National Sports

MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes signed Canadian long snapper Martin Bedard and defensive back Mikael Charland to one-year contracts. Bedard is entering his 10th season with the Alouettes. The 33-year-old Laval, Que.

PHILADELPHIA — Major League Soccer's SuperDraft, always a crapshoot, is more complicated than ever this year.

Danica Patrick is going back to green. GoDaddy Green, to be exact — a fitting colour for her farewell tour. The company will sponsor Patrick in the upcoming "Danica Double" that will close out her racing career, The Associated Press has learned.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — When athletes from the rival Koreas paraded together behind a single flag for the first time at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it was a highly emotional event that came on a wave of hope for reconciliati

NEW YORK — The NBA announced Thursday that 11-time Grammy winner Pharrell and his hip-hop-rock band N.E.R.D will headline the halftime show at the 2018 NBA All-Star game in Los Angeles next month.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Three of Canada's top tennis stars have now been eliminated from the Australian Open tennis tournament. The latest was unseeded Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que.

Wednesday's Games NHL Boston 4 Montreal 1 Anaheim 5 Pittsburgh 3 --- AHL Belleville 2 Syracuse 1 (OT) San Diego 5 Tucson 3 Charlotte 4 Bridgeport 3 Milwaukee 4 Grand Rapids 3 Cleveland 4 Rockford 3 (SO) Utica 3 Rochester 2 (SO) WB/Scranton 4 Lehigh V

BOSTON — The Bruins showed former coach Claude Julien what a changed style looks like in Boston.

TORONTO — Dwane Casey wasn't giving the Toronto Raptors any style points Wednesday night. C.J. Miles had 21 points as Toronto pulled away for a 96-91 home win over the Detroit Pistons despite committing 21 turnovers.

BELLEVILLE, Ont. — Max McCormick scored 2:13 into overtime as the Belleville Senators beat Syracuse 2-1 on Wednesday in American Hockey League action, snapping the Crunch's win streak at nine games.