Penguins re-sign AHL defender
Fedun gets 2-year, two-way deal
Right-shot defenseman Taylor Fedun signed a new two-year deal to remain with the Penguins organization. The veteran defender was captain for their American Hockey League affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. The two-way contract carries an average annual value of $762,500 at the NHL level.
Fedun spent the majority of the past season in WilkesBarre/Scranton. In 44 games at the AHL level, he had 5 goals, 11 assists and a plus-12 rating. He spent a week with the Penguins in November but didn’t play in a game.
Fedun, 33, who’s listed at 6 feet 1 and 200 pounds, figures to spend much of next season in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, providing leadership at that level and veteran depth should the Penguins experience a rash of injuries on the right side of the blue line.
In other news, defenseman Juuso Riikola is leaving the organization and heading back overseas to skate for IK Oskarshamn of the Swedish Hockey League. Riikola spent parts of four seasons with the Penguins.
Baseball
The Washington Wild Things lost in the Frontier League’s new sudden-death tiebreaker to the Tri-City ValleyCats, 2-1, snapping Washington’s five-game
winning streak. Washington got on the board first with Nick Wardon scoring on an RBI single from Wagner Lagrange in the bottom of the first.
Football
Colin Kaepernick, who last played professional football in 2016 — the year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice — was scheduled to work out for Las Vegas, league sources said. It will mark Kaepernick’s first workout with an NFL team since being exiled, and it will be the first time the former star quarterback visits with a team since he flew to Seattle to meet with the Seahawks in May 2017 before they passed on the opportunity to sign him.
• Lamar Jackson is missing the first week of the Baltimore Ravens’ organized team activities, marking the first time that the former NFL MVP quarterback hasn’t been present at the voluntary spring workouts.
• Coming off one of his best seasons, Jadeveon Clowney re-signed with
Cleveland to once again chase quarterbacks alongside All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett. Clowney agreed to terms on a contract worth up to $11 million last week. He’s now back on the roster as the team continues its offseason program.
Basketball
The Indiana Fever fired coach Marianne Stanley with the team off to a 2-7 start in her third season and promoted assistant Carlos Knox to interim coach. Stanley, 68, brought a Hall of Fame resume to the Fever bench, but her teams won just 14 games in a little more than two seasons.
“With this new group of players, it is time for our organization to go in a different direction,” interim general manager Lin Dunn said.
Soccer
Hany Mukhtar right footed a shot from a difficult angle into bottom left corner of the net to provide the game winner for visiting Nashville SC in the 89th minute of a 2-1 win against Louisville in the MLS.
• NBC Sports averaged 507,000 viewers per match window for its Premier League coverage, making this the second-most watched season since the network began airing games in August 2013.
• Roman Abramovich’s 19year ownership of Chelsea is ending after the British government approved the sale of the Premier League club by the sanctioned Russian oligarch to a consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly.