National Sports

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions. Milwaukee beat the Phoenix Suns 105-98 on Tuesday to take the best-of-seven NBA Finals in six games. It is Milwaukee's first NBA championship since 1971.

TORONTO — Canada has lost two of its forwards at the Gold Cup, with Toronto FC feeling long-term pain as a result. TFC forward Ayo Akinola is out for the season after injuring the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in Canada's 1-0 loss to the U.

NEW YORK (AP) — Shark Week just finished its 33rd edition on Discovery, a television event so old that one advertising executive joked it could have its own children.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday was postponed because of thunderstorms. It will be made up as part of a doubleheader August 7 in Toronto. The teams conclude their series Wednesday.

VANCOUVER — Rick Campbell has a vacancy on his B.C. Lions coaching staff. The Lions announced Tuesday that defensive line coach Leroy Blugh is no longer with the CFL team.

TORONTO — Seven games into his Major League Soccer career and elusive Toronto FC winger Yeferson Soteldo is already turning heads.

He's vying with youngsters Nick Arbuckle and Antonio Pipkin to be the Toronto Argonauts' starter but the only quarterback competition veteran McLeod Bethel-Thompson is focused on is the one he faces daily from within.

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed Canadian kicker Tyler Crapigna on Tuesday. Crapigna, of Ottawa, was recently released by the Montreal Alouettes. The former McMaster Marauder has made 98-of-115 career field-goal attempts in the CFL (85.

Players, staff and billet families with the Ontario Hockey League will all be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the upcoming season.

It hasn't taken head coach Orlondo Steinauer long to figure out when veteran linebackers Simoni Lawrence and Jovan Santos-Knox are on the field together at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats training camp.