MONDAY SPORTS: HOMAN CLAIMS SCOTTIES CROWN

SCOTTIES

Rachel Homan of Ontario won the Canadian women’s curling championship with a dramatic 5-4 win over Jennifer Jones of Manitoba on Sunday night in Calgary. Homan and teammate Emma Miskew claimed the fourth Scotties Tournament of Hearts victories of their careers, but the first since 2017. Homan went undefeated in the tourney with an 11-and-oh record. Homan’s team will represent Canada at next month’s women’s world curling championship in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

NHL

• Kyle Connor scored 33 seconds into overtime to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 victory on Sunday that extended the visiting Arizona Coyotes’ losing streak to 12 games. Connor’s second goal of the game came on a 3-on-1 for Winnipeg. Mark Scheifele had a goal and three assists for the Jets, who have won three straight and six of their past seven. Nick Schmaltz scored twice for the Coyotes.
• Patrick Kane scored on a breakaway 1:43 into overtime in his return to Chicago, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 victory over the Blackhawks on Sunday. The dynamic winger then held his arms in the air as the season-high crowd of 21,141 at the United Center cheered. Kane starred for the Blackhawks for 16 NHL seasons before he was traded to the New York Rangers a year ago. He signed with Detroit as a free agent this season.
• Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists and became the first player in the league to reach 100 points this season in leading Tampa Bay past New Jersey. Kucherov leads the NHL with 102 points.
• The Columbus Blue Jackets scored three times in the second period and then hung on to defeat the visiting Rangers 4-2 to snap New York’s 10-game NHL win streak. Kirill Marchenko and Jack Roslovic each had a goal and assist for the Blue Jackets. The Rangers missed an opportunity to move into top spot in the overall standings. The league-leading Vancouver Canucks have 82 points, while the Boston Bruins and Rangers each have 81.

MLB

TAMPA, Fla. – Juan Soto belted a three-run homer to power the New York Yankees past the Toronto Blue Jays 12-6 in spring-training action Sunday afternoon. New York scored two runs in the third, three in the fourth and three more in the sixth to take a commanding 10-1 advantage.

But Toronto countered with five runs in the seventh inning. Alan Roden’s three-run double was the big blow for the Blue Jays.

However, New York rounded out the scoring with its two final runs in the eighth.

Alejandro Kirk also homered for Toronto.

Right-hander Bowden Francis took the loss. He allowed four hits, two runs (both earned) and fanned two over two innings.

Toronto hosts the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday in Dunedin, Fla.

NFL

A video surfaced Sunday that appeared to show 2015 NFL Most Valuable Player Cam Newton being involved in a scuffle at a 7-on-7 youth football tournament in Atlanta.

The video shows Newton, wearing one of his custom-made hats, being shoved by three people near the top of a set of steps before the pushing, shoving and grabbing moves toward a fence line. The video lasts less than 30 seconds before the altercation is broken up by a policeman and event security at the WeBall Sports x DynastyU 7v7 tournament at B.E.S.T. Academy.

Newton, the No. 1 overall pick in 2011 out of Auburn, does not appear to throw any punches in the video and appears to be fending off three other men. There is one punch thrown in Newton’s direction, but it is unclear if the punch landed on the former quarterback.