National Sports

OAKLAND, Calif. — Whenever Toronto coach Nick Nurse needed inspiration this season, he merely needed to look at his office wall. Hanging there is a big photo, a finish-line shot of the 2015 Travers Stakes at historic Saratoga Race Course.

STUTTGART, Germany — Felix Auger-Aliassime will face Milos Raonic in an all-Canadian semifinal at the Stuttgart Open. Auger-Aliassime, the No. 7 seed from Montreal, and Raonic, the No. 6 seed from Thornhill, Ont.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have signed defenceman Gustav Olofsson to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal will pay Olofsson US$700,000 in the NHL and $235,000 in the American Hockey League, with $300,000 in guaranteed salary.

The Toronto Raptors' historic championship-clinching win will go down in the Canadian television record books. Bell Media says a Canadian TV NBA record average audience of 7.

BRUSSELS — The Canadian women's basketball team lost 69-60 to China on Friday in the opener of a five-game exhibition series. Kayla Alexander of Milton, Ont., scored a game-high 17 points and added eight rebounds.

Alek Manoah used to go to bed each night thinking about how it would feel to hear his name called at the MLB draft. When he heard the Toronto Blue Jays pick him 11th overall nearly two weeks ago, the moment was just as he'd imagined it.

CALGARY — The dream never died for Michael Klukas. Born and raised in Calgary, he often imagined himself running out of McMahon Stadium's tunnel wearing a jersey with a galloping horse on it. "A million times," Klukas said Friday.

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GRENOBLE, France — The Canadian women's soccer team hopes to build on the Toronto Raptors' NBA championship triumph by making some history of its own at the World Cup.

VANCOUVER — B.C. Lions quarterback Mike Reilly says no one wants to see the kind of hits that injured Saskatchewan Roughriders pivot Zach Collaros on Thursday in Hamilton.