National Sports

MONTREAL — After a 2-6 start to the season, the Montreal Alouettes now find themselves one victory away from a Grey Cup berth.

For the first time since mid-October, Félix Auger-Aliassime has a Sunday off - or almost.

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Brody Malone won the first world championship on the high bar by an American men's gymnast in 43 years on Sunday while Canada's Ellie Black took silver in the women's balance beam event.

WHISTLER, B.C. — Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton has a new president.

HOUSTON (AP) — Aaron Judge, Edwin Díaz, Trea Turner, Dansby Swanson and Xander Bogaerts were among 131 players who became free agents on Sunday as baseball's business season began just hours after the final out of the World Series.

PARIS (AP) — Unseeded Danish teenager Holger Rune staged a stunning comeback to secure the biggest victory of his career by beating Novak Djokovic 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the final of the Paris Masters on Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kenyans Evans Chebet and Sharon Lokedi made huge splashes in their New York City Marathon debuts on Sunday.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs signed goaltender Keith Petruzzelli to a two-year entry-level contract on Sunday. The 23-year-old netminder posted a 6-0-0 record and .922 save percentage with the AHL's Toronto Marlies this season.

LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom — Canada's Ellie Black won a silver medal in the balance beam competition on Sunday at the world gymnastics championships. Black, from Halifax, finished with 13.566 points. Japan's Hazuki Watanabe won gold (13.

HONG KONG — Nathan Lawson's last-minute try gave Australia a 20-17 win over Fiji in the final of the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens on Sunday, ending the Fijians' run of five straight tournament titles.