National Sports

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Players on a Saskatchewan hockey team who were hoping to continue wearing a crest to honour a teammate who committed suicide have to remove it from their jerseys before next season.

NEW YORK — Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings, Victor Hedman of the Tampa Bay Lightning and P.K. Subban of the Nashville Predators were named the three finalists for the James Norris Memorial Trophy on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Dwane Casey remembers the "powwow" he had with DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry.

TORONTO — Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron was ruled out of Thursday's playoff game against the Toronto Maple Leafs with an upper-body injury.

CALGARY — One of the Humboldt Broncos hockey players injured in a bus crash in Saskatchewan earlier this month has been transferred to Foothills Hospital in Calgary. Ryan Straschnitzki, a 19-year old from Airdrie, Alta.

Attendance is up and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have become a profitable, stable franchise but Mike O'Shea takes no satisfaction from that. That's because the Winnipeg head coach has a different measuring stick for success.

WINNIPEG — Captain Blake Wheeler isn't too worried if rookie defenceman Sami Niku fills a hole in the Winnipeg Jets' depleted defence.

MONTREAL — Light heavyweight contender Eleider Alvarez was fed up with waiting for Adonis Stevenson to give him a title fight, so now he's landed an even bigger bout with Russian Sergey (Krusher) Kovalev.

Five-time Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings has announced plans for her new beach volleyball circuit that will bring a sports and music festival to eight cities.

AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Armstrong has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit that could have sought $100 million in damages from the cyclist who was stripped of his record seven Tour de France victories a