National Sports

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — When Canada's Alena Sharp was faced with challenges Friday at the Manulife LPGA Classic, she responded in quick fashion. A penalty stroke and double-bogey on the third hole? Answered with a birdie on the fourth.

MONTREAL — Canada soccer coach Octavio Zambrano has trimmed his roster to 23 for next Tuesday's friendly with Curacao in Montreal. Zambrano had brought 28 to camp, reducing the numbers after a trials match.

MONTREAL — The Canadian Grand Prix will run at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve at least until 2029. Mayor Denis Coderre and representatives of the federal and Quebec governments on Friday pledged $98.

MONTREAL — If Lance Stroll felt any jitters during his first laps around Circuit Gilles Villeneuve they didn't show on the 18-year-old Formula One rookie.

PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby put on a show in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final, but his brilliant night was overshadowed by some out-of-character behaviour.

NASHVILLE — The Nashville Predators' improbable run to the Stanley Cup Finals has blurred the dividing line between music and sports, a convergence that's expected to hit a crescendo in Tennessee's capital city this weekend.

Cassie Campbell-Pascall chuckled when she saw pictures on social media of the Canadian women's hockey team with their loaded shopping carts. "You laugh because you know what they're in for," the former captain said.

John Gibbons could have been a Blue Jay more than two decades before he first joined the organization, if he had made a better first impression.

PITTSBURGH — Matt Murray is up again, and Pekka Rinne is down. The Stanley Cup final has been a roller-coaster ride that way for the series' two starting goaltenders.

MONTREAL — A bare-bones Montreal Impact squad will attempt to do what no other side has done in more than a year in Major League Soccer — win in Kansas City.