NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s goal of an international amateur draft was thwarted again when the players’ association rejected management’s final offer on Monday and retained direct draft-pick compensation for free agents.
Tryouts for the Blue Springs Post 499 Fike American Legion 18U and 17U baseball teams will take place at Hidden Valley Baseball fields on July 31, Aug. 3 and Aug.
WEDNESDAY’S TELEVISION • Tennis: ATP Atlanta/ATP Umag/ATP Kitzbuhel/ WTA Prague/WTA Warsaw, 5 a.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • MLB: Atlanta at Philadelphia, 11:30 a.m., MLBN (272) • Horse racing: NYRA Saratoga, noon, FS2 (740) • MLB: Los Angeles at Royals, 1 p.m., Bally Sports KC (48) • Women’s soccer: UEFA Championship semifinal: Germany vs. France, 1:30 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • MLB: San Francisco at Arizona, 2:30 p.m., MLBN (272) • MLB: New York Yankees at New York Mets, 6 p.m., ESPN (13) • Basketball: TBT: Dayton Regional: Round of 16, 6 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • Tennis: ATP Atlanta, 6 p.m., Tennis (277) • Basketball: TBT: Quarterfinal: Gutter Cats vs.
The NFL is making its move into offering its own media streaming platform. The league announced that “NFL+” launched on Monday.
NASCAR warned its teams it was serious about stamping out a culture of cheating that stretched back to its roots and let illegitimate race winners often walk away unscathed with nothing worse than a fine or a few docked points for the team.
PHILADELPHIA — Five years ago, Philadelphia was at the forefront of two major NFL events. The first came in April 2017, when the league held the NFL draft there.
DALLAS — The fact that Big 12 and Pac-12 officials conducted their supposed merger talks on Zoom calls tells you just how disingenuous the entire exercise was. Zoom is for booster boards and fantasy football drafts, not billion dollar, generational transactions. Who could keep a straight face pretending to be serious? Brett Yormark, the new Big 12 boss, probably never came out from behind his avatar.
The transformation of the U.S. women’s national team has been significant in the year since the Tokyo Games.
Zack Greinke is getting to the point in his career where it seems as though just about every start brings with it some kind of record, even those that the former Cy Young winner never anticipated seeing.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Two cornerstones of the Chiefs’ four straight AFC title game appearances walked into training camp elsewhere this week, and Kansas City coach Andy Reid will be spending much of the next month figuring out how to replace them.