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• Vaval boosts Blue Bombers in 40-31 win over Argonauts

  02-08-2025 05:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Rookie Trey Vaval dazzled a sold-out crowd of Blue Bombers fans when he returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown and followed up with a 97-yard punt return for a major that helped Winnipeg snap a three-game losing streak with a 40-31 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday.
  It was the first and second TDs of the CFL season for the defensive back from Montana.
  Chris Streveler started for Winnipeg (4-3) after quarterback Zach Collaros left last week’s 31-17 loss in T
  
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• Tough debut for Jays newcomers, but Schneider points to home runs as bigger issue

  02-08-2025 05:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The noise the Toronto Blue Jays made before Thursday’s trade deadline was silenced in their first game with three of their four newbies in the lineup.
  With four homers and a crafty three-hitter from veteran Michael Wacha (5-9), the Kansas City Royals (55-55) hammered Toronto 9-3 in Friday’s opening game of their three-game series.
  Seranthony Dominguez did not pitch in his new home after his two scoreless relief innings against his old team, the Baltimore Orioles, earl
  
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• Hurricane Gil forms in the eastern Pacific but is not forecast to threaten land

  02-08-2025 05:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Gil strengthened into a hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday but was not expected to threaten land, forecasters said.
  The Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm was about 1,080 miles (1,740 kilometers) west-southwest of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
  Gil had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 20 mph (31 kph).
  No coastal watches or warnings were in effect. The storm was expec
  
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• Spurs captain Son Heung-min to leave English Premier League club

  02-08-2025 05:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Captain Son Heung-min announced on Saturday that he will be leaving Tottenham Hotspur.
  At a media conference in Seoul, Son said his decision to leave the English Premier League club was ’the most difficult” of his career and said the club was supporting him as he looks to move on to another club.
  Spurs will face Newcastle United in a preseason friendly on Sunday in Seoul in what could the final match of Son’s time at Spurs.
  “Before we start
  
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• Witt, Wacha push Royals to 9-3 win over Blue Jays

  02-08-2025 04:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Bobby Witt Jr. belted a three-run homer and veteran starter Michael Wacha pitched a three-hitter to lift the Kansas City Royals to a 9-3 win in the opener of a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday.
  Witt’s blow came off Toronto starter Kevin Gausman (7-8) and was the second of four homers for the visitors as the Royals (55-55) won their third straight.
  The Blue Jays (64-47) were without George Springer for a fourth straight game. He was placed on the sev
  
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• Canadian women defeat U.S. 42-10 in final home game before Rugby World Cup

  02-08-2025 03:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to dispatch the United States 42-10 Friday in its final home game before heading to Europe for the Rugby World Cup later this month.
  The second-ranked Canadian women extended their winning streak against the 10th-ranked U.S. to 11 straight games, but it took time to subdue a determined American side in a physical, frenetic contest before an announced crowd of 11,453 at TD Place Stadium.
  Canada has one more World Cup tune-up on
  
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• Vancouver’s Dragon Boat Festival pushed out by FIFA World Cup

  02-08-2025 02:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Organizers of the annual Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver say the event will be cancelled next year to make way for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.Dominic Lai, the operations director with Dragon Boat BC, says the city declined to provide permits for 2026 edition of the festival.
  Lai says they have been told Vancouver’s host city agreement for World Cup prohibits cultural and sporting events during a certain time frame and also restricts events within a certain
  
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• Leduc, Asemota claim 100-metre Canadian championship track titles

  02-08-2025 02:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Sprinter Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., won the senior women’s 100-metres championship on Friday night, clocking 11.06 to top the eight-runner final at the Canadian track and field championships in Ottawa.
  The 26-year-old Leduc, who holds the Canadian records in the 100-metres (10.95) and 200 metres (22.36) — both set in 2024 — finished just ahead of Olympian Sade McCreath (11.09) of Ajax, Ont., and Jacqueline Madogo (11.21) of Ottawa, who became the 200-metres
  
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• Bieber excited to join Jays, return to mound after surgery

  02-08-2025 02:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Shane Bieber hopes to be a popular pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays down the stretch, but realizes that in his new home, he’ll be the second most famous Bieber after Canadian pop icon Justin Bieber.
  The Blue Jays’ Bieber once wore a jersey with “Not Justin” on the back during a players’ weekend in 2019, which prompted Canada’s Bieber to don a “Not Shane Bieber” shirt a few weeks later.
  “Well, it turns out I’m probably t
  
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• Rising Canadian star Victoria Mboko set for marquee match against Coco Gauff at NBO

  02-08-2025 01:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Even at four years old, Victoria Mboko hated the taste of defeat.
  Pierre Lamarche remembers the little ball of energy waiting eagerly for her turn while her older sister, Gracia, exchanged rallies with him at his tennis academy in Burlington, Ont.
  “When we had to pick up the balls, Vicky would take a racket and jump on the baseline,” Lamarche said. “Right away, you saw, ‘Wow, OK.’
  “I just remember the way she was so intense and she just hated
  
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