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Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista will have season-ending surgery to stabilize a tendon in his left wrist.

That Andy Roddick's last match as a twentysomething would not be his last match at the 2012 U.S. Open was hardly in doubt Tuesday, especially whenever he was launching that intimidating, tough-tohandle serve of his.

The Canadian women's sevens rugby team is hot. Its current world No. 2 ranking indicates the Langford-based program will likely be a factor when the sport makes its Olympic debut in the 2016 Rio Summer Games. But there's another reason.

With the possibility of another lockout beginning to loom large, the NHL took what commissioner Gary Bettman termed a "significant" and "meaningful" step in negotiations on Tuesday.

Doreen Rice and Gina Olsen from Vancouver Island will be travelling to Turin, Italy, next summer for the World Masters Games as part of the North American Native Sisters softball team.

Dante Hahn had a goal and an assist to pace the Victoria Grizzlies to a 4-1 win over the Nanaimo Clippers in B.C. Hockey League pre-season play in Sooke on Tuesday night.

Forwards were free-agent invitees to NHL rookie camps

When Mariano talks, Rafael Soriano listens. The career saves leader was watching when his fill-in gave up a three-run homer in the ninth inning of the Yankees' extra-inning loss Monday night and had some thoughts.

His body was aching a day later, but a sweep of the three City of Victoria Island Open tennis titles helped take the edge off for Wesley Bertsch.

Both the Canadian men's and women's rugby sevens teams made it their goal to qualify for the 2013 World Cup next June in Moscow. Both succeeded Sunday.