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MLB
NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball plunged into its first walkout in a quarter of a century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked players out to jeopardize spring training and opening day.
The strategy, management’s equivalent of a federal labor law strike, ended the sport’s industrial peace after 9,740 days in 26 1/2 years.
The teams decided to force the long-awaited confrontation during an off-season rather than risking players being eliminated in the summer, as was the case in 1994. Player and owner had made four consecutive non-stop agreements, but they’ve been accelerating into a clash for more than two years.
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Mets and Max Scherzer signed a three-year $ 130 million deal, a deal that broke the baseball record for highest median salary and a historically impressive 1-2 place at the top of New York’s rotation with Jacob deGrom forms.
The 37-year-old Scherzer will be 43.33 million.
Scherzer has the right to get out after the 2023 season and become a free agent again.
UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL
Notre Dame is working on a deal to promote defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman to head coach to replace Brian Kelly, a person with knowledge of the situation, the Associated Press told the Associated Press on Wednesday night.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity as nothing had been finalized, although the first part of Notre Dame’s plan to regroup after Kelly went to LSU earlier this week had already come into effect.
Offensive coordinator Tommy Rees announced to Notre Dame that he would stay with the Fighting Irish instead of joining Kelly in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Notre Dame posted a video on Twitter Rees telling the team that he was staying in place.
– By college football writer Ralph D. Russo.
DALLAS (AP) – The final meeting to expand the college football playoff closed without notice on Wednesday when those involved agreed to continue speaking.
Bill Hancock, executive director of CFP, said there was still strong consensus to add four teams to the management committee, which consists of the top 10 commissioners from the college football conference and the sports director of Notre Dame.
A proposed 12-team model remains the focus of discussions and there is still hope that it can be implemented for the 2024 season. How teams should qualify and be selected are still being discussed.
TENNIS
The head of the women’s professional tennis tour announced on Wednesday that all WTA tournaments in China are being suspended over safety concerns of Peng Shuai, a double-winner Grand Slam who accused a former high-ranking government official in that country of sexual assault .
Peng disappeared from the public eye after making allegations about former Vice Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli in a November 2 social media post that was swiftly removed by Chinese authorities.
WTA Chairman and CEO Steve Simon reiterated his call for a “full and transparent investigation – without censorship” into Peng’s allegations and took an unusually strong stand against China, which would host several tennis tournaments next year, including the prestigious season-end the WTA finals.
BASKETBALL FOR WOMEN’S COLLEGE
STORRS, Connecticut (AP) – UConn star newcomer Azzi Fudd will be sidelined for at least the next two weeks with an injured right foot, coach Geno Auriemma said on Wednesday.
Auriemma said after the workout that Fudd had been battling an apparent stress injury since the summer and recent media scans showed it was time to shut it down for a while.
Fudd, a Former International of the Year, was the nation’s consensus top recruit to drop out of Washington high school. She averaged 7.5 points and 2.3 rebounds in her first four games for the Huskies.
BATHE
LONDON (AP) – British three-time Olympian Hannah Miley retired from competitive swimming on Wednesday.
The 32-year-old Scottish individual medley specialist is a former World, European and Commonwealth Games Champion.
Miley was a finalist for Great Britain in three consecutive Olympic Games, most recently in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished fourth in the 400-meter individual medley.
FIGURE SKATING
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) – Two-time world third-party medalist Tiffany Chin, synchronism coach Vicki Korn of the University of Miami, Ohio, and two-time Olympic judge Lucy Joyce Brennan have been elected to the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
Their introductions will take place on January 9th at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which will serve as a test for the Beijing Olympics. Additionally, the class of 2021 members Johnny Weir, Sandy Lamb and Gale Tanger will be introduced after COVID-19 restrictions banned their formal entrenchment for the 2021 national championships in Las Vegas.
SOCCER
CARY, NC (AP) – Interim coach Sean Nahas has been named permanent head coach for the North Carolina Courage.
Nahas replaced Paul Riley, who was sacked in September after two former players charged him with sexual harassment and coercion. Riley denied the allegations.
The Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly revelations led to the resignation of the National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Lisa Baird. It also led to independent investigations by the NWSL and US football.
OBITUARY
CHICAGO (AP) – LaMarr Hoyt, who won the 1983 AL Cy Young Award with the Chicago White Sox, has died. He was 66.
The White Sox announced his death on Wednesday. The team said he died on Monday in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, after a prolonged illness.
Hoyt went in the majors 98-68 with an ERA of 3.99 in eight years. He also had 48 full career games, including eight shutouts and 10 saves.
The 6-foot-3 right-handed man was the 1985 All-Star Game MVP, throwing three innings of a one-run ball in the National League’s 6-1 win over the AL. That year with San Diego was the only all-star pick of his career.
DISHES
NOVI, Michigan (AP) – The death of Columbus Blue Jackets goalkeeper Matiss Kivlenieks in connection with fireworks at a house near Detroit during a July 4th celebration is not indicted, Oakland County Attorneys said Wednesday .
The death has been officially classified as an accidental death and the case is now closed, the office said.
The accident happened on Sunday 4th July at the home of Manny Legace in Novi, who was the goalkeeping coach for Columbus Kivleniek.
Kiwlenieks, 24, died of a chest trauma in a stray mortar fireworks display.
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