.(Baseball)…
Padres…Team workout Wednesday-Petco Park..open season-Thursday-vs-Detroit
Padres..Sources Joe Musgrove will not be allowed to throw in the bullpen for 3-more weeks…Means earliest return would not be until May.
Padres..Surprise decision to DL-P-Jason Adam for 15-days to continue to strengthen his knee despite 2-strong appearances in Cactus League.
Padres…26-man roster due on Wednesday…Trying to make decisions on relief pitcher Ron Marinaccio-Matt Waldron-both out of options…Likely to assign Yu Darvish-Joe Musgrove-Yuki Matsui-Song Sung to Disabled List.
Padres..Season predictions: Fangraph (79-wins)..Baseball Prospectus (81)..ESPN (83).
Dodgers-Angels..Final game Freeway Series-Tuesday
Dodgers..P-Blake Snell stays at Camelback Ranch to ramp up…Team says it may take 10-weeks to get ready-targeting May 31st as likely return date.
Dodgers..Insist P-Roki Sasaki will stay in the rotation despite (15.58-ERA) in spring training…(8.2inn-15W-3HR) this spring.
Dodgers..Announce Yosh Yamamoto..Emmet Sheehan..Tyler Glassnow will start opening series vs Arizona…Will start Shohei Ohtani-Roki Sasaki vs Cleveland in 2nd series.
Angels..Announce Adam Frazier-Oswaldo Peraza will platoon at 2B to start yer.
Angels..Name Jose Soriano-Yusei Kikuchi to start series vs Houston..3td starter not named yet.
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(MLB Notes)
MLB Season Opener…Wednesday…Giants-vs-Yankees….Max Fried-vs-Logan Webb…Debut of ABS-Challenge system.
Houston..Rookie P-Tatsuya Imai (2.2inn-0R) in AAA-game
Cardinals..P-Dustin May (4inn-0R) in AAA start
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(Injuries)
Red Sox…Leave 1B-Tristan Casas in extended spring training
Tampa Bay..P-Nick Martinez-hamstring issues
Tampa Bay..DL-P-Ryan Pepiot-hip injury
A’s..DL-P-Gunnar Hoglund-sprained knee
Brewers..Put OF-Akil Baddoo on 60-day DL
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(Roster Moves)
Cubs..Sign OF-Peter Crow Armstrong to contract extension
Mets..Release C-Austin Barnes
Braves..Sign FA-P-Osvaldo Bido-ex Yankees
Tampa Bay-Brewers..TRADE..Rays deal P-Jake Woodford for propsect
Tigers..Promote rookie SS-Kevin McGonigle to 25-man roster
Cubs..Promote OF-Dylan Carlson to MLB roster
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…(Basketball)…
Lakers-at-Indiana..Wednesday…Lakers (46-26)..won 9-of-10
Clippers-vs-Toronto…LA (36-36)..Wednesday
Union..Demands NBA abolish ’65-Game Rule’ for MVP candidacy…6-star players may fall short of playing in 65-games because of injuries.
NBA…Upset that 5-teams appear to be tanking the season…Indiana-Washington-Nets-Sacramento-Utah have a combined record of (181-286) this year
Milwaukee..Release G-Cam Thomas
Warriors..G-Moses Moody-serious knee injury
Lakers..F-Rui Hachimura-calf issue…G-Marcus Smart-back flareup
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(College)
North Carolina..Fires Hubie Davis as head coach after another 1st round ouster in March Madness..Was criticized for game management after blowing a 19-point lead…Struggled with the concept of NIL era…Refused to hire assistants from outside…Was (125-54) with Tar Heels but had become estranged from alumni-media.
USD..Hires JR Blount as head coach…lead Assistant Coach at Iowa State….inherits Torero program (74-133) last 7-years.
CBS-TV ratings…March Madness numbers rocket….1st round games-Thursday-Friday had (9.8M) viewership….2nd round-Saturday-Sunday had (11M) viewers.
Aztecs…Star G-BJ Davis will test the transfer portal-according to his agent…Averaged 9-and-10 points over last two years…1st Aztecs to enter portal
NIT..New Mexico blows out St Joes (84-69)..C-Tomislav Buljan (27P-10R)…G-Josh Hall (24P) in Lobos win sending them to semi finals in Indy
Tulsa-W-Wichita State (83-79)..Canes hit 12-3’s in come from behind win to move to semi finals
NIT-Thursday games..Dayton-vs-Illinois State..Nevada-vs-Auburn
Lady Aztecs…Travel day…head to Kansas for 3rd round game in WBIT-on Thursday
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…(Football)…
Pittsburgh…Mike Tomlin hires Media Agent Sandy Montag to explore possible TV Network Studio jobs…Legendary Steelers coach-stepped down in January…Sontag has strong relationship with CBS.
Dallas-Raiders…Report Cowboys made 3-trade offers for DE-Maxx Crosby…Raiders rejected #1-and-player…#1-2…and #1-3 draft picks.
Bengals..Re-sign 41Y old QB-Joe Flacco to (1Y-6M) deal as backup QB
Tampa Bay…Veteran LB-Lavonte David retires after 12-years.
49ers..Visit with FA-DE-Joey Bosa-ex Bills
Falcons..Sign FA-RB-Brian Robinson-ex Washington-49ers
Falcons..Sign FA-QB-Trevor Semien-ex Titans
49ers..Sign FA-OG-Robert Jones-ex Miami
Bills..Visit with FA-OC-Austin Corbett-ex Carolina
Chargers..Visit with OG-Vega Ioane-Penn State (6’4-330)..could be lst round pick
Atlanta..QB-Tua Tagovailoa meets with Media…’I have standards-did not reach them last year-ready to compete for starting job
Pittsburgh..Coach Mike McCarthy…’Ready for Reunion story with Aaron Rodgers’.
Hall of Fame…’Award of Excellence’ to Assistant coaches…Mike Westhoff-Miami (33Y) in NFL. as special teams coach…Bob McKittrick-49ers (24Y) in NFL as OL coach…Ted Cottrell-Bills-Legendary DL coach
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(College Football)
Tommy Tuberville-Senator from Alabama…Introduces Senate Bill on Transfer Portal….’5-Years to play 5-years…1X-Transfer’
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…(Hockey)…
Ducks-Vancouver..Tied (2-2) in late game…Alex Killorn-Mikhail Grandlund scored 2nd period goals for Ducks on road…Game tied (2-2) going to 3rd period at Press Time…Tuesday game
Kings-L-Calgary. (3-2)..Quinton Byfield scored 2-goals including breakaway for LA on road…Flames missed a 2-on-0 break in overtime…Kings missed open net in OT…leading to shootout…Flames win in shootout..Tuesday game
Boston..Sign #1 pick-C-James Hagens-Boston College (23G) this year
Edmonton..C-Connor McDavid refuses to talk about blowup with Coach Kris Knoblauch about teams poor play
Ducks..NHL-fines rookie Beckett Sennecke (2,000) for ‘diving penalty’
NY Rangers…Dismal season reaches new low…held to 9-shots on goal at home in loss…Rangers won just 9-of-34 home games at Madison Square Garden.
U Minnesota..Hires Brett Larson as head coach…was at St Cloud State…Golden Gophers (11-22-3)-worst record since 1971.
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…(General)…
Soccer…Liverpool to release legendary striker Mo Salah at end of season…Has scored (255) career goals…Liverpool will not get a transfer fee when he moves on.
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