National Sports

TORONTO — Five Western Hockey League teams — including four Canadian clubs — are vying to host the Memorial Cup in 2026.

HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed American cornerback Jamal Peters to a one-year contract extension Monday. The deal keeps Peters with the CFL club through the 2025 season.

MONTREAL — Montreal's Félix Auger-Aliassime will lead the Canadian team into the Davis Cup Final 8, with Frank Dancevic returning as captain. Auger-Aliassime will once again be joined by Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont.

Herb Page was going about his business on a Tuesday morning when Mackenzie Hughes, one of his former star players on Kent State University's men's golf team, reached out to him on FaceTime.

Bianca Andreescu knows a significant part of her job takes place away from the tennis court, in moments she may not even have a racket in her hand.

Sunday's Scoreboard MLB American League Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 3 Detroit 4 Baltimore 3 N.Y. Yankees 7 Oakland 4 L.A. Angels 9 Houston 8 Texas 6 Seattle 5 Boston 8 Minnesota 1, game 1 Boston 9 Minnesota 3, game 2 National League N.Y.

SEATTLE — The Calgary Flames and Seattle Kraken both finished with 81 points last year in the Western Conference and missed the NHL playoffs by 17 points.

TORONTO — The Ottawa Senators almost let things slip away. With the Toronto Maple Leafs clawing back late in Sunday’s NHL pre-season contest, Ottawa needed some overtime heroics to pull out a 6-5 victory over the hosts.

EDMONTON — Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch was happy with his team’s start to exhibition play, especially considering not a single player in his lineup on Sunday played with the club during its lengthy recent playoff run.

OWEN SOUND, Ont. — Rafik Varosyan and Taos Jordan scored third-period goals three minutes apart to lift the Owen Sound Attack to a 3-2 Ontario Hockey League victory over the visiting North Bay Battalion on Sunday.