NEW YORK — Baseball players proposed expanding eligibility for the amateur draft rather than decreasing it, maintaining 20 rounds of selections and moving it back to June in a signal the sport is heading to a labor confrontation this offseason. During a two-hour bargaining session Tuesday ...
The Major League Baseball trade deadline, which is just under two weeks away on Aug. 3 at 6 p.m., is one of the most interesting days on the baseball calendar. It is a true sign of which teams are going to “go for it” for the final 50 games of the rest of the season. On a personal level, ...
NEW YORK — Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and Wimbledon winner Jannik Sinner lead the fields for the U.S. Open that begins next month. The U.S. Tennis Association announced the direct entry lists Tuesday for the final Grand Slam tournament of the season. Based on the July 20 rankings on the WTA and ATP Tours, the cutoff was No. 102 for the women and No. 101 for the men. Sabalenka tops the women’s rankings and will arrive in Flushing Meadows trying to become the first woman to win three straight U.S. Open titles since Serena Williams from 2012-14. Sinner will be trying ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — After having fallen to Hollidaysburg, 14-1, earlier in the tournament, State College couldn’t have asked for a more perfect start to Tuesday night’s Pennsylvania Section 4 Little League Championship at Joe M. Sheetz Field. The visitors scored five runs on five hits ...
THONON-LES-BAINS, France — American rider Brandon McNulty was apparently the subject of a road rage incident before Tuesday’s time trial at the Tour de France. McNulty, a teammate of overall race leader Tadej Pogacar, was confronted by an angry motorist who overtook him on his way to the start of stage 16, Mauro Gianetti, the CEO of UAE Emirates XRG, told broadcaster Eurosport. Gianetti said the driver of the car was furious and that he stopped his vehicle after overtaking McNulty, who then collided with the vehicle. “Nothing so big, but it was not nice,” said Gianetti, who ...
THONON-LES-BAINS, France — Time trial world champion Remco Evenepoel was fastest Tuesday as he won the 16th stage of the Tour de France to shave 28 seconds off Tadej Pogacar’s commanding lead. Evenepoel completed the 26.1-kilometer individual time trial in 32 minutes, 19 seconds, more than a minute faster than Mattias Skjelmose, the previous quickest, before the Belgian rider waited to see Pogacar cross the line with the second-best effort of the day. It is the third year straight that Evenepoel has won a time trial at the Tour. His parents and family members were present on ...
