IN BRIEF
COLLINS STEPS DOWN AS METS MANAGER
Terry Collins is leaving as manager of the New York Mets after seven seasons. He made the announcement after Sunday’s 11-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. “I wouldn’t say I’m resigning; I’m stepping down for sure,” he said. “It’s been a blast. But it’s time.” Collins and Phillies manager
Pete Mackanin hugged after exchanging lineups at home plate before the game. Mackanin is also out as manager. Collins, 68, said he’d take a Mets front office job.
YANKEES’ NET EXPANSION
Protective netting is being expanded at Yankee Stadium, beginning with the 2018 season. During Sunday’s regular-season finale, the Yankees announced to their fans that the organization planned to “significantly expand the protective netting during the upcoming offseason” both at the Stadium and at Steinbrenner Field, their spring training home in Tampa.
UTEP COACH STEPS DOWN
Texas-El Paso football coach
Sean Kugler has resigned after a
0-5 start. Kugler stepped down Sunday, a day after the Miners’
35-21 loss at Army. This was Kugler’s fifth season at his alma mater. He leaves with an 18-36 record, including an 11-22 mark in Conference USA play. His best season was in 2014, when the Miners were 7-6 and played in the New Mexico Bowl. UTEP didn’t immediately name an interim coach.
TORRENCE WINS AT GATEWAY
Top Fuel points leader Steve Torrence won the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals on Sunday at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Ill., for his eighth victory of 2017. He had a 3.684-second pass at 329.34 to beat Doug Kalitta. Ron Capps won in Funny Car, Greg Ander
son in Pro Stock and LE Tonglet in Pro Stock Motorcycle in the third of six playoff events in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown.
SCHERZER: JUST A TWEAK
Washington Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer says an MRI on his right hamstring shows he just tweaked it and did not strain the muscle. Scherzer said Sunday that he does not think the leg is- sue is a big deal and that he is able to run. The two-time Cy Young Award winner left in the fourth inning Saturday after feeling something in his hamstring on a change-up. Scherzer said it’s too soon to say whether he would be available able to pitch Friday in Game 1 of National League East champion Washington’s Division Series against the World Series champion Chicago Cubs.
ATTENDANCE WAS .... ZERO
Barcelona’s Spanish league soccer game against Las Palmas went ahead Sunday without fans at Camp Nou Stadium amid a controversial referendum on Catalonia’s independence. Barcelona made the closed-doors announcement with less than a half-hour to kickoff, with thou- sands of fans waiting outside the stadium. Barcelona wanted the game to be postponed, but it said the Spanish league refused.
LPGA: HENDERSON WINS
Brooke Henderson won the weather-delayed New Zealand Women’s Open on Monday in Auckland, finishing off a 3-underpar 69 for a five-stroke victory. The 20-year-old Canadian led by four shots through six holes Sunday when the final round was suspended after a day of heavy rain, high wind and threatened lightning strikes. She returned Monday and easily held off China’s
Jing Yan for her second LPGA tour victory of the season.