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TORONTO — It's one of the few CFL accomplishments to have evaded Ricky Ray. The Toronto Argonauts' veteran quarterback was named the East Division's outstanding player nominee Thursday. Edmonton's Mike Reilly got the West Division nod.

NEW YORK — A celebration of life for former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay will be held next week in Florida at the spring-training home of the Philadelphia Phillies.

NEW YORK — Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott's half-season run from his six-game suspension ended Thursday when a federal appeals court refused to let him play while it considers his appeal.

WOLFVILLE, N.S. — Atlantic University Sport cancelled the Loney Bowl on Thursday due to a player eligibility issue and awarded the football conference championship to the Acadia Axemen.

AVON, Conn. — An Italian-American social club in Connecticut has set a record for the longest stretch of playing bocce.

BOSTON — Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez suffered substantial damage to parts of the brain that affect memory, judgment and behaviour from the most severe case of a degenerative disease linked to head blows ever found in someone so

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Kaillie Humphries went to bobsled school in Lake Placid. She apparently paid attention in class.

Toronto FC striker Jozy Altidore says he knows what happened in the BMO Field tunnel melee and the video backs him up.

MILAN — Canada's Denis Shapovalov dropped his final match at the Next Gen ATP Finals, losing in five sets to Russia's Andrey Rublev on Thursday.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders won't have history on their side as they chase a fifth Grey Cup title.