National Sports

TULSA, Okla., (AP) — Canada's Mike Weir opened a four-stroke lead Friday in the Senior PGA Championship with a 5-under 65 on a tough Southern Hills layout that baffled most of the players.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — Danielle Kang had Lizette Salas over to the house Thursday night to watch “Friends: The Reunion,” then sent her packing Friday in the LPGA Match Play.

MONTREAL — Cole Caufield has played in front of exactly zero fans in his young NHL career. A packed-to-the-rafters Bell Centre would have exploded when the Canadiens rookie sniper buried his first NHL goal in overtime earlier this month.

GLENVIEW, Ill. — Two Canadian golfers sit in the top 10 at the halfway mark of the Korn Ferry Tour's Evans Scholars Invitational. Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C.

CALGARY — Jessie Eldridge had a goal and an assist as Montreal's Team Bauer beat Calgary's Team Scotiabank 4-3 at the Secret Dream Gap Tour women's hockey tournament Friday.

Toronto FC needs a win, not another injury or self-inflicted wound.

RIGA, Latvia — Canada captain Adam Henrique brought the offence again in a 4-2 win over Kazakhstan on Friday at the world hockey championship.

RIMINI, Italy — The Canadian men's volleyball team lost 3-0 (25-17, 26-24, 25-20) to the U.S. in its opening game at the 2021 Nations League.on Friday.

Born on Vancouver Island and raised in Fiji, the Cook Islands and New Zealand, Josh Larsen now calls suburban Boston home as a member of the New England Free Jacks.

MONTREAL — CF Montreal has exercised its option on coach Wilfried Nancy’s contract for the 2022 season. Nancy was named coach of the MLS team in March following the departure of Thierry Henry.