MLB:
In baseball, Boston beat Baltimore 5-2 to keep their four game lead in the AL East over second place Toronto, the Yankees won against Tampa Bay 5-3, Toronto topped Seattle 10-2, Houston edged Oakland 2-1 in 10 innings, Detroit bested Minnesota 8-1, Texas slid past the Angels 5-4, and it was Cleveland over Kansas City 2-1. Philadelphia beat the White Sox 7-6.
In the National League, Atlanta edged the Mets 5-4, Miami blanked Washington 1-0, the Cubs won against Cincinnati 6-1, Pittsburgh doubled up Milwaukee 6-3, St. Louis beat Colorado 10-5, San Francisco bested the Dodgers 2-0, and San Diego topped Arizona 5-2.
Like many major league teams have done through the season, ESPN will use Vin Scully's call from the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast during ESPN's coverage of the Dodgers-Giants game tonight. ESPN plans to air Scully's call during the fourth inning. Scully is retiring after calling the Dodgers' final regular season game October 2.
Mets lefty Steven Matz will throw a bullpen session today, which means he could potentially return to the rotation Friday against Philadelphia. Matz hasn't pitched since mid-August because of an impingement in his throwing shoulder.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is confident teams fully disclose medical records, but said his office has demonstrated that it will use discipline as a way to discourage rules violations. Manfred's comments came less than a week after MLB suspended Padres general manager A.J. Preller for 30 days without pay for failing to disclose medical information to the Red Sox before sending Drew Pomeranz to Boston.
Cubs right-hander Pedro Strop is set to be activated off the disabled list Friday, giving Chicago's bullpen another valuable arm for the playoffs. Strop threw about 20 pitches without difficulty in a simulated game Tuesday and declared himself pain-free following knee and groin injuries. He is 2-2 with a 2.89 ERA in 43 2/3 innings over 50 appearances this year.
NFL:
New England quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo did only limited work in practice yesterday as he recovers from the shoulder injury from a hit playing Miami last week. Coach Bill Belichick wouldn't talk about Garoppolo's status for this week but the Patriots appear likely to use rookie Jacoby Brissett if Garoppolo can't play.
Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy has been sued over a Philadelphia nightclub brawl that left two off-duty police officers injured. The civil suit says McCoy beat and kicked one officer while he was on the ground and punched another officer in the eye. The suit was filed Tuesday in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. District Attorney Seth Williams announced in April that no charges would be filed in connection with the Feb. 7 fight, saying he couldn't prove who started it. McCoy's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, declined comment. McCoy's attorney has said he was only trying to break up a fight between the officers and his friends over a $350 bottle of Champagne. Police have said the fight broke out over a misunderstanding about who had bought the bottle.
Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory has dropped an appeal of his latest suspension for substance abuse and now faces a 10-game ban on top of the four games he will already miss. Dallas owner Jerry Jones said on his radio show that it was pointless for Gregory to pursue the appeal since the NFL Players Association wouldn't back him. A 14-game suspension would make Gregory ineligible to play until Week 16 this season.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (KAP'-ur-nik) says he has received death threats through social media and other avenues since he began his protest during the national anthem last month. Kaepernick says he hasn't alerted team security and understood that such threats could occur once he began protesting over racial oppression and police brutality in the United States. Kaepernick also said he plans to start a website soon showing he is donating the $1 million he has pledged to organizations supporting his cause of racial equality.
Meanwhile the Syracuse Post Standard three Nottingham High School football players knelt during the National Anthem before their game at Auburn on Friday night. It follows Kaepernick’s protest which has seen similar demonstrations around the country.
Chicago Bears head coach John Fox may have to go with a patchwork roster this weekend. Fox isn't ruling out quarterback Jay Cutler for Sunday's game against Dallas despite a sprained right thumb suffered in last night's 29-14 loss to Philadelphia. Fox says Brian Hoyer will start against the Cowboys if Cutler is unable to play. Meanwhile, Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan will undergo thumb surgery Wednesday, and the team will spend the rest of the year without linebacker Lamarr Houston because of a torn ACL in his left knee.
Olympics:
Several rowers who competed and won medals at the Rio Olympics this summer are lined up to compete at the Head of The Charles Regatta in late October. The 52nd edition of the Regatta also will feature two new events as well as an expansion of Para Rowing events, with close to 11,000 total competitors.
5K – New Jersey Bombing:
Some of the runners who were set to compete in last weekend's race in New Jersey canceled after a pipe bomb explosion last weekend will run the annual Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers race this Sunday. Organizers of the race tell WCBS-AM they extended the invitation after the cancellation of the Seaside Semper Five Marine Corps fundraiser.
NCAA:
The Army Black Knights are honoring Brandon Jackson with a helmet sticker for the rest of the season. Jackson's No. 28 also will be stitched on the coaches' hats. The 20-year-old sophomore cornerback died early Sept. 11 after a one-car crash about 20 miles south of the West Point campus. Jackson, who grew up in Queens, New York, and watched Army football games as a kid, earned a starting job as a freshman and had played in all 14 games since his arrival in 2014. An impact player, he finished with 68 career tackles and three interceptions in his brief college career. Hundreds of people, including 10 busloads of West Point cadets, attended a funeral service for Jackson on Monday night in Queens. He will be buried in Georgia.
A doctor accused of sexual abuse by two American gymnasts has been fired by Michigan State University. The school says its police have received additional allegations of abuse by Dr. Larry Nassar since last week. The two gymnasts include a member of the 2000 U.S. women's Olympic team. They have said they were sexually abused as teenagers by Nassar, a former longtime doctor for USA Gymnastics. Nassar was a faculty member at Michigan State. The university said last week Nassar was investigated in 2014 over another allegation of misconduct, but the school found no violation of its policy.
NHL:
The New York Islanders have reached agreement with free-agent forward Ryan Strome. The two year deal will pay Strome $5 million. The Islanders also Tuesday announced their hiring of Claude Loiselle as a hockey operations consultant. He had the same job last season for Arizona.
Buffalo Sabres forward Evander Kane says a woman's civil suit claiming he seriously injured her during an attack in his hotel room is meant solely to harass him. Kane calls the 21-year-old woman's allegations "a sham" in a counterclaim filed in state Supreme Court last week. The filing, first reported by The Buffalo News on Tuesday, seeks dismissal of the July 1 complaint and legal costs. The woman claims she suffered emotional trauma and required multiple surgeries and blood transfusions after the December encounter.
In March, prosecutors declined to charge Kane with any crimes following an investigation into a possible sexual assault. Kane has pleaded not guilty to harassment, disorderly conduct and trespass stemming from a separate incident in June during which he allegedly grabbed three women by the hair and neck. Kane's next scheduled court appearance for that case is Oct. 31. He's scheduled to report to training camp on Thursday.
NBA:
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled a woman accusing Knicks star Derrick Rose of rape cannot stay anonymous at her upcoming civil trial. The woman says Rose and two of his friends raped her in 2013 while she was incapacitated from drinking. Rose says the sex was consensual.
Hockey – World Cup:
It will be three-and-out for the U.S. hockey team. The Americans have been eliminated in the round-robin competition following a 4-2 loss to Canada. The United States ended Price's shutout streak at 228:41 when Ryan McDonagh opened the scoring 4:22 into the game, but Matt Duchene tallied twice later in the first period before Patrice Bergeron made it 4-1 midway through the game. The outcome leaves Canada 2-0 and drops the U.S. to 0-2 with one game remaining. Also on Tuesday, Henrik Lundqvist turned back 36 shots as Sweden blanked Finland 2-0 to improve to 2-0. The Finns are 0-2.
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