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VANCOUVER — It was late June and the season was already trending in the wrong direction for the Vancouver Whitecaps. The team was playing its "home games" in Sandy, Utah, due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Calgary's Divya Saxena has been named MVP at the ICC Women’s 2021 T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier in Mexico. Saxena scored 180 runs in six innings and finished not out in three of them.

TORONTO — The Grey Cup returns in 2021, but attending the contest won't come cheaply. Tickets to the game, which will be held Dec. 12 at Tim Hortons Field, went on sale Tuesday to the general public.

TORONTO — Fitness was in fashion Tuesday as Team Canada took a fresh step forward with new outfitter Lululemon unveiling the 2022 kit for the country's Olympic and Paralympic teams in Beijing.

Canada's Olympic attire tends to consist of predictably patriotic fare: variations on the same red-and-white, Maple Leaf-adorned uniforms we see year after year.

Jim Lawson is back in the CFL. Multiple sources have told The Canadian Press that Lawson, who stepped down as CFL board chairman in 2019, has joined the Hamilton Sports Group as an executive committee member.

Canadian Julia (The Jewel) Budd makes her Professional Fighters League debut on Wednesday when she takes on American Kaitlin (The Striking Viking) Young on the promotion's high-profile final card of the season. The 38-year-old from Port Moody, B.C.

TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts are now McLeod Bethel-Thompson's team.

MONTREAL — After a heartbreaking tie in Toronto on Saturday, CF Montréal's players are no doubt concerned about their team's poor position in Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference.

Toronto FC has gone 5-9-6 since first-year coach Chris Armas was fired July 4 after a disastrous 7-1 loss to D.C. United. And while there have been improvements, the man who succeeded Armas is candid about where the 6-17-8 team is today.