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All-Arizona plan is on the table as MLB seeks to play a 2020 season
Boston’s Chris Sale, out for the season following Tommy John surgery, thought about the prospect of his teammates sequestered in the Phoenix area for an extended period if Major League Baseball and its players adopt an all-Arizona start to the season. “I don’t know if I could look at my kids just through a screen …
Commissioner raises possibility NHL won’t finish regular season
For the first time since halting play four weeks ago, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman raised the possibility Tuesday of not completing the regular season in order to squeeze in time to award the Stanley Cup. Bettman also acknowledged during an interview with NBCSN the league is considering having games played at neutral sites in the event not …
Ex-Cards 1B Mark Hamilton finishing med school just in time to fight virus in NY
NEW YORK — If he wanted, Mark Hamilton could show off his World Series ring at work. But the fill-in first baseman for the 2011 champion St. Louis Cardinals prefers to keep that prize safe at home. “The surgical scrub tub, not the most conducive place to wear it,” Hamilton said. On Friday, under an accelerated …
Anything and everything is on the table as NHL attempts to finish season
Shorts and skates don’t usually mix. Maintaining NHL-quality ice in August or holding a Stanley Cup Final in September? Those are far from the norm, too. With the NHL playoffs, which were to begin Wednesday, on indefinite hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, anything and everything is on the table if commissioner Gary Bettman’s objective …
AP report: MLB, MLBPA have discussed starting season at empty ballparks in Arizona
NEW YORK — Putting all 30 teams in the Phoenix area and playing in empty ballparks was among the ideas discussed Monday by Major League Baseball and the players’ association. The sides held a telephone call to talk about paths forward for a season delayed by the new coronavirus pandemic, people familiar with the discussion …
Questions abound if NHL were to go straight to playoffs
If the NHL goes directly to playoff hockey in the warmer months, it could leave some contenders out in the cold. The league may skip most, if not all of the final 189 regular-season games that were put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. The format of such an unprecedented tournament is unclear. Teams had unequal numbers …
NBA stars Tatum, Beal pledge support of St. Louis Food Bank
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum and Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal are each pledging $250,000 to help provide meals for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic in St. Louis and Boston. Tatum made the announcement on Instagram. The pledges will benefit Feeding America, the St. Louis Food Bank and Greater Boston Food Bank. Both Tatum and …
Fields of green: Mild winter, no games aids grass at MLB ballparks
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nicole Sherry poked some holes in the turf at Camden Yards, cut the grass and then left the ballpark about the same time the Baltimore Orioles should have been wrapping up their season opener. “What a beautiful day it would have been for a ballgame,” said Sherry, the head groundskeeper for …
MLB veterans on minor league contracts can get up to $50,000 advance payment
NEW YORK — About 370 players who were at big league spring training with minor league contracts will get advance payments of up to $50,000 each from the Major League Baseball Players Association. The money approved Friday by the union’s executive board will be in addition to $400 weekly allowances being paid to all minor …
2011 World Series games to air next week on FOX Sports Midwest
FOX Sports Midwest will replay the Cardinals’ four wins in the 2011 World Series starting Monday, April 6. Games will begin at 7 p.m. The following week, beginning Monday, April 13, FOX Sports Midwest will re-air games from last year’s historic Blues playoff run. That schedule will be announced in the coming days. 2011 World …