National Sports

ALLISTON, Ont. — Wednesday promises to be a special day for Michael Krzeminski. After catching the eye of Canada coach Octavio Zambrano while playing for the Woodbridge Strikers of League 1 Ontario, the 23-year-old from Mississauga, Ont.

CALGARY — An 18-year-old Kent Hehr was playing on a rotten hockey team in Saskatchewan when his hometown of Calgary was the host city of the 1988 Winter Olympics.

TORONTO — For Scotiabank, the attraction was simple. In a country where hockey is king, having your name up in lights on the home of the Maple Leafs is where you want to be.

CALGARY — Researchers say a warning line intended to get hockey players to keep their heads up around the boards has the opposite effect.

Back on snow after his horrific crash, Canadian snowboard star Mark McMorris is plotting a return to competition in December.

TORONTO — Calgary's DaVaris Daniels, Montreal's Nik Lewis and Ottawa's Diontae Spencer made it a sweep for wide receivers as the CFL named its top performers for Week 10 of the season.

KELOWNA, B.C. — A gymnastics coach who secretly filmed his young athletes using the toilet has received a two-year sentence for making and possessing child pornography.

Art Briles won't be resuming his coaching career with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The CFL and Ticats issued a joint statement Monday night saying Briles wouldn't be heading north.

NEW YORK — When Maria Sharapova's first Grand Slam match after a 15-month doping suspension ended with a victory at the U.S. Open, she dropped to her knees and covered her face, tears welling in her eyes.

Monday's Games MLB American League Boston 6 Toronto 5 Baltimore 7 Seattle 6 Cleveland 6 N.Y. Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 12 Kansas City 0 L.A.