National Sports

EDMONTON — Canada defenceman Braden Schneider will miss Sunday's game against Slovakia at the world junior hockey championship after being handed a one-game suspension by the IIHF.

MONTREAL — Canadian pitcher Derek Aucoin, who played two games for the Montreal Expos in 1996, died of brain cancer on Saturday night, his family said. He was 50.

HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-signed running backs Sean Thomas Erlington and Don Jackson on Sunday. Erlington, 28, has played 32 regular-season games with the Ticats over three seasons.

With tennis, like so much of the world, shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Naomi Osaka found herself with time to read and think. And while she won the U.S.

TORONTO — Every weekend, Hakim Mohamed and his nine-year-old twin daughters Amira and Anisa run. They head from their Regent Park house in downtown Toronto toward Riverdale Park. They'll run for an hour, in all kinds of weather.

SAN ANTONIO — Kyle Lowry can't remember the last time he was 0-2 to start the season.

EDMONTON — Sweden extended its win streak to 53 games in the preliminary round of the world junior hockey championship with a 7-1 win over the Czech Republic in the tournament opener for both teams on Saturday.

EDMONTON — Canada began shedding game rust with a 16-2 win over beleaguered Germany at the world junior men's hockey championship Saturday.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators acquired centre Derek Stepan from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for a second-round draft pick in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. Stepan, 30, scored 10 goals and 28 points in 70 games last season with the Coyotes.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hit a tiebreaking jumper with 1.