MLB
NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor and the New York Mets have agreed to a $341 million, 10-year deal, protecting the All-Star shortstop in Queens for the lengthy haul after buying him from Cleveland in the offseason, in response to an individual accustomed to the settlement.
The particular person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday night time on situation of anonymity as a result of the deal hadn’t been introduced.
Lindor was eligible without spending a dime company after this season and mentioned this spring he wouldn’t negotiate with the Mets on a long-term deal after opening day. Less than 24 hours earlier than New York begins its season Thursday night time in Washington, an settlement was reached.
— By Baseball Writer Jake Seiner.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden informed ESPN on Wednesday it was a mistake for the Texas Rangers to permit full capability at their ballpark for his or her first sport.
Speaking on the eve of opening day, Biden additionally mentioned he helps discussions between Major League Baseball and the gamers’ union on shifting the All-Star Game from Atlanta over concern about laws adopted in Georgia proscribing voting rights.
Fans are set to return to main league stadiums on Thursday after they have been saved out through the common season final yr due to the coronavirus pandemic.
NHL
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Linus Ullmark stopped 31 photographs and the Buffalo Sabres snapped an 18-game skid — the NHL’s longest in 17 years — with a 6-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night time.
It was the primary win for Buffalo since a 4-1 victory at New Jersey on Feb. 23, and ended an 0-15-3 streak. The droop was tied for the league’s 14th longest, and worst for the reason that Pittsburgh Penguins had a 0-17-1 stretch through the 2003-04 season.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — UConn star Paige Bueckers is the primary freshman ever to win The Associated Press ladies’s basketball participant of the yr.
Bueckers was knowledgeable she received the award by coach Geno Auriemma throughout a group video session and broke down as she accepted it in entrance of her teammates.
Bueckers obtained 21 votes from the 30-member nationwide media panel that chooses the weekly AP Top 25. Dana Evans of Louisville was second with 4 votes.
The AP began the award in 1995. Bueckers is the twelfth UConn participant to win it.
Maryland’s Brenda Frese was named The Associated Press ladies’s basketball coach of the yr for second time in her profession.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert promised the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association he’ll work with coaches to repair the “stark distinction” between the Division I males’s and ladies’s tournaments.
While Emmert famous {that a} main hurdle was making an attempt to carry each basketball tournaments in a type of equivalent format required by the coronavirus pandemic, he added no one appreciated the outcomes and no one needs to see comparable points crop up in different sports activities in coming months.
GOLF
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says detectives have decided what triggered Tiger Woods to crash his SUV final month in Southern California however wouldn’t launch particulars Wednesday, citing unspecified privateness issues for the golf star.
Woods suffered severe accidents in the Feb. 23 crash when he struck a raised median round 7 a.m. in Rolling Hills Estates, simply exterior Los Angeles
Sheriff Alex Villanueva has been criticized for his feedback concerning the crash, calling it “purely an accident” and saying there was no proof of impairment. Woods informed deputies he didn’t understand how the crash occurred and didn’t keep in mind driving. He was unconscious when a witness first approached the mangled SUV. But a sheriff’s deputy mentioned the athlete later seemed to be in shock however was acutely aware and in a position to reply primary questions.
SOCCER
SYDNEY (AP) — The 2023 Women’s World Cup can be unfold throughout 9 cities in Australia and New Zealand.
The opening match will happen at Eden Park in Auckland, with Sydney’s Stadium Australia internet hosting the ultimate. The two semifinal matches can be break up between Australia and New Zealand.
That format is just like different World Cup tournaments in different sports activities, together with most just lately in 2015 when Australia and New Zealand shared internet hosting of the cricket World Cup.
OLYMPICS
Chicago Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman has been chosen to supervise constructing the U.S. males’s nationwide hockey group for the 2022 Beijing Games.
Bowman will function basic supervisor and be assisted by Minnesota Wild GM and three-time U.S. Olympian Bill Guerin.
USA Hockey’s announcement comes with the NHL anticipating its gamers’ return to the Olympics, pending negotiations with the International Olympic Committee scheduled for this summer time.
COURTS
NEW YORK (AP) — Umpire Ángel Hernández misplaced his lawsuit towards Major League Baseball alleging racial discrimination.
The Cuba-born Hernández sued in 2017 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, a case later moved to New York. Hired as a giant league umpire in 1993, he alleged he was discriminated towards as a result of he had not been assigned to the World Series since 2005 and had been handed over for crew chief. Hernández was made an interim crew chief final July initially of the pandemic-delayed shortened season after a dozen umps determined to take a seat out.
