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The Toronto Raptors will have to wait a little bit longer for playoff redemption after losing 100-90 to the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the first round.

Canada rolled over Japan and Ireland to set up a Pool C showdown with England later Saturday at the Canada Sevens women's rugby tournament at Westhills Stadium.

Canada opened with an easy 38-0 win over Japan on Saturday at the Canada Sevens women's rugby tournament at Westhills Stadium.

Canada pitched a shutout Saturday at the Canada Sevens women's rugby tournament, blanking all three opponents to win its pool in convincing fashion.

The Toronto Raptors will have to wait for the playoff redemption they're seeking. Paul George poured in 33 points to lift the Indiana Pacers to a 100-90 win over the Raptors in Game 1 of their opening-round playoff series on Saturday.

A woman hit by a foul ball in the seventh inning of the Chicago White Sox against the Tampa Bay Rays game is in stable condition Saturday at a hospital.

Canada lost all three of their matches in Singapore Sevens rugby, failing to advance to the Cup quarter-finals. With the losses, Canada will play Scotland in the Bowl quarter-finals on Saturday night, the bracket in which the lower-seeded teams enter to determine placing.

Get up to speed on today's most important news from the Stanley Cup playoffs, including injury updates on the Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist and Penguins' Marc-Andre Fleury.

Watch live coverage now of the men's rapid fire pistol final from the ISSF Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun World Cup in Rio de Janeiro.

Watch live coverage of the ISSF Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, beginning with women's 10m air rifle final at 11:30 a.m. ET

Filip Forsberg got credit for the tiebreaking goal with 9:35 to play, and the Nashville Predators opened their first-round playoff series with a 3-2 victory over the hometown Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.

Seconds after the Florida Panthers took a 3-1 lead over the New York Islanders on Friday night, they avoided a penalty when plastic rats came raining down on the ice from the crowd of 18,373 at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla.

Andrew Shaw stuffed home a rebound on a power play with 4:19 remaining, minutes after the Chicago Blackhawks won a coach's challenge to negate a goal, and the defending Stanley Cup champions pulled even with the St. Louis Blues in their first-round series with a 3-2 victory Friday night.

The bad blood that began brewing in Tampa’s 3-2 win in Game 1 came to a head near the end of Friday night’s game.

Rick Porcello pitched 6 1/3 solid innings and Travis Shaw hit a two-run double to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays Friday night.

Roberto Luongo made 41 saves for his first playoff win in five years, and the Florida Panthers evened their Eastern Conference quarter-final series by beating the visiting New York Islanders 3-1 on Friday night.

Tyler Johnson scored a pair of third-period goals Friday night, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series.

Canada won a silver and two bronze in synchro diving at a FINA World Series event in Windsor Friday.

In this instalment of Canada Rising, Cory Joseph talks about coming from a basketball family, the players who have inspired him, and what he thinks the future holds for the men's national team.

When Andrew Wiggins responded to a question about his status for Canada's men's basketball team this summer, his answer was non-committal. The Minnesota Timberwolves forward told a scrum of reports prior to his team's final game of the season that he "will cross that bridge when we get to it."