National Sports

NEW ORLEANS — A big comeback. A blown call. And, finally, a booming kick that sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl.

LA QUINTA, Calif. — Adam Long bounced around golf's backwoods for years, winning only a lone Hooters Tour event. Now, he's headed to the Masters as a PGA Tour winner.

VANCOUVER — Elias Pettersson tallied two points in his return to the lineup for the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday, but the star rookie was more concerned his mistakes. "I felt I lost the puck a few times, made some bad decisions, some turnovers.

MONTMARTRE, Sask. — A kids' hockey tournament in Saskatchewan has been cancelled after some players developed headaches and officials suspected they may have been suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Canada has been tapped to host an Olympic softball qualifying event this summer ahead of the 2020 Games in Tokyo, the World Baseball Softball Confederation announced Sunday.

TORONTO — Natalie Spooner dreams of a day when women's professional hockey players won't have to rush home from work to make it to practice.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea outlasted the cold and wind to close with a 1-under 70 and win the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions by two shots Sunday in the LPGA Tour season opener.

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota high school where fans displayed a President Donald Trump re-election flag has pulled out of a basketball invitational hosted by a Minneapolis school on Martin Luther King Jr.

With Tottenham's attacking options getting increasingly thin amid a striker crisis, Mauricio Pochettino is going to need goals from unlikely sources to keep alive his team's hopes of silverware this season.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Patrick Chan texted Mike Slipchuk during the men's free program at the Canadian figure skating championships on Saturday night. Canada's three-time world champion wanted Slipchuk to pass along a message to young Stephen Gogolev.