Ticats coach suspended, fined
Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Kent Austin has been suspended for one game and fined $10,000 for making contact with an official during a game last week. Austin, who also serves as the Ticats’ vice-president of football operations, will be barred from the sidelines for Hamilton’s game against visiting Calgary on Saturday. He will be allowed in the spotter’s booth. This marks the first time in CFL history that a coach has been prevented from being with his team on the sidelines for a game.
Rose appeals to Hall of Fame
Pete Rose has appealed directly to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in an effort to restore his eligibility to be elected. Rose’s attorney Raymond Genco argues the career hits leader’s ban for gambling was not intended to make him ineligible. The Hall changed its bylaws two years after Rose’s banishment to make banned players ineligible.
Olympic boxers bet on Rio fights
Three Olympic boxers — including one who bet on himself to lose — have received “severe reprimands” for betting on fights at the Rio Games. Ireland’s Michael Conlan and Steve Donnelly and Britain’s Antony Fowler were censured by the International Olympic Committee for violating anti-betting rules. None of the three won medals, although Conlan lost in the quarter-finals in a disputed decision to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin. Donnelly bet against himself in a firstround bout but still won.
Fernandez fans gather for service
The Miami Marlins held a public memorial service Wednesday for pitcher Jose Fernandez, who was killed in a weekend boat crash along with two friends. Fans gathered along the west side of Marlins Park for the departure of a funeral motorcade at 2:16 p.m. A public viewing was held at St. Brendan’s Catholic Church during the evening. A private funeral will be held Thursday. Instead of flowers, the family asks for charitable contributions to the JDF16 Foundation.
2017 Canadian GP remains in doubt
The Canadian Grand Prix has an asterisk beside its name on a provisional 2017 Formula One race schedule released Wednesday. The schedule still has 21 races listed, but the stops in Canada, Germany and Brazil are still to be approved by the sports governing body FIA. The Canadian Grand Prix is scheduled for June 11 at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, but doubts about its future arose last June when F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone questioned whether organizers could fulfil their promise to upgrade the circuit’s pit and paddock areas, grandstands and medical centre by 2017.