National Sports

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands — Canadian Laurent Dubreuil captured a silver medal in the men’s 500-metre event Saturday at a World Cup speedskating event. The native of Levis, Que., posted a time of 34.

The Edmonton Stingers were greeted by a raucous crowd, fireworks and a drum line in their two recent Basketball Champions League Americas games in Nicaragua.

TIGNES, France — Canada's Max Moffatt claimed a silver medal in a men's World Cup slopestyle ski event after high winds forced the cancellation of the final Saturday. Moffatt won the silver medal based upon his qualifying run Thursday.

FALUN, Sweden — Canadian Olivier Leveille finished ninth in the final individual World Cup cross-country ski race of the season. Leveille, who turned 21 earlier this week, posted a time of 32 minutes 46.

PHOENIX — The Toronto Raptors missed Fred VanVleet for five games with a knee injury. Now that the All-Star is back, Gary Trent Jr. and the rest of the Raptors feel anything is possible.

VANCOUVER — Head coach Bruce Boudreau left the second-intermission pep talk to one of his leaders on Friday.

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BEIJING — Brian McKeever of Canmore, Alta., along with guide Graham Nishikawa, has won gold in the men's para cross-country middle distance vision impaired race at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Brad Jacobs couldn't get out of the Enmax Centre fast enough after a blowout loss to Saskatchewan's Colton Flasch ended his Tim Hortons Brier playoff hopes on Friday.

UTICA, N.Y. — Frederik Gauthier scored the game-winner at 11:44 in the third period on a short-handed attempt as the Utica Comets squeezed past the Toronto Marlies 3-2 Friday in the American Hockey League.