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The Toronto Blue Jays' first foe in the playoffs is now official. Toronto is slated to take on the Seattle Mariners in the American League wild-card round. The series will lead off Friday at Rogers Centre.

The Seattle Mariners will be heading to Toronto to face the Blue Jays on Friday in the first game of the best-of-three wild-card playoff series.

Andrei Vasilevskiy doesn't pay attention to off-season NHL news. The signings, the trades, the big moves just aren't on the Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender's radar.

TORONTO — Sports betting in Ontario will see some definitive changes by month's end. On Tuesday, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario announced it has set Oct.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays were rained out Tuesday night and are scheduled to play a doubleheader Wednesday to end the regular season. There is little significance to these last two games.

VANCOUVER — Axel Schuster was never concerned about signing a long-term deal to remain CEO and sporting director of the Vancouver Whitecaps. He believed a contract extension would come as he continued planning for the club's future.

Lorenzo Mauldin IV has been a menace to CFL quarterbacks this season. The Ottawa Redblacks defensive lineman has amassed a CFL-high/club-record 14 sacks. He also leads the league in multi-sack games with five.

OTTAWA — Hockey Canada's board chairs, past and present, played defence amid parliamentary grilling over the hockey body's handling of alleged sexual assaults and how money was paid out in lawsuits.

TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows bolstered their backs Tuesday by signing Canadian international fly half Shane O’Leary for the 2023 Major League Rugby season.

LODZ, Poland — Alexa Gray and Kiera Van Ryk each scored 25 points as Canada topped Thailand 3-1 at the FIVB women's volleyball world championship on Tuesday. Canada, which opened the event with losses to defending champion Serbia and No.