National Sports

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have dealt pitcher Joel Payamps to the Kansas City Royals for cash considerations. Payamps posted a 2.70 ERA with 22 strikeouts in 30.0 innings this season.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps say they will return to Canada for a week of training at the end of July. The club says in a statement that it will return to Vancouver, B.C., from the U.S. on July 25 and resume training two days later.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have named Trevor Letowski as a new assistant coach. Letowski, 44, has been the head coach of the Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires since 2018, and previously worked with the Sarnia Sting.

CALGARY — Dave Cameron has been named head coach of Canada's national junior hockey team and will guide the squad through the 2022 world junior championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta.

TOKYO — Competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics started with a familiar sight — Canadian women's soccer captain Christine Sinclair burying a goal.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — There was history — and her story, too — in the broadcast booth at Tropicana Field on Tuesday night.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo ended one of the greatest NBA Finals ever with 50 points — and a championship Milwaukee waited 50 years to win again.

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions. Milwaukee beat the Phoenix Suns 105-98 on Tuesday to take the best-of-seven NBA Finals in six games. It is Milwaukee's first NBA championship since 1971.

TORONTO — Canada has lost two of its forwards at the Gold Cup, with Toronto FC feeling long-term pain as a result. TFC forward Ayo Akinola is out for the season after injuring the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in Canada's 1-0 loss to the U.

NEW YORK (AP) — Shark Week just finished its 33rd edition on Discovery, a television event so old that one advertising executive joked it could have its own children.