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Danica Patrick dating Aaron Rodgers
Danica Patrick’s heart is racing for Aaron Rodgers.
Patrick, a Chicago Bears fan, confirmed Monday she is dating the Green Bay Packers quarterback.
Rodgers split from actress Olivia Munn in 2017 after three years of dating.
Patrick in late November ended a five-year relationship with fellow NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Patrick and Rodgers have been linked since the start of the new year, right before Patrick began promoting her new fitness book.
She told the AP the two first met at the 2012 ESPY Awards and that despite her allegiance to the Bears, she told him she’d root for him.
Patrick is shifting her career off the racetrack and into the business of her personal brand.
Blue Jays to extend protective netting
The Blue Jays will extend the protective netting at Rogers Centre to the outfield end of each dugout this season and increase the height of netting behind home plate by approximately 10 feet to 28 feet.
The changes announced Monday are being made after several fans at stadiums at big league ballparks were injured by bats and balls last year.
MLB issued recommendations for protecting netting or screens in December 2015, encouraging teams to have it in place between the ends of the dugouts closest to home plate.
Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Minnesota, the New York Mets, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Texas and Washington had netting that extended to the outfield ends of the dugouts by last September.
The Blue Jays open at home against the Yankees on March 29.
The French soccer federation has suspended referee Tony Chapron until further notice after the official kicked a player during a league match.
The French federation says Chapron will be summoned to a disciplinary hearing following Sunday’s incident, when he kicked Nantes defender Diego Carlos before sending him off.
Chapron, who was to referee again on Wednesday when Angers faces Troyes, has been removed from the game.
The bizarre incident happened near the end of Paris Saint-Germain’s 1-0 win at Nantes. Carlos was running behind Chapron near the halfway line, and trying to catch up with play, when he inadvertently clipped the referee’s heels. Chapron rolled forward onto the turf then swiped his right leg at Carlos after tumbling. Chapron eventually got up and showed Carlos a second yellow card.