Canada nets FIBA win over Nicaragua
If you don't count the slow start, Team Canada quickly assembled its second win in as many games at the FIBA Americup 2025 qualifiers. Led by power forward Jackson Rowe's 19 points, Canada crushed Nicaragua 88-46 to improve to 2-0 in Group C. Canada had beaten Nicaragua 96-51 in their first meeting on Friday.
Canada got off to a shaky start and called a timeout trailing 10-4. The quick huddle appeared to calm the Canadians down as they cruised to victory after that.
Aaron Best added 16 points for Canada, which led 25-15 after the first quarter and 42-26 at halftime.
Pool C consists of Canada, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Mexico. Each team will play each opponent in their group twice under a “home and away” format during three windows, which will take place in February and November 2024 and then in February 2025.
The FIBA Americup 2025 will be held in Nicaragua from Aug. 23-31, 2025.
Accomplished amateur and professional player
Lisa Meldrum has been selected to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
The 41-year-old from Montreal will be inducted into the player category in a ceremony on May 28.
She will become the hall of fame's 86th member.
Meldrum, a Class A member of the PGA of Canada, got her start in golf as a 10-year-old at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, where she now works as its head teaching professional.
Her induction will be part of the 2024 RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
Shohei Ohtani's home in the
Los Angeles Dodgers' batting order will be the No. 2 spot — at least for now. The two-way Japanese star was sandwiched between Mookie Betts, who is the leadoff hitter, and Freddie Freeman when he made his first spring start as DH on Tuesday.
Manager Dave Roberts said all three stars were receptive to the Betts-ohtani-freeman lineup construction. However, he added Ohtani hitting second wasn't “set in stone” just yet.
It's something Roberts said he wants to try for a while during spring training.
“I feel that having Shohei hitting in front of Freddie gives Shohei a lot of protection,” Roberts said.
An Olympic track coach who
tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years on Tuesday.
Yury Moisevich's actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be “a clear affront to the athlete's dignity and an abuse of ... power,” track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said.
He also was found guilty of “providing false or inaccurate information in the course of events leading up to the athlete's departure from the Olympic Village” in August 2021.
The 63-year-old coach is banned from working in track and field until February 2029.