National Sports

QUEBEC — Calgary Dinos quarterback Adam Sinagra has captured the Hec Crighton Trophy as the most outstanding player in Canadian university football. The announcement was made Thursday night at the annual U Sports football awards.

EDMONTON — Linebacker Adam Bighill of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was named the CFL's top defensive player Thursday night. The five-foot-10, 230-pound Bighill was honoured at the CFL's awards banquet.

EDMONTON — Ottawa Redblacks kicker Lewis Ward was named the CFL's top special-teams player Thursday night. Lewis was honoured at the league's awards banquet and earlier received the CFL's top rookie honour.

EDMONTON — Stanley Bryant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was named the CFL's top lineman Thursday night. Bryant was honoured at the league's awards banquet. Voting was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and nine CFL head coaches.

EDMONTON — Ottawa Redblacks kicker Lewis Ward was named the CFL's top rookie Thursday night. Lewis was honoured at the league's awards banquet. Voting was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and nine CFL head coaches.

TORONTO — Serge Beausoleil might be the head coach of the Rimouski Oceanic, but even he can feel like a student when forward Alexis Lafreniere hits the ice. "Sometimes I have to shut my mouth, I don't want to put him in a box," Beausoleil said.

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Switzerland's Beat Feuz posted the fastest time in Thursday's training while the Canadian team was suddenly bereft of two veterans ahead of Saturday's World Cup men's downhill. Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que.

EDMONTON — The Calgary Stampeders' swarming, dominant, defenders say that timing will be everything come Grey Cup Sunday when they try to disrupt the up-tempo, quick-strike offence of QB Trevor Harris and the Ottawa Redblacks.

EDMONTON — Trevor Harris describes it like being in a washing machine. His path from a tiny college in a tiny town in Pennsylvania to starting quarterback for the CFL's Ottawa Redblacks in Sunday's Grey Cup has been anything but delicate.

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — What was to be a swan-song season for Erik Guay ended early Thursday when the Canadian skier announced his retirement. Guay felt some ambivalence when he arrived in Lake Louise, Alta.