National Sports

MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact exercised contract options on designated players Ignacio Piatti and Saphir Taider and nine others Thursday.

QUEBEC — Montreal Carabins head coach Danny Maciocia admits the Calgary Dinos offence has affected his sleep this week.

TORONTO — Mike Babcock became the fourth straight Toronto Maple Leafs head coach to lose his job with the team on the road when he was fired Wednesday.

EDMONTON — FC Edmonton head coach Jeff Paulus is adding the role of interim general manager with the Canadian Premier League team. Former GM Jay Ball left the club Nov. 8 to pursue other opportunities.

Dara Howell has rediscovered her drive and passion for freestyle skiing. It took tearing her ACL and a year of painful rehab to get there.

The Canadian Football League has extended its exclusive media rights deal with TSN and RDS ahead of this Sunday's 107th Grey Cup.

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is suing a home remodeling contractor he says failed to perform the work for which he was hired.

CALGARY — The Vanier Cup will become part of Grey Cup again if the CFL commissioner gets his way. Incorporating the Canadian university football championship into Grey Cup week is high on Randy Ambrosie's to-do list.

Wednesday's Games NHL Ottawa 2 Montreal 1 (OT) N.Y.

MONTREAL — Jean-Gabriel Pageau is showing no signs of slowing down.