Report: MLB players to propose 89 games
The Major League Baseball Players Association reportedly is making a proposal to MLB for a 89-game season with a full prorated share of salary and expanded playoffs.
The move would bring the sides closer to a potential deal because it is 25 games fewer than the union’s most recent proposal of 114 games at full pro rata, sources told ESPN.
But an MLB source told ESPN that the proposal is a nonstarter.
“Out of concern for the players’ health, extending the regular season past Sept. 27 won’t happen.” the source told ESPN. “There is a window of playing between 60-70 regularseason games but pay still remains an issue.”
5,000 fans allowed for Talladega race
Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama will allow up to 5,000 guests in the frontstretch grandstands/towers for the June 21 NASCAR Cup Series race. The decision comes one week after Homestead-Miami Speedway will allow up to 1,000 Florida military members to attend the race Sunday as honorary guests and view the race from the grandstands.
♦ NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace will race with a #BlackLivesMatter paint scheme on his No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet in the Cup Series race Wednesdsay at Martinsville Speedway.
League could condense 2020-21 season
Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk and other NBA general managers have been told by the league that the 2020-21 NBA schedule could be condensed in order to allow the league to remain as close as possible to its current schedule format.
♦ Michael Jordan and his fishing crew, Catch 23, reeled in a 442-pound blue marlin on the second day of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in the basketball great’s home state of North Carolina.
USWNT wants policy to be repealed
The U.S. women’s national team wants the U.S. Soccer Federation to repeal the anthem policy it instituted after Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during the “The StarSpangled Banner.” The USWNT also wants the federation to state publicly that the policy was wrong and issue an apology to the team’s black players and supporters.
♦ USC reportedly is expected to end former running back Reggie Bush’s disassociation from the university after 10 years. The 2005 Heisman Trophy winner reportedly is in the process of finalizing an agreement that would allow him to be reinstated with the school.