National Sports

TORONTO — A look at winger Tyrese Spicer, Toronto FC's first overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft: Age: 23. Home: Trincity, Trinidad. College: Attended Lipscomb University in Nashville, scoring 29 goals and adding 18 assists in 57 games.

TORONTO — Tyrese Spicer remembers the tough times growing up in Trinidad. "Not having enough money to buy sneakers, buy cleats, to go to school. Not having enough money to eat," he recalled.

Brad Marchand doesn't have to say a word when a new player walks into the Boston Bruins' locker room. The standard and expectation was set long ago.

LONDON (AP) — A new monitoring service will help protect tennis players from online abuse and threats, the International Tennis Federation and other governing bodies said Wednesday. In their joint announcement, ITF, U.S.

Macklin Celebrini was contemplating his next hockey stop. The teenage star poised to join the U.S. college hockey ranks for the 2023-24 season had plenty of NCAA schools pining for his services back in June 2022.

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation refused Major League Soccer's attempt to pull its top rosters from next year's U.S. Open Cup, the sport's oldest competition in the nation. While MLS announced in a statement at 6 p.m.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers is being activated from the injured reserve list on Wednesday, but the quarterback will not play again this season for the New York Jets.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Trevor Lawrence remained in the NFL's concussion protocol Wednesday, leaving the Jacksonville Jaguars preparing to play without their star quarterback for the first time in three seasons.

Canada threw itself onto the track and field map — quite literally — with some history-making performances at the 2023 world athletics championships.

BOSTON (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored his second goal of the game at 2:54 of overtime to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 4-3 National Hockey League win over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.