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When: 7:30. Where: Home Depot Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket. Radio: 1150. Records: Galaxy 8-2-6; Toronto 2-5-7 Record vs. Toronto : 0-0-1. Update: The Galaxy rides a seven-match unbeaten streak into this encounter with Toronto, outscoring its opponents 9-3. A scoreless draw against D.C. United on June 3 snapped a four-match winning streak, as the Galaxy felt the absence of forward Landon Donovan. Donovan and goaltender Donovan Ricketts are tending to national duties in the Gold Cup, and midfielder Juninho is away in Brazil with wedding vows on his mind.

On a whole, this has been a good season offensively for catchers. Yet not every owner can have Yadier Molina or Buster Posey. Staff writer Tim Hubbard looks at two who are proving their worth, and two who are not. BANG FOR BUCK Evan Gattis Atlanta At the plate, Gattis may resemble a saloon owner wielding a broken table leg, but there's no arguing with the results. Gattis has received plenty of playing time due to a preseason shoulder injury to perennial All-Star Brian McCann, and had responded with a .281 average, 12 home runs and 32 RBIs before Saturday.

Roadside Attractions has picked up domestic distribution rights to Sarah Polley's quasi-documentary "Stories We Tell" at the Toronto International Film Festival, the company announced Monday. The film, which also screened at festivals in Venice and Telluride, Colo., traces Polley's discovery of a family secret. The film, which Polley discusses in  this blog post,  has generated strong festival reviews. Roadside said it planned to release the film early next year.  "I'm not a tortured artist in any way," Polley said in Toronto.

The Dodgers - and their world-record payroll - have sunk to the bottom of the National League West. The Angels - and their collection of superstar hitters - are flailing in the depths of the American League West. We thought we would be talking about the Dodgers and Angels meeting in a Freeway Series in October, not about whether the Dodgers and Angels would fire their managers before the Freeway Series at the end of May. Josh Hamilton is fighting to keep his batting average above the Mendoza Line.

David O. Russell's boisterous, crowd-pleasing comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” won the BlackBerry People's Choice Award at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. Because the festival is non-competitive and has no jury, the People's Choice prize is widely viewed as the event's most coveted award, at least from the perspective of positioning a movie for an awards-season launch. PHOTOS: Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Past winners include “Slumdog Millionaire," “The King's Speech” and "American Beauty" - films that went on to take the Academy Award for best picture.

Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated movie "The Master" is going to play the festival circuit: The Weinstein Co. film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams will be included in the lineup for the Venice Film Festival, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Reports suggest that the film will likely appear as part of the Toronto International Film Festival too. The movie, which will open theatrically Sept. 14, centers on a cult leader and his relationship with a loner in the early days following World War II. While Anderson ("There Will Be Blood")

Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions are making a bet on the rising stock of Kristen Wiig, purchasing the U.S. theatrical rights to her latest starrer, "Imogene," Monday night.  The deal marks the second significant buy from Roadside Attractions, which sealed another purchase earlier today for the rights to Sarah Polley's quasi-documentary "Stories We Tell. " In "Imogene," Wiig plays a failed playwright who fakes her own suicide after her boyfriend leaves her and she gets fired from her magazine job. The film costars Annette Bening, Matt Dillon and "Glee's" Darren Criss.

One day after the NHL delivered a hit to players' wallets by canceling the first two weeks of the schedule, the top leaders of the league and the players' union met in Toronto on Friday to discuss where they are in their dispute. At least they're talking. But the question is whether they can have substantive and continuing negotiations and find a way to resolve the economic roadblocks that jeopardize the season and lift the lockout imposed by the NHL on Sept. 15. The league was represented by Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly.

TORONTO--The negativity that accompanied Terrence Malick's  “To the Wonder” at the Venice Film Festival last week was never likely to travel wholesale to Toronto, not with audiences here among the more generous in festivaldom. Still, when it landed on these shores Monday night, the reaction to the  auteur's romantic drama, his follow-up to last season's best picture nominee “The Tree of Life” and first-ever contemporary piece, was restrained to say the least. Tepid applause followed the screening at the Princess of Wales theatre, a contrast to enthusiastic clapping that follows a great many screenings at this festival.

Toronto pitcher J.A. Happ is responsive and doing well after being struck in the head by a line drive during Tuesday night's game, the Blue Jays said Wednesday morning. The seven-year veteran suffered a head contusion and a laceration to his left ear, but the team said it expects him to be released from Bayfront Medical Center later in the day after further testing. The scary incident occurred at Tropicana Field during the second inning of the Blue Jays' 6-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla. Happ had no time to react as a line drive by Desmond Jennings hit him in the side of the face.

There are some people in the world who just don't get it. In their desire to be clever, they don't look at the big picture. The Toronto Maple Leafs have one such fan. Several hundred Maple Leafs fans gathered at Maple Leaf Square outside the Leafs' home arena Monday night as their favorite team took on the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. Most fans were wearing Maple Leafs jerseys and carrying handmade signs supporting their team. But one sign stood out in particular: a sign that said "Toronto Stronger," a play on words off the “Boston Strong” motto that has been used in Boston as a rallying cry after the Boston Marathon bombings.

An imam in the Toronto area came forward more than a year ago with concerns about one of the two suspects now charged with an alleged terrorism plot, an attorney who handled the tip said Tuesday. Toronto attorney Naseer Syed said the imam, who wants to remain anonymous, first came to him with his concerns about Raed Jaser, 35, who was arrested Monday by Canadian police.   “The community has always struggled with, at what point does some behavior or activity or words cross a certain threshold?

"Four years from now, if I'm able to sit up and take nourishment, I would. " - Joe Torre, 72, jokingly, on whether he would be interested in an encore as Team USA manager when the World Baseball Classic returns in 2017. "What do you think you could get for me? Pujols? Maybe three years from now, or when he's retired?" - Toronto Blue Jays Manager John Gibbons, on his predecessor, John Farrell, who was traded to the Boston Red Sox for utility infielder Mike Aviles. "Maybe every win isn't important.

Pluses There might be playoff games in The Center of the Hockey Universe for the first time since 2004, with the Toronto Maple Leafs having won three straight games and earned points in eight straight. Nazem Kadri and linemate Joffrey Lupul have played big roles, with Lupul collecting five goals and nine points in his last four games and Kadri scoring six goals and 14 points in his last eight. For that, Kadri was rewarded - or should that be punished? - by a kiss on the cheek from Don Cherry on Saturday.

GALAXY AT TORONTO FC When: 11 a.m. PDT. Where: BMO Field, Toronto. On the air: TV: TWC, TWCD; Radio: 1330. Records: Galaxy 2-0-1, Toronto FC 1-2. Record vs. Toronto FC (2012): 1-0. Update: The Galaxy is likely to play Saturday without captain and star striker Robbie Keane, who strained a calf while on international duty with Ireland last week. The team may also choose to rest defender Omar Gonzalez, who is coming off two monster games with the U.S. national team in World Cup qualifying.

With all that's going right for the Ducks these days, they moved Friday to land a player who can buttress their standing by acquiring forward David Steckel from the Toronto Maple Leafs for minor leaguer Ryan Lasch and a seventh-round draft pick in 2014. For a low price, the Ducks (20-3-3) gained a face-off specialist and type of veteran player contending teams typically pursue near the trade deadline (April 3 this season). The Ducks, who have won five straight going into Saturday's road-trip finale at St. Louis, demoted left wing Patrick Maroon to minor-league Norfolk to make roster room for Steckel.