National Sports

HOUSTON (AP) — Gary Trent Jr. scored a season-high 42 points, and the Toronto Raptors pushed their season-high winning streak to eight games with a 139-120 victory over the Houston Rockets on Thursday night.

BOISBRIAND, Que. — The Acadie-Bathurst Titan were carried to a 5-2 win after a dominant second period against the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The long wait to be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame is finally over for several deserving candidates.

ERIE, Pa. — Christian Kyrou had the game-winner and an assist as the Erie Otters beat the Owen Sound Attack for their second straight win. Cedrick Guindon grabbed two goals as the Attack (19-18-1-2) fell 5-3 to their Erie counterparts.

TORONTO — Monitoring, chasing and keeping tabs on him for years, the Toronto Raptors can, at long last, say veteran forward Thaddeus Young is one of theirs. "Thaddeus is a known commodity around the NBA," Raptors general manager Bobby Webster said.

EDMONTON — With the Edmonton Oilers on the brink of a lost season and having little salary-cap flexibility available, Ken Holland had really only one option to shake up his team.

TORONTO — Andrew Harris has played football with a huge chip on his shoulder for the last 11 seasons and that's not about to change with the Toronto Argonauts.

VANCOUVER — Cammi Granato has been watching the Vancouver Canucks for years.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg said the NFL was late embracing hip-hop and vowed that their Super Bowl halftime show would create more opportunities for the genre.

BROSSARD, Que. — Martin St. Louis built a Hockey Hall of Fame playing career from proving everybody wrong. As the new Montreal Canadiens interim head coach, St. Louis is back home to do just that all over again.