MLB:
In baseball, the Yankees beat the Dodgers 3-0, Baltimore doubled up Boston 6-3, Tampa Bay tripled up Toronto 6-2, Oakland edged Kansas City 5-4, Texas won against Houston 3-2, the White Sox beat Cleveland 8-1, Seattle blanked the Angels 8-0, and it was Minnesota over Detroit 8-1.
In the National League, the Mets slid past Washington 4-3 in 10 innings, Miami won against Atlanta 7-5, Pittsburgh bested Philadelphia 5-3, Cincinnati topped Milwaukee 6-4, St. Louis doubled up the Cubs 4-2, Arizona won against Colorado 11-4, and it was San Diego over San Francisco 6-4.
Dodgers fans can forget about hearing Vin Scully during the playoffs. The 88-year-old announcer tells the Los Angeles Times his Hall of Fame career will end Oct. 2 in San Francisco. Scully had already said this will be his final season in the booth after 67 years, but until Tuesday had not announced whether he planned to call any potential postseason games on radio. His final broadcast will be Oct. 2 at San Francisco. He will also be behind the microphone for the Dodgers' home finale Sept. 25.
NFL:
One-time NFL rivals Tom Brady and Michael Strahan are teaming up for a six-part documentary series for TV titled the "Religion of Sports." The series will look at different examles of the cultural and spiritual impact of sports in religions around the world. The first episode airs in mid-November on the Audience Network.
A person familiar with the negotiations says the Packers have signed left tackle David Bakhtiari to a contract extension. Bakhtiari has been a starter since his rookie season after being drafted in the fourth round in 2013 out of Colorado. The signing comes less than two weeks after the Packers cut veteran left guard Josh Sitton, who is now with the Bears.
Buffalo and the New York Jets will be wearing special "Color Rush" uniforms for their game tomorrow night. The NFL says it consulted with color-blindness experts to make sure the special uniform combinations will be "clearly distinguishable" for fans. Fans complained last year's all red and green uniforms made it tough to tell teams apart.
The New York Giants have released placekicker Randy Bullock and have signed defensive tackle Montori Hughes. Brown had been suspended for the season opener by the NFL for violating the league's personal conduct policy.
The Patriots top the AP Pro32 poll after winning their first game under temporary starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. The Pats were 23-21 winners at Arizona on Sunday as Garoppolo threw for 264 yards and a touchdown. New England received five of 12 first-place votes in balloting by media members who regularly cover the NFL. The Broncos are second, followed by the Steelers, the Packers and the Panthers.
Also in the NFL:
— The Saints have released running back C.J. Spiller after he was a healthy scratch for the team's season-opening loss to the Raiders. Spiller signed a four-year, $16 million free-agent contract last year but was slowed by arthroscopic knee surgery before gaining just 351 total yards in 13 games last season. His best season was in 2012, when he had 1,244 rushing yards for the Bills.
— The Seahawks have signed cornerback Neiko Thorpe, who appeared in 28 games over the past two seasons with Oakland. Thorpe was briefly with the Colts last week before getting cut. Seattle also waived cornerback and former fifth-round pick Tharold Simon, who has struggled with injuries.
NCAA:
A lawyer for ESPN has argued that campus police at Notre Dame are just like other Indiana police departments, with their officers subject to the same disclosure laws. ESPN has pressed for the release of information involving the arrests of athletes on campus, with the dispute going before Indiana's Supreme Court yesterday.
The all-time winningest women's tennis coach in UMass history is retiring at the end of next season. Judy Dixon announced in a press release that she will retire following the 2016-17 season.
WNBA:
In the WNBA, Washington topped New York 75-62, Connecticut bested Indiana 89-87, San Antonio won against Atlanta 71-67, Chicago edged Minnesota in overtime 98-97, and it was the Sparks over Phoenix 90-85.
Doping:
Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and several prominent U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday. WADA said the hackers were a "Russian cyber espionage group" called Fancy Bears. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected WADA's statement blaming Russian hackers as unfounded.
Al-Jazeera America has asked a U.S District judge to dismiss defamation lawsuits filed by Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard. The suits were consolidated into one yesterday and refer to the documentary "The Dark Side: Secrets of Sports Doping," broadcast by Al-Jazeera America in December 2015. The suit alleges a pharmacist who appeared in the documentary made false statements when he said the two players took banned performance-enhancing drugs.
A verdict in Maria Sharapova's appeal against a two-year ban for doping has been delayed for a second time. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said the Russian should now find out the decision in her case against the International Tennis Federation early next month. Sharapova had initially hoped to get a fast-track verdict in July before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics began, but it was tabled for Sept. 19 after both sides' lawyers said they needed more time to prepare their cases. Sharapova was banned in June by the ITF after testing positive for meldonium at the Australian Open.
Olympics:
The International Olympic Committee has stripped two Russians of their medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics following doping retests. The IOC says four Russians have been disqualified from those Summer Games, including a silver medal-winning javelin thrower and a sprinter who helped the country win bronze in the 4x400-meter relay team. The IOC says all four cases involve the steroid turinabol.
NBA:
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Mitch McGary has been suspended without pay for at least 10 games for violating the terms of the NBA's anti-drug policy. The league says the suspension will begin when he has finished serving a five-game drug suspension that was announced in July. After the previous suspension, McGary said in a statement that he needed to "take accountability and ensure that this does not happen again."
World Cup:
Team Canada has added Ryan O'Reilly to its roster for the World Cup of Hockey to replace the injured Tyler Seguin. Hockey Canada announced the decision Tuesday. O'Reilly had 21 goals and 39 assists in 71 games last season, his first with the Buffalo Sabres. He won the Lady Byng Trophy for the 2013-14 season while with Colorado and has at least 50 points in four of the past five seasons. Seguin, a forward with the Stars, played in Canada's first two pre-tournament games against Team USA, getting an assist in a 5-2 win Saturday. Hockey Canada did not specify Seguin's injury. Canada plays its first World Cup game on Saturday against the Czech Republic.
Motocross:
Plans to replace a golf course with a motocross track in Fort Ann was approved last night by the town planning board 5-1. The Post Star reports that the track was approved with a series of conditions.
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