The San Diego Padres announced Monday additions to new manager Bob Melvin’s coaching staff.San Diego hired former Nationals manager Matt Williams as its third-base coach, while rounding out the staff with some other additions that were made official: Ryan Christenson as bench coach, Ruben Niebla as pitching coach, Michael Brdar as hitting coach, David Macias as first-base coach and outfield instructor, Francisco Cervelli as catching coach and Herberto Andrade as bullpen catcher.Cervelli’s name is a familiar one to New York Yankees fans. The catcher, a 13-year MLB veteran, spend his first seven seasons in the Bronx, making his debut in…
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Starting the season ranked 30th, Roger Federer made significant progress in the first half of 2001, winning the first ATP title in Milan in February and playing in the quarter-final in Miami, Monte Carlo, Roland Garros and Wimbledon.Roger’s first Major quarter-final came in Paris, and he added the second a few weeks later after an excellent performance at the All England Club. In a mouth-watering fourth-round clash, Federer stunned the seven-time Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras in epic five sets, advancing into the last eight and losing to Tim Henman in four tight sets. Roger struggled with a groin injury between…
UNDATED (AP) — Several asymptomatic, vaccinated NFL players tested positive for COVID-19 on the first day of “targeted” testing. That’s according to a person familiar with the results who told The Associated Press that 47 players overall were placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list, the most in a single day since the pandemic began. Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce (KEHL’-see), Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa (BOH’-sah) and Lions quarterback Jared Goff are among the players who landed on the reserve list.TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers say receiver Chris Godwin suffered a torn ACL in his right knee…
DeMar DeRozan has ranked in the top five in mid-range field goals made in eight of the past 10 seasons. When Stephen Curry broke Ray Allen’s 3-point record last week, the discussion was not just centered around Curry’s individual greatness as a shooter, but how he changed the game and ushered in the 3-point revolution in the NBA. The exponential growth of the 3-point shot at all levels of the game – NBA, college, high school, AAU – has had a significant side effect: the devaluation and essential disappearance of the mid-range game. The analytics behind this evolution make sense;…
For the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, Brad Keselowski will move to the Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing (RFK) team, after nearly 11 years with the Team Penske organization.ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adRecently, it came to light that Brad Keselowski will not be able to use his name sticker in a particular font because Team Penske has placed a copyright claim on that font. So, during the pre-season test at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Keselowski’s name was in a different font.It’s an in-house font of Penske’s own corporation, of course he’d care about it when it’s his own brandingit’s also not…
Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption is facing a new legal test. On Monday, lawyers representing the parent companies of four former minor-league teams (the Staten Island Yankees, Tri-City Valley Cats, Norwich Sea Unicorns, and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging MLB’s commissioner’s office of violating the Sherman Act.Those four clubs had their affiliate status revoked as part of MLB’s overhauling of the minor leagues last year. That process saw 40 teams in all removed.The complaint, filed by Weil, Gotshal & Manges, spans 33 pages. It states that MLB’s reorganization of the minors was a “naked, horizontal…
Story Links LEXINGTON, Ky. – Newly-appointed University of Kentucky women’s soccer head coach Troy Fabiano has announced the addition of transfers Hailey Farrington-Bentil and Taya Hjorth to the Wildcats’ roster beginning in January 2022. “We are thrilled to have Hailey and Taya join our program and are excited to welcome them to Lexington this spring,” said Fabiano. “They are both skilled players who will be assets to our existing roster, but more importantly, they are exceptional people who will fit into the team culture we are trying to create. They both want to make an impact on and off the…
Former Australian opener Ed Cowan has torn shreds off England labelling them the worst team to tour Australia in 20 years heading into the Boxing Day Test. Meanwhile England coach and selector Chris Silverwood has stood by his highly-criticised picks for the first two Ashes Tests, saying he would pick the same teams again.And Jofra Archer has suffered another injury setback that’s set to rule him out well into 2022.Scroll down for more in Ashes Daily! CODE. Go deep into the stories of sport locally and globally. Check out this week’s must reads on CODE and start your 1 month…
By Charles Brun: Kell Brook has got a REAL chip on his shoulders about being ignored by Amir Khan for the last 10+ years when attempting to get a fight with him, and now thinks he’s completely bonkers because he’s going to win their February 19th fight. According to Khan, the 35-year-old Brook is levels below him in the talent department, and he expects to put him in his place by proving that when they meet up. Brook can still punch, but his ability to take a shot looks like it deserted him completely, with him getting easily knocked out…
Monday’s loss to the Las Vegas Raiders could be the extent of Mike Priefer’s step-in as acting Browns head coach. Head coach Kevin Stefanski told reporters Tuesday that his 10th day in quarantine under the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols, which falls on Christmas Day when the Browns play the Green Bay Packers, won’t prevent him from returning to the Browns sideline, per Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal. Stefanski added that he expects to have quarterback Baker Mayfield available for Week 16, as well. However, he might be required to travel on his own to Green Bay if he doesn’t…