National Sports

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Everton fired manager Sean Dyche on Thursday with the Premier League club just two spots above the relegation zone.

OTTAWA — Rick Campbell is back with the Ottawa Redblacks. Campbell was named Ottawa's special-teams co-ordinator Thursday.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Rise continue to build out their roster ahead of the inaugural National Super League season, signing veteran midfielder Nikki Stanton on Thursday.

Two hundred Utah ski patrollers returned to work Thursday after voting to accept a new labor contract and end a nearly two-week strike that closed many trails and caused long lift lines at the ones that remained open during a busy time of year at the

ST. ANTON, Austria (AP) — Ski great Lindsey Vonn was 10th fastest in a training run on Thursday for her first World Cup downhill in six years.

PERTH — The Canadian women have been drawn in Pool B alongside Britain, Fiji and the U.S. at the HSBC SVNS Perth in Australia later this month. The Perth event, the third round of the seven-stop rugby sevens season, runs Jan. 24-26 at HBF Park.

TORONTO — Canadian investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners has partnered with Swedish private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to invest in CCM Hockey. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

TORONTO — Toronto Tempo president Teresa Resch believes the WNBA expansion team has found a kindred spirit in Sephora Canada as the basketball franchise's "founding partner and official beauty partner.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — West Ham hired Graham Potter as manager on Thursday, a day after Julen Lopetegui was fired. Potter has been out of management since he was fired by Chelsea in 2023 after just seven months in the job at Stamford Bridge.

VANCOUVER — Memories of the 2010 Olympics came rushing back for Marie-Philip Poulin as she stepped onto the ice at Rogers Arena on Wednesday.