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Vince Carter's highlight-reel dunks for the Toronto Raptors in the early 2000s inspired a generation of Canadian basketball players.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Major League Baseball says robot home plate umpires are unlikely for 2025. 鈥淲e still have some technical issues,鈥� baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday at a news conference following an owners meeting.

PRAGUE 鈥� Any anxiety sa国际传媒 felt entering the elimination round of the world hockey championship was put to rest quickly in a 6-3 win over Slovakia in quarterfinal action Thursday.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) 鈥� The first sign this wasn't a Gabriel Landeskog retirement announcement: The Colorado captain showed up wearing an Avalanche hat, shirt and shorts as if he'd just gone through a workout.

ANTALYA 鈥� sa国际传媒 fell 3-1 to top-ranked Poland on Thursday in men's Volleyball Nations League action. sa国际传媒 started strong and took the first set 25-18 before Poland rebounded and took the next three 25-20, 25-23 and 25-21.

DALLAS 鈥� Kris Knoblauch thought he spied a weakness. The head coach of the Ontario Hockey League's Erie Otters was looking for an edge against the rival London Knights during the 2015-16 season.

TORONTO 鈥� The arrival of a professional women's basketball team to the Toronto sports landscape creates new opportunities to capitalize on long pent-up demand from local fans, say experts who study the business of sports.

sa国际传媒 coach Bev Priestman is starting to get some of her injured talent back ahead of the Paris Olympics. And while that's good news, it also adds to the degree of difficulty in choosing her Olympic roster ahead of the July 3 deadline.

TORONTO 鈥� Toronto's Natalie Spooner, Montreal's Marie-Philip Poulin and New York's Alex Carpenter are the Billie Jean King MVP award finalists for the Professional Women's Hockey League's inaugural season.

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. 鈥� University of Montreal quarterback Jonathan Senecal was among the finalists announced Thursday for the Canadian university sport athletes of the year awards.