National Sports

The breakthrough season for Canadian beach volleyball players Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson started with their first World Tour bronze medal together last spring. More podium appearances were quick to follow.

HALIFAX — A group of professional sports executives quarterbacking a plan to bring a Canadian Football League team to Halifax is set to make an announcement Wednesday as it ramps up efforts to secure a conditional expansion franchise.

Canada's gain is also Canada's loss when it comes to Quinn Ngawati. The 19-year-old from Victoria, the first Canadian-born player to appear in a professional rugby league game, is now training with the Canadian rugby sevens team.

TORONTO — Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly and running back CJ Gable and Montreal running back William Stanback are the CFL's top performers for the final week of the 2018 regular season.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators' Uber video saga is just the latest negative headline for a team used to bad news.

TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows, Canada's first pro rugby union franchise, formally started filling their roster Tuesday with 12 signings. The Arrows are slated to open play in January in Major League Rugby.

Hockey groups across the country are looking for ways to manage runaway scores in a bid to keep the sport fun for kids.

The good news for curling is new rinks are opening. The bad news is even more are closing. Chilliwack, B.C., Berwick, N.S., Chelsea and Riviere-du-Loup, Que., have opened, or are about to open, new facilities for their local curling clubs this year.

Ottawa Senators players who were caught on tape joking about and criticizing their team's defence in a video posted online are apologizing for their comments.

DENVER — Canada's Jamal Murray simply got caught up in the moment when he hoisted a long shot with the clock winding down. He took some heat for it. No disrespect meant, he maintained. Murray, from Kitchener, Ont.