VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps are starting to display a quality that teams often have trouble finding — mental toughness.

Wednesday's Games

DETROIT - Chris Davis cleared the fences twice, giving him a major league leading 26 homers, to help the Baltimore Orioles beat the Detroit Tigers 13-3 Wednesday.

BOSTON - The Boston Bruins' comeback fell short this time. And suddenly the Stanley Cup final is a lot more interesting.

SAN FRANCISCO - Gregor Blanco had a pinch hit, two-run triple in the seventh inning, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday.

MONTREAL - Home turf is a happy place for Marco Di Vaio.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Yasiel Puig kicked back in his chair, his well-worn uniform streaked in red clay, and calmly answered questions in Spanish. Then, suddenly, he threw his hands in the air and shouted, "Pow!"

TORONTO - Early leads have been the norm, the pitching staff is rounding into form and confidence is growing by the day.

DETROIT - The Detroit Red Wings and city officials on Wednesday announced a $650 million plan for a new arena development for the NHL team in Detroit's downtown entertainment and sports district.

Georges St-Pierre will defend his UFC welterweight title on Nov. 16 in Las Vegas against No. 1 contender Johny (Bigg Rigg) Hendricks.

BOSTON - Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa was back in the lineup for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night.

MIAMI - Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.

CALGARY - Max Gartner lists his career highlights as the back-to-back world downhill titles captured by Canadian skiers John Kucera and Erik Guay.

NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. - State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away.

From piping Canadian television coverage into the athletes' village to locating soy milk for the lactose-intolerant Olympian, no detail is too small in pursuit of a gold medal.

TORONTO - Pat Watkins is back with the Toronto Argonauts.

PADERBORN, Germany - Leonie Maier scored the lone goal of the game to lead Germany's women's soccer team to a 1-0 win over Canada on Wednesday.

Forward Danny Briere is preparing to become an unrestricted free agent as part of the Philadelphia Flyers' off-season shakeup of their high-priced roster.

MONTREAL - Quebec has found a place to play soccer on the international stage, but it is not in a World Cup or any other event with national teams.

The Wayne Gretzky of Wayne Gretzky collectors has netted big bucks for old pucks after an auction of some of his choicest memorabilia closed Wednesday.

In little more than a month, Tiger Woods went from being tough to beat to having a tough time even playing.

Serena Williams says she's reaching out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position."

FORTALEZA, Brazil - The historic wave of protests that has swept across Brazil in recent days has gained some important allies — the players of the Brazilian national football team.

TORONTO - Dwane Casey will remain as the Toronto Raptors head coach, holding onto his job amid a major front office overhaul.

CALGARY - Jonathan Hefney holds no grudges against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

LONDON - The doping case involving Jamaican sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown appears to involve a "lesser" offence of unintentional use of a banned substance, the sport's world governing body said Wednesday.

BOSTON - The Chicago Blackhawks say Marian Hossa will be back in the lineup for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final and that the line of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Bryan Bickell will likely be reunited.

REGINA - It didn't take Daryl Stephenson long to land with another CFL team.