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Toronto FC striker Sebastian Giovinco, forced out of Wednesday's 2-2 tie in New York with a lower back bruise, was reported moving and feeling better Thursday.

BOSTON — Steve Pearce blooped the ball to the edge of the outfield grass, and Red Sox second baseman Brock Holt was there. He planted his feet. He raised his arm to catch it. But something wasn't quite right.

SOUTHPORT, England — The wind off the Irish Sea pushed away the rain clouds and bathed Royal Birkdale in sunshine, Stars and Stripes. The British Open began Thursday with an All-American flavour .

LOVELOCK, Nev. — O.J.

Nik Lewis is now part of a very elite group. The veteran receiver cracked the 1,000-catch plateau Wednesday night in the Montreal Alouettes' 24-19 loss to the Ottawa Redblacks.

TORONTO — Looking to capture the growing number of consumers cutting their cable cord, DAZN has launched a sports streaming service in Canada.

UFC fights can start in all sorts of places. For Canadian featherweight Jeremy (JBC) Kennedy, the seed for Saturday's showdown with Kyle (Crash) Bochniak was planted in a podcast.

VANCOUVER — A career performance by Travis Lulay doesn't mean the B.C. Lions quarterback is about to start second-guessing his role with the team.

COL D'IZOARD, France — On the highest mountain-top finish of the 104th Tour de France, in a rocky moonscape where the air thins, only the hardiest organisms survive.

INDIANAPOLIS — Dale Earnhardt Jr. got the replacement he wanted. Alex Bowman got his dream job. Hendrick Motorsports announced Thursday that the 24-year-old Bowman will replace one of the series' biggest stars in the No.