National Sports

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Colin Meads, a famously tough All Blacks lock hailed New Zealand's greatest rugby player of the twentieth century, has died after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 81.

MONTREAL — Samuel Girard and Kim Boutin will compete at the 2018 Olympics Games in Pyeongchang after qualifying for the provisional Canadian short-track team on Saturday. Girard, from Ferland-et-Boilleau, Que.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays acquired right-handed pitcher Tom Koehler and cash from the Miami Marlins on Saturday night for minor league pitcher Osman Gutierrez. Koehler, 31, is 1-5 this season with a 7.

TORONTO — Ricky Ray showed Saturday just how valuable he is to the Toronto Argonauts.

CHICAGO — Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry showcased his vocal skills Saturday during the Toronto Blue Jays game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.

CHICAGO — A day after striking out four times, rookie Ian Happ struck back.

TORONTO — Quentin Laulu-Togaga'e scored two tries in a five-minute span in the second half as the Toronto Wolfpack downed the Newcastle Thunder 50-0 on Saturday in the fourth round of Kingstone Press League 1's Super 8s playoffs.

TORONTO — Midfielders Atiba Hutchinson and Will Johnson, both former national players of the year, have been named to Canada's men's soccer team ahead of a friendly with Jamaica on Sept. 2. Hutchinson, from Brampton, Ont.

MONTREAL — Valerie Maltais of Saguenay, Que., withdrew from Canada's 2018 short-track speedskating team Olympic selection competition on Saturday due to a concussion.

NEW YORK — A former New York City police officer, whose claims of police corruption in the 1970s were chronicled in an Al Pacino movie, joined dozens of current and former officers Saturday at a rally in support of getting quarterback Colin Kaepernic