How Raptors’ cap, roster picture look after Kawhi Leonard acquisition

Keys’ first career homer gives Blue Jays boost in Canada Day win

Toronto Blue Jays rookie Sean Keys knew he struck the ball well. But when it sailed over the left-field fence, landing in Toronto’s bullpen for his first MLB career home…

Rays’ Junior Caminero homers in sixth straight game

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tampa Bay’s Junior Caminero has become the youngest player since at least 1900 to homer in six straight games. Caminero hit a 425-foot shot to left off Kansas…

Frederik Andersen agrees to one-year deal with Oilers

After starring during the Carolina Hurricanes’ Stanley Cup run, Frederik Andersen is headed to Edmonton. Andersen agreed to a one-year deal with the Oilers on Wednesday, Sportsnet confirms. The 36-year-old…

MLBPA proposes limiting assignments to minors, giving more pay and service time

NEW YORK — Baseball players proposed optional assignments to the minors be cut from a maximum of five per season to three and asked for more pay and major league…

Oilers’ Bowman does tidy work to move on from Nurse

EDMONTON — The Doctor is out. Darnell “Doc” Nurse never found the antidote to making people forget about the eight-year, $74 million deal that then-GM Ken Holland signed him to back…

Senators don’t add ‘shiny new toys’ in free agency

OTTAWA — The lights are out figuratively — and literally — on the Ottawa Senators’ free-agency foray. That message was reiterated before and after a power outage that interrupted GM…

Blue Jays rout Mets on Canada Day as Guerrero Jr. shows signs of progress

TORONTO – This current bout of back tightness for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. feels similar to the one that locked him a couple of weeks ago, although this time it’s a…

Canucks trading Marcus Pettersson to Rangers for first-round pick

The pick will be top-10 protected, Friedman added. Pettersson elected to waive his no-movement clause to facilitate the trade. The 30-year-old Swede spent a season-and-a-half in Vancouver after he was…

AP source: Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce to host wedding Friday at Madison Square Garden

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will have their wedding at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the security plans.…

Zach Werenski sticking with Blue Jackets, issues statement with GM

In a joint statement issued by Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell and Werenski himself on Wednesday, the reigning Norris Trophy winner made it known that he would be…

Nationals’ Cavalli apologizes for telling Red Sox’s Contreras to ‘sit down, boy’

BOSTON — Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli apologized Wednesday for shouting “sit down, boy!” at Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras while instigating a bench-clearing scrum a night earlier. “I’m extremely…