MLB
NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor and the New York Mets have agreed to a $341 million, 10-year deal, preserving the All-Star shortstop in Queens for the lengthy haul after buying him from Cleveland in the offseason, based on an individual accustomed to the settlement.
The particular person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday evening on situation of anonymity as a result of the deal hadn’t been introduced.
Lindor was eligible totally free 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 evening 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 recreation.
Speaking on the eve of opening day, Biden additionally mentioned he helps discussions between Major League Baseball and the gamers’ union on transferring the All-Star Game from Atlanta over concern about laws adopted in Georgia limiting 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 evening.
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 hunch was tied for the league’s 14th longest, and worst because the 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 girls’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 acquired 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 girls’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 girls’s tournaments.
While Emmert famous {that a} main hurdle was attempting to carry each basketball tournaments in a sort of similar format required by the coronavirus pandemic, he added no person appreciated the outcomes and no person desires to see related points crop up in different sports activities in coming months.
GOLF
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says detectives have decided what precipitated Tiger Woods to crash his SUV final month in Southern California however wouldn’t launch particulars Wednesday, citing unspecified privateness considerations 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 outdoors Los Angeles
Sheriff Alex Villanueva has been criticized for his feedback in regards to the crash, calling it “purely an accident” and saying there was no proof of impairment. Woods informed deputies he didn’t know the way the crash occurred and didn’t bear 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 aware and capable of reply fundamental questions.
SOCCER
SYDNEY (AP) — The 2023 Women’s World Cup will likely 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 will likely be cut 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 common 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 season.
COURTS
NEW YORK (AP) — Umpire Ángel Hernández misplaced his lawsuit in opposition to 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 an enormous league umpire in 1993, he alleged he was discriminated in opposition to 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 firstly of the pandemic-delayed shortened season after a dozen umps determined to take a seat out.
