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TORONTO — Lisa Bowes imagined her storybook character "Lucy" as a compilation of many young girls. The freckled redhead who lived in Bowes' imagination was a bit Pippi Longstocking. She was a bit of Bowes' own daughter Rachel.

After a new ownership group moved and rebranded Vancouver's National Lacrosse League franchise, new general manager Dan Richardson was given a mandate to remake the entire roster.

NEW YORK — The World Series champion Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees will open Major League Baseball's first series in Britain with a night game and conclude the next day in the afternoon.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders promoted Brent Monson to defensive co-ordinator on Friday. He takes over from DeVone Claybrooks, who was announced as the new head coach of the B.C. Lions on Tuesday.

Canadian MMA fighter Valerie (Trouble) Letourneau went halfway around the world last time she fought for a title.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russian bobsled federation president Alexander Zubkov and four others have been provisionally suspended for doping in fallout from the Sochi Olympics.

HERTFORD, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina say a fifth-grade teacher who was also the daughter of baseball star Jim "Catfish" Hunter died after falling ill during a school fire drill.

WINNIPEG — Valour FC has signed two local players in goalkeeper Tyson Farago and midfielder Dylan Sacramento. The 27-year-old Farago joins the new Canadian Premier League team after spending most of the 2018 season with St.

AMES, Iowa — Injured Iowa State star Lindell Wigginton's shirt read "Then What?" when he met with reporters for the first time in weeks Thursday That's a question the Cyclones will soon be asking themselves once the 20-year-old from Dartmouth, N.S.