National Sports

NETANYA, Israel — Canada and the United States will meet in the final of the world field lacrosse championship once again.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks are looking for a big game on Friday to put last week's embarrassing loss at TD Place Stadium behind them, and they have one key factor going in their favour. They are not facing the Calgary Stampeders.

Five-time Olympian and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Jayna Hefford has been appointed interim commissioner of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. Hefford will officially assume the role on Aug.

MOSCOW — Olympic figure skating medallist Denis Ten was killed Thursday, and prosecutors in Kazakhstan said they were treating the case as murder.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Bryan Crawford is Golf Canada’s new tournament director for the RBC Canadian Open.

LOS ANGELES — More than 140 survivors of sexual abuse by a former team doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University joined hands on stage to be honoured with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPYs.

GSTAAD, Switzerland — A resilient Eugenie Bouchard converted on her seventh match-point opportunity in a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (7) win over eighth-seed Viktorija Golubic in second-round action Thursday at the Swiss Open tennis tournament.

Canada's rugby teams will be met with a daunting challenge each time they take the field at the Sevens World Cup in San Francisco this weekend. Lose one game and they're done.

SURREY, B.C. — A lot has happened in the 10 years since softball was last an Olympic sport. Danielle Lawrie graduated university, got married, had two daughters and retired from playing the game she loves.

Ottawa police are investigating a fire that delayed Wednesday night's Canadian Championship semifinal matchup between Toronto FC and the host Fury at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa.