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…(Baseball)…
Padres-Seattle Mariners…Cactus League Opener (12:10pm)-Friday..Logan Gillaspie will start..Manny Machado-Fernando Tatis-Gavin Sheets will start in lineup.
Padres…Kansas City Royals on Saturday
Padres…Dodgers on Sunday
Padres..Manager Craig Stammen comments:
..C-Ethan Salas is full go…will ease into game action….Needs reps
..C-Luis Campusano will share C-duties with Freddy Fermin early in preseason
Padres..P-German Marquez..’rushed comeback last year-has done full preparation…chose to San Diego-believes in Padres staff.
Padres..P-Walker Buehler-Griff Canning went thru first full bullpen
Padres..P-Tristan McKenzie-using sinker-needs harness consistency.
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Dodgers..Open Cactus League-Saturday-vs-Angels
Dodgers..P-Yosh Yamamoto will start vs Halos
Dodgers..Will allow Shohei Ohtani to throw bullpens while with Team Japan-WBC
Dodgers-Sign FA-=P-Yency Almonte-ex Cubs
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Angels..Face Dodgers-Saturday in Cactus League opener
Angels..Play Arizona on Sunday
Angels..Report team payroll is at (181M)…some (23M) below last year’s payroll number (204M)..Club has some (36M) available including Anthony Rendon deferred money.
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(MLB Notes)
Union…Bruce Meyer-lead negotiator…day after replacing Tony Clark:
..’We believe in meritocracy..Rewards for performances’
..’Players have a right to free agency-arbitration’
..’Salary cap means you take money from one player to give to another’
..’Cap comes with erosion of pay at different levels’
..’We are not going to eliminate freedom-flexibility for players’
NY Post..Report owners have built (2B) War Chest of funds if there is lockout-strike
Cleveland..P-Emmanuel Clase-pleads not guilty to pitch rigging indictment
A’s..Hire longtime Manager Bob Melvin as consultant
Brewers..Give Manager Pat Murphy 3Y-extension..Back to back-Manager of Year
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(Injuries)
Orioles..Shutdown 2B-Jake Westburg-elbow-oblique issues
Tampa Bay..Shutdown P-Edwin Uceta-shoulder issue
Mets..3B-Bret Baty-hamstring issues
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…(Baseketball)…
Aztecs-at-Colorado State…Saturday…SDSU (18-7)
USD-Loyola Marymont..Saturday…Toreros (11-17)
USD..Clarifying that Steve Lavin will coach final 3-games of season-then step down
USD..Reports school wants to talk to Pt Loma Nazarene head coach Justin Donner (70-19)…Montana State head coach Matt Logie…and former NBA coach David Fizdale
Georgia Tech..Vote confidence Coach-Damon Stoudemire despite (2-12) ACC record
NCAA..President Charley Baker expects vote this spring to expand NCAA field from 68-to-72 or 76-teams in March Madness.
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LA Clippers-Denver…Benn Mathurin (27P) off bench…Clippers trailed (87-83) in 4th quarter at Press Time……game stopped by shoving incident early in 4th quarter…Thursday game…LA won 20-of-27 games heading into the game.
Lakers-vs-Clippers..Friday…Lakers (33-21)
Lakers…Longtime Baseball agent and Dodgers CFO-Lon Rosen named President Baseball Operations of Lakers.
Charlotte..G-LaMelo Ball facing traffic charges after going left of center causing near T-bone crash with another car.
NBA..Adam Silver prepared to issue ‘Draft Change Rules’ to stop Tanking…Included would be ‘unweight lottery’…each team gets 1-ping pong ball in lottery….Protecting only Picks 1-thru-4 in potential trade…Ban teams from getting Top 4-picks in consecutive years
Suns..Owner Matt Ishbia condemns teams ‘intentionally tanking’….Calls owners of those teams ‘losers’
Boston..Sign FA-F-John Tonje-ex Utah
Memphis..G-Kantavious Caldwell-Pope-finger injury.
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…(Football)…
(NFL Notes)
Indiana…Votes to make land available in Hammond, Indiana to allow Chicago Bears to build new NFL Stadium…Bears would contribute 2M of construction costs…Bears gave up looking at proposals in 6-different sights around Chicago and suburbs.
Arizona..Cardinals begin construction of new Practice facility in North Phoenix-due to open in 2028.
Dallas..Hire 8-new defensive coaches under new Coordinator Christian Parker.
Raiders..Hire longtime coach Ric Dennison as Off Line coach
Denver..Hire Ron Curry-WR coach-ex Bills
Steelers..Legendary 1970s-S-Mike Wagner passes away (76Y)
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(Roster Moves)
Eagles..OT-Lane Johnson says he will return to play in 2026.
Raiders..Report team considering release QB-Geno Smith
Bears..Release LB-Amin Ogbongbemiga-special teams player
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…(Hockey)…
Olympics…Team USA-W-Canada (2-1) OT…USA women win gold in come from behind victory…Hillary Knight scores tying goal (2:04) left in 3rd period for USA….Megan Keller scores game winner on backhand shot at (4:07) into overtime…USA goalie Arien Frankel makes 30-saves including 2-on-1 breaks into zone in overtime.
Olympics…Men’s semi final games on Friday
..Team USA-vs-Slovakia
..Team Canada-vs-Finland
Gulls-at-Rockford…Play Saturday-Sunday AHL games on road…Gulls (22-16-9)
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…(General)…
(Olympics)
..Alysa Liu wins Gold for USA in women’s free skate event-first gold in 24-years.
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(Golf)..Genesis Open-Los Angeles..Play suspended by hard rain-cold
..(-6) Aaron Rai-was on 17th hole at darkness
..(-5) Rory McIlroy-in clubhouse
..(-4)..Ryan Fox
..(-3)..Colin Morikawa
..(+5)..Scott Sheffler..still on course
PGA…Golfers critical of expanded Riviera Country Club expanded length…Par 3-hole extended to (273Y)….18th hole now expanded to (499Y).
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(Soccer)…English Premier League-Top games
..Manchester City (14-5-4)-vs-Newcastle United
..Arsenal (15-5-3)-vs-Hotspur
..Manchester United (10-5-8)-vs-Everton
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(Auto Racing)
Daytona 500..Drew (7.9M) viewers to Sunday race
Joe Gibbs Racing…Files 8M-lawsuit against former Racing Director Chris Gabehart..’Theft of Research-Development data’ as he left to join Spire Racing.
Formula 1..Kimo Antonelli-best day in testing at Bahrain (1:32-lap)…Oscar Piastri-Max Verstappen were 2-3 in testing
Formula 1..Champion driver Lando Norris agrees with Max Verstappen that 2026 cars have alot of setup problems that F1 leadership needs to address.
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