National Sports

In an effort to avoid distraction, reigning national men's curling champion Brad Gushue was hoping to keep his team's roster developments in-house until after the upcoming world championship.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers are certainly not having troubling finding the back of the net at the moment.

TORONTO — It was a day of milestones for Toronto FC — the 50th goal for Jonathan Osorio in all competitions for the club and the 25th for Alejandro Pozuelo. But more importantly Saturday's 2-1 decision over D.C. United was a first win of the season.

PARIS (AP) — The French rugby renaissance has reached the next stage: Les Tricolores are the kings of Europe once again. France won the Six Nations for the first time in 12 years after beating England 25-13 to complete the Grand Slam on Saturday.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr., belted a monster solo shot in Toronto's 3-2 pre-season loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Canada's Damian Warner won heptathlon gold on Saturday at the world athletics indoor championships. His time of two minutes 39.56 seconds in the 1,000 metres gave him an overall total of 6,489 points.

MEGÈVE, France — Canadian freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury capped his World Cup season in style Saturday by winning gold in the men's dual moguls and securing top spot in the discipline's rankings. Kingsbury, from Deux-Montagnes, Que.

ZURICH — The International Ice Hockey Federation has rescheduled the 2022 world junior championship for mid-August in Edmonton.

SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — Ferrari's Charles Leclerc stunned Formula One champion Max Verstappen by taking a brilliant pole position Saturday for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Verstappen was .

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Paolo Garbisi booted the match-clinching conversion before throwing himself to the ground and bursting into tears. After seven humiliating years, Italy finally won a Six Nations match.