooseheads players laced up their skates for the first time, the team was a gamble. It was the first Quebec Major Junior Hockey League club in the Maritimes, and the city had just lost its American Hockey League franchise.

SEATTLE — Bobby Wagner leaped over the line of scrimmage, swatted Dan Bailey's field goal attempt and sparked the Seattle Seahawks to two late touchdowns. Whether or not what Wagner did was entirely legal, he frankly didn't care.