National Sports

Toronto FC's bid to climb out of Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference basement will continue without the help of star forward Jozy Altidore.

WINNIPEG — There was a brief moment of locker-room levity after the Jets had just blown a chance to clinch a spot in the Western Conference final for the first time in franchise — and the city's — history.

If the Winnipeg Jets are going to be the first Canadian NHL team in a quarter of a century to win a Stanley Cup, they'll have to buck a recent trend of this country's clubs losing the seventh game of a playoff series.

TAMPA, Fla. — Super Bowl-winning Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is the next inductee into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Ring of Honor.

MONTREAL — Joe Scannella, who coached the Montreal Alouettes to two Grey Cup games in the 1970s, has died, the CFL club announced Tuesday. The team was informed by a family member that Scannella, who was 89, died Thursday in California.

The workouts remain essentially the same, but Jeremiah Masoli's mindset this off-season has been much different. For the first time in his pro career, Masoli prepared for a season knowing he was a starter.

TORONTO — Kyle Lowry called it a wasted season. DeMar DeRozan said it was the low point of his NBA career.

MADRID — Milos Raonic defeated third-seed Grigor Dimitrov on Tuesday at the Madrid Open to set up an all-Canadian third-round match with teenager Denis Shapovalov. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont.

SASKATOON — Humboldt Bronco forward Kaleb Dahlgren remembers putting on his suit during the bus ride to a playoff game, returning to his seat and asking his friend and teammate, Nick Shumlanski, to point out his family's house along the highway.

TORONTO — Saskatchewan comedian Kelly Taylor was booked for a cancer benefit outside Saskatoon the day after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. But as the tragic headlines poured in, the passionate hockey fan struggled to find his lighter side.