{allcanada} Sanoja, Stowers lead as Marlins beat Yesavage, Blue Jays

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TORONTO (AP) — Janson Junk pitched five innings and won for the first time since April 28, Kyle Stowers and Javier Sanoja each had two doubles and two RBIs, and the Miami Marlins extended their winning streak to four games by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2 on Monday night.

Canadian outfielder Owen Caissie went 2 for 4 and drove in a pair as Miami improved to 14-5 all-time at Rogers Centre.

Junk (3-5) allowed one run and eight hits, all singles. He walked none and struck out three.

Ernie Clement hit a solo home run for Toronto, but the Blue Jays lost their second straight after winning the previous four.

Toronto’s Trey Yesavage allowed five hits and a career-high five runs in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. The rookie right-hander had allowed just three total earned runs in five previous starts this season.

Yesavage (2-2) walked two and struck out six. All five hits off Yesavage were doubles.

Sanoja was retired in his first at-bat after Yesavage twice bobbled his comebacker, eventually using his glove to shovel the ball to first baseman Lenyn Sosa.

Playing under open skies at home for the first time this season, the Blue Jays fell behind in the first inning on Otto Lopez's sacrifice fly.

Sanoja and Caissie made it 2-0 with back-to-back doubles in the fifth, but the Blue Jays cut the deficit in half on Yohendrick Piñango’s RBI single in the bottom half.

Stowers dropped a two-out RBI double into shallow left in front of a charging Piñango in the sixth. After Jakob Marsee walked, Sanjoa added a two-run hit that sailed over the rookie outfielder’s head.

Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did not play. Guerrero left Sunday’s loss to Pittsburgh after being hit on his right elbow by a pitch.

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RHP Sandy Alcantara (3-3, 4.00 ERA) is expected to start for the Marlins on Tuesday. RHP Braydon Fisher (2-1, 2.73) is scheduled to open for Toronto.

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{allcanada} Canada Soccer signs head coach Marsch to four-year extension through 2030 World Cup

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Canada Soccer has signed Jesse Marsch to an extension that will see him serve as head coach of the national men’s soccer team through the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

The organization announced the move Monday as Marsch and the Canadian squad gathered in Charlotte, N.C., for a pre-World Cup training camp.

“Jesse’s contribution as our men’s national team coach has been exceptional, both on and off the field,” Canada Soccer CEO Kevin Blue said in a statement. “He’s instilled a clear identity and raised the competitive bar for our team.”

The 53-year-old American was named head coach of the national team in 2024 and the country has since gone 12-5-12, scoring 37 goals and conceding 23 across his 29 games in charge.

He guided Canada to the semifinals at the 2024 Copa America and helped it climb to a record 26th place in FIFA’s global rankings in September 2025.

Now he’s looking to make history this summer as the Canadians look to earn their first-ever World Cup win. The quest begins on June 12 when the country hosts Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto.

The current crop of Canadian players is special, Marsch said in Charlotte on Monday.

“It’s a unique group, in terms of their desire to play with each other, for each other, to play for the national team, to make the country proud,” said the former U.S. international.

“They love each other. They know this is their team. And I say this a lot — I’m not Canadian. I’m a foreigner trying to help them be at their best. But this is their national team. This is their moment for their country. And I’m just trying to do everything I can to give them the opportunity to show how great they are.”

Canada is slotted into Group B at this summer’s World Cup alongside Bosnia, Qatar and Switzerland.

The expanded 48-team tournament is set to be played in 16 cities across Canada, the United States and Mexico between June 11 and July 19.

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{allcanada} Canada’s Fernandez loses to Parks in first round of Roland-Garros

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PARIS — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez was bounced from the French Open after a 6-4, 6-4 first-round loss to Alycia Parks of the United States on Monday.

Fernandez, who was seeded 24th in the women’s draw at Roland Garros, was broken four times on nine chances and hit into seven double-faults.

Parks struggled with accuracy, with just 49.2 per cent of her first serves landing inbounds. She made up for that by winning 60 per cent of her second-serve points.

The 23-year-old Fernandez, from Laval, Que., was eliminated in the first round of the clay-court Grand Slam for a second straight year. Her best result at Roland Garros was a run to the quarterfinals in 2022.

Parks beat Fernandez for the second time at a Grand Slam, also winning in the second round of the 2024 Australian Open. Fernandez defeated Parks in their other meeting in the second round of the 2025 Miami Open.

The remaining Canadians in the French Open singles draws were scheduled to play their opening matches Tuesday. Men’s fourth seed Félix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal was set to face Germany’s Daniel Altmaier; Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., was paired with Portugal’s Jaime Faria; and women’s ninth seed Victoria Mboko of Burlington, Ont., was matched up with Czechia’s Nikola Bartunkova.


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{allcanada} Pronger confirms he interviewed for top Maple Leafs job

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Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Chris Pronger interviewed for the Toronto Maple Leafs’ president of hockey operations role, he confirmed on TSN 1050’s OverDrive on Monday.

Pronger, 51, was one of a number of people that MLSE president and CEO Keith Pelly and the search firm headed up by Neil Glasberg spoke to before the team hired John Chayka as general manager and Mats Sundin as senior executive advisor of hockey operations.

“I met with Glasberg and Pelly for a couple of hours,” said Pronger. “I just had a good, frank conversation about the team, about the direction, and my thoughts on what they needed both in the front office and on the ice with respect to the players.

“I got good feedback on my conversation with them, but they were going in a different direction.”

Pronger was interviewing for a job to head up a Maple Leafs team that finished last in the Atlantic Division with a 32-36-14 record and landed the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery.

The team had previously made the playoffs for nine straight seasons, but only managed to advance to the second round twice during that span.

He previously stated that he did not interview for the Maple Leafs’ general manager role when talking to TSN 1050’s First Up on April 22.

“There’s a lot of rumours out there. I’m in the media like you guys. I’m interested to see how this all plays out too,” he said. “There’s some vicious rumours out there that said I interviewed for the GM job. I did not interview for that role.”

Pronger is working in the hockey media right now and recently released a book on his playing career. He did say that he is open to listening to new opportunities but it has to be the right situation in order for him to take it on.

“I’m excited for this next chapter. As I’ve said numerous times, I’m open to having a conversation and seeing what an opportunity might look like,” Pronger said in April. “Whether it’s a fit for me, whether it’s a fit for the other side. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t, sometimes the timing is not right and sometimes the opportunity doesn’t fit what you’re looking for at any given time.”

Pronger scored 157 goals and tallied 541 assists over 1,167 career games in the NHL with the Hartford Whalers, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks and Philadelphia Flyers.

The 6-foot-6, left-shot defenceman won a Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007 and captured Olympic gold with Team Canada in 2002 and 2010. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.

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