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Canada's Nick Taylor gets a Masters Mulligan after COVID-19 tainted first experience

Canada's Nick Taylor gets a Masters Mulligan after COVID-19 tainted first experience

Nick Taylor is happy to be getting a Mulligan on his first Masters appearance. The Abbotsford, B.C., native made his one and only appearance at Augusta National Golf Club in 2020.
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Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000

Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000

Monaco — Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris.
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Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime falls to Sonego at Monte Carlo Masters

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime falls to Sonego at Monte Carlo Masters

ROQUEBRUNE-CAP-MARTIN, France — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters tournament on Wednesday after dropping a second-round match 6-4, 7-5 to Lorenzo Sonego of Italy.
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Kuzmenko plays OT hero, Flames sink Sharks 3-2 to stop skid

Kuzmenko plays OT hero, Flames sink Sharks 3-2 to stop skid

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Andrei Kuzmenko scored a power-play goal 2:58 into overtime and the Calgary Flames came back to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Tuesday night.
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Prank war: Wild's Marc-André Fleury, Avalanche's Brandon Duhaime decorate each other's vehicles

Prank war: Wild's Marc-André Fleury, Avalanche's Brandon Duhaime decorate each other's vehicles

DENVER (AP) — Colorado forward Brandon Duhaime has put the brakes on pulling pranks after losing all four of his tires and seeing a garden planted on the hood of his car.
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Connor scores in OT, Jets beat playoff-bound Predators 4-3

Connor scores in OT, Jets beat playoff-bound Predators 4-3

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kyle Connor scored at 1:52 of overtime to give the Winnipeg Jets a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
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Slafkovsky nets hat trick, Canadiens hand Flyers eighth straight loss in 9-3 blowout

Slafkovsky nets hat trick, Canadiens hand Flyers eighth straight loss in 9-3 blowout

MONTREAL — Juraj Slafkovsky remembers scoring a hat trick where the only person who threw their hat on the ice was his dad. His experience Tuesday night was quite the opposite. “I've never scored a hat trick like this,” he said.
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Tyrese Haliburton's 30-point performance guides Pacers past Raptors 140-123

Tyrese Haliburton's 30-point performance guides Pacers past Raptors 140-123

TORONTO — At six-foot-three, Javon Freeman-Liberty is the perfect height to be a point guard but until he joined the Toronto Raptors, he never really played the position. That's quickly changing.
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Matthews scores 66th as Maple Leafs burn Devils 5-2

Matthews scores 66th as Maple Leafs burn Devils 5-2

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Auston Matthews knows that his teammates and most of the people in Toronto want him to score 70 goals this season and become only the ninth player in NHL history to accomplish the feat.
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Bichette homers, Bassitt makes quality start as Blue Jays top Mariners 5-3

Bichette homers, Bassitt makes quality start as Blue Jays top Mariners 5-3

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays picked up a few firsts in a 5-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night that brought them back to the .500 mark.
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