National Sports

HOUSTON (AP) — Fred VanVleet scored 32 points, Gary Trent Jr. added 29 and the Toronto Raptors snapped a two-game skid with a 117-111 win over the Houston Rockets on Friday night.

QUEBEC — Nathan Gaucher scored two goals and James Malatesta had a goal and two assists as the Québec Remparts defeated the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada 5-2 on Friday. Vsevolod Komarov and Pier-Olivier Roy added the others for Québec (39-6-1-2).

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Kurt Kitayama is starting to feel more comfortable each time he gets in contention on the PGA Tour, and the Californian can only hope that's the case going into the weekend at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

MONTREAL — After four long weeks, CF Montreal concluded the first leg of training camp with a 6-1 win over the Première ligue de soccer du Québec’s all-star team in a friendly match on Friday.

TORONTO — The CFL has handed Hamilton Tiger-Cats offensive lineman Colin Kelly a two-game suspension for violating the league's drug policy.

A pair of CFL all-stars have re-signed with their teams. Wide receiver Kurleigh Gittens Jr. inked a three-year deal with the Toronto Argonauts on Friday and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-signed returner Janarion Grant to a one-year extension.

SUNRISE, Fla. — Alex Ovechkin predicts he will sit down with Sidney Crosby to look back on their careers one day. His forever rival agrees.

With three members of Team Lawes trying to balance pregnancy with curling at times this season, Selena Njegovan was pleased her squad received an exemption to add an out-of-province replacement player for the national championship.

VANCOUVER — Lopsided losses. A heavily critiqued coaching change. Jerseys on the ice.

MOBILE, Ala. — Canadian Chase Brown made quite an impression this week at the Senior Bowl.