High schools get esports partner

Esports teams are coming to high schools in California after the CIF, the state’s governing body, announced a three-year agreement for PlayVS to be its official esports provider.

The cost to participate will be $64 per player. That will provide students with a suite of unblocked, in-game content and access to full games. Teams can compete in “League of Legends,” “Smite” and “Rocket League.” The deadline is Oct. 11 to register for the upcoming fall season.

Pittsburgh Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez was being held in a Pennsylvania jail on multiple felony charges after allegedly telling investigators he attempted to have sex with an underage girl during a meeting at her house in 2017.

Vazquez is charged with statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of minors, all felonies, and a misdemeanor count of indecent assault of a person under 16 years old.

The charges are related to Vazquez’s alleged encounters with a girl starting in 2017, when she was 13 and living about an hour east of downtown Pittsburgh.

Ryan Garcia will fight Romero Duno as part of a comain event on the Canelo Alvarez-Sergey Kovalev card in November in Las Vegas under a new multiyear agreement reached with Golden Boy Promotions. Garcia’s extension comes just days after his scheduled fight with Avery Sparrow on Saturday was canceled following Sparrow’s arrest on weapons charges.

The Women’s World Cup champion U.S. team will wrap up 2019 with matches against Sweden and Costa Rica. U.S. Soccer announced that the U.S. will face Sweden in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 7 and Costa Rica in Jacksonville, Fla., on Nov. 10.

Ron Hextall, a key member of the Kings’ front office during the franchise’s last rebuild a decade ago, is rejoining the club as a part-time advisor to hockey operations, the team announced.