National Sports

TORONTO — Anthony Bennett and Joel Anthony headline the preliminary roster for Canada's pair of FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifying games this month.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leaf have recalled forward Nikita Soshnikov from the Toronto Marlies, ensuring the Russian remains with the organization at least for the time being.

ROME — The best players in the world go elsewhere. The best coaches in Italy emigrate. The stadiums around the country are falling apart.

PARIS — The French Ski Federation says an early investigation into the death of David Poisson suggests the safety netting failed and he hit a tree.

CALGARY — Investment firm AltaCorp Capital Inc. says its founder and CEO, Calgary oil and gas financier George Gosbee, died suddenly on Sunday.

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CALGARY — Patience is starting to pay off for rookie Mark Jankowski.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton was tired of the Carolina Panthers' defence getting all of the glory. Newton took it as a challenge when the defence vaulted to the league's No.

The only major question was whether it would be unanimous — and it was. Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger are baseball's Rookies of the Year, after their record-setting home run binges left no need for any dissenting opinions.

MILAN — Players from both teams slumped to the ground, the Swedes in exhausted ecstasy, the Italians in losers' agony. On a starry night in Milan, four-time champion Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in six decades.