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TORONTO — Jason Spezza remains optimistic.

TORONTO — Canada Soccer has called off this fall's national club championships due to the global pandemic. The Toyota National Championships were scheduled for Oct. 7-12 in Halifax (Challenge and Jubilee Trophy), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport says it supports freedom of expression for athletes at Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Canadian Kyle (The Monster) Nelson is off this weekend's UFC card in Las Vegas due to visa issues.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic announced Tuesday he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus after he played in a series of exhibition matches he organized in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the

Canadian college basketball player Andrew Nembhard has announced he is transferring to Gonzaga. The six-foot-five point guard from Aurora, Ont., announced last month that he intended to transfer from Florida.

TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows wasted little time announcing a replacement for Sam Malcolm. Two days after saying farewell to the New Zealand fly half-turned-fullback, the Major League Rugby team hailed the arrival of Argentine back Juan Cruz Gonzalez.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from the Credit One Bank Invitational tennis tournament.

BURNLEY, England — Police are looking into an incident in which a plane pulled a banner with the words “White Lives Matter Burnley” on it over Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium at the start of a Premier League match between the teams.

GENEVA — The FIFA ethics committee has 13 formal investigations ongoing, plus preliminary enquiries in 62 more cases, the soccer body's lawyers noted during a two-day online review that ended Tuesday.