National Sports

REGINA — Mario Alford of the Saskatchewan Roughriders was named the CFL’s top special-teams player Thursday. The announcement came during the CFL awards banquet, with voting conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and nine league coaches.

REGINA — Receiver Dalton Schoen of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is the CFL's top rookie. Schoen received the honour Thursday night at the CFL awards banquet.

REGINA — Defensive end Lorenzo Mauldin IV of the Ottawa Redblacks was named the CFL's top defensive player Thursday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees won the American League MVP award on Thursday night, and St. Louis Cardinals slugger Paul Goldschmidt took the NL prize.

TURIN, Italy — Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime dropped a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 6-2 decision to American Taylor Fritz on Thursday at the ATP Finals.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps picked up Canadian defender Karifa Yao in Major League Soccer's re-entry draft on Thursday.

TSN and CTV won't be sticking to soccer for their upcoming coverage of the World Cup in Qatar.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko began her quest for the largest prize in women's golf history by hitting a tree and making bogey on a par 5. The rest of Thursday in the CME Group Tour Championship couldn't have gone better.

SAN ANTONIO — A psychologist who worked for the San Antonio Spurs has settled her lawsuit against the team and former player Josh Primo over allegations he had exposed himself to her multiple times in private sessions, her attorney said Thursday.

REGINA — The mentor and his protégé are a subplot of Sunday's Grey Cup game.