National Sports

The Honey Badgers group chat never slowed down. Even as the various players went their separate ways after winning the Canadian Elite Basketball League championship to play in other leagues, the texts and jokes and memes kept coming.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames promoted from within and gave former player Craig Conroy his first job as an NHL general manager. The Flames introduced the 51-year-old from Potsdam, N.Y., at packed news conference Tuesday at the Saddledome.

MONTREAL — Familiar foes are set to clash in the Canadian Championship semifinal.

RABAT, Morocco — Canada's Leylah Fernandez advanced to the second round of the Morocco Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spain's Angela Fita Boluda on Tuesday. Fernandez, from Laval, Que., won 76.

TORONTO — With no Canadian teams left in the NHL playoffs, the NBA has taken centre stage with Proline-plus customers. According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., the top-five betting events last week were all NBA playoff contests.

TORONTO — It looked like business as usual at Toronto FC on Tuesday with Italian stars Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi both training.

TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts will celebrate their 150th anniversary sporting a different look.

TORONTO — Kyle Dubas is taking the high road.

GLASGOW, United Kingdom — Former Canada captain Scott Arfield is leaving Rangers at the end of the season.

MADRID (AP) — Four people suspected of hanging an effigy of Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior off a highway bridge in Madrid in January have been arrested, Spanish police said Tuesday.