National Sports

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is feeling less pressure as he prepares for his second season with the Toronto Blue Jays. Having five months of big-league experience certainly helps with that.

BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona's Twitter accounts were hacked after the team's 2-1 home win over Getafe in the Spanish league on Saturday.

Winnipeg Jets centre Bryan Little will undergo a procedure to repair a perforated eardrum and will miss the rest of the NHL season. He hasn't played since he was struck in the left side of the head by a teammate's shot during a game on Nov. 5.

SIGULDA, Latvia — Canada's Justin Kripps and Ben Coakwell won bronze in a World Cup two-man bobsled race Saturday. Kripps, from Summerland, B.C.

WARREN, Mich. — Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling was charged with drug crimes after authorities say they found heroin in his vehicle that he planned to sell.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Bo Bichette isn't satisfied with the way Major League Baseball has handled the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal. The cheating itself came as less of a shock to him. "Cheating is cheating, people are going to do it ...

DORDRECHT, Netherlands — Canadian short-track speedskater Cedrik Blais won his first career World Cup silver medal Saturday with a time of one minute 33.739 seconds in the men's 1,000 metres. Blais, from Chateauguay, Que.

KRASNOYARSK, Russia — Winnipeg's Jacques Gauthier split his first two games at the world junior curling championship Saturday while Mackenzie Zacharias of Altona, Man., lost her opener at the Crystal Ice Arena.

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — New Zealand teenager Alice Robinson crowned her breakthrough season in the World Cup with a second career victory on Saturday.

Jack Eichel snapped his stick over the crossbar in frustration after an empty-net goal sealed a Buffalo Sabres loss, splintering it across the ice.