12:07 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball has reorganized its minor leagues in a 120-team regional alignment. MLB released a plan Friday for two Triple-A divisions, and three divisions each for Double-A, high-A and low-A. Forty affiliates were dropped from 2019, the last season under the old minor league system, and
12:37 PM ET Associated Press COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Baseball’s Hall of Fame has canceled its traditional outdoor induction ceremony for the second straight summer because of the pandemic and plans an indoor, televised event for Derek Jeter and others being honored. Jeter, Larry Walker, Ted Simmons and late players’ association executive director Marvin Miller were
1:30 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball revamped its spring training exhibition schedule because of the pandemic, cutting travel for Florida-based teams in an effort to minimize coronavirus risks. College baseball teams, which often play big league clubs but are not subject to major league testing protocols, were dropped from the
Malhotra will be in charge of game development and operations © BCCI Delhi Capitals CEO Dhiraj Malhotra will replace Saba Karim as the BCCI’s General Manager. He will be in charge of game development and operations. Malhotra, who has been in the cricket industry for more than two decades, has also held senior positions at
1:45 PM ET Maryland is set to hire Baylor cornerbacks coach Brian Stewart as defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. A deal is being finalized with Stewart, who served as Maryland’s defensive coordinator from 2012 to 2014, when current Terrapins head coach Mike Locksley was the team’s offensive coordinator. Stewart, 56, spent the 2020 season at
12:36 PM ET Former Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence had good reason to hold his pro day on Friday, a month early. Lawrence wanted to prove to NFL teams that he’s able to handle himself well when things don’t go according to plan. “The original plan was to have two months training out in California
11:45 AM GMT Billy Burns and Jamison Gibson Park have replaced the injured Johnny Sexton and Conor Murray for Ireland’s Six Nations clash with France on Sunday at the Aviva in Dublin. Ulster’s Iain Henderson will captain the side for the first time and will be joined by Tadhg Beirne in the second-row. – Play
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — If Arizona Cardinals linebacker Haason Reddick did one of those “How it started … how it’s going” memes to describe his 2020 season, it’d go something like this: Frame 1 — Reddick sitting on a bench, unsure of how much playing time he’d get with a list of goals
11:26 AM ET J.J. Watt racked up a franchise-record 101 sacks in his 10 years with the Houston Texans and won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award three times in a four-year span from 2012 to 2015. As great as he’s been on the field, he’s at least matched that with his difference-making
11:47 AM ET HOUSTON — When Houston Texans fans booed J.J. Watt on draft night in 2011, they couldn’t have foreseen what was to come. They couldn’t have known that Watt would become the face of the franchise, the best player in its 19-year history and a legendary figure in Houston. On Friday, it was