Herzog guided Cardinals to World Series win
Whitey Herzog, the gruff and ingenious hall of fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title in the 1980s and perfected an intricate, nail-biting strategy known as Whiteyball, has died. He was 92.
Under Herzog, the Cards won pennants in 1982, 1985 and 1987, and the World Series in 1982. Herzog also managed the Kansas City Royals to division titles from 1976-78.
Overall, Herzog was a manager for 18 seasons, compiling a record of 1,281 wins and 1,125 losses. He was named manager of the year in 1985 and voted into the hall by the veterans committee in 2010.
Veteran skip Brendan Bottcher is looking for teammates after parting ways with the crew he has led for the past two years.
Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert and coach Paul Webster made a joint announcement Tuesday on social media that they “have decided to make a change at the skip position.”
Edmonton's Bottcher joined forces with Kennedy, Gallant and Hebert, all former Olympians, in April 2022. They finished third at the last two Canadian men's championships.
“Brendan was a fantastic teammate and a good friend and it wasn't specifically anything that happened. There wasn't a moment,” Kennedy said from his home near Edmonton.
“It's just that we put our team together to try to win some big stuff. A couple of us are on a bit of a time constraint here when it comes to our careers, and we just had to ask ourselves, `Is this the current lineup that's going to go out there and win some big championships?' We had some question marks.”
Boston University's Macklin Celebrini remained the top North American skater in the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's final rankings released Tuesday ahead of the 2024 entry draft.
Celebrini, a 17-year-old freshman from North Vancouver, B.C., led the Terriers with 32 goals and 32 assists in 38 games this past season en route to winning the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the NCAA'S top men's hockey player.
Defenceman Artyom Levshunov (Belarus, NCAA), centre Cayden Lindstrom (Dawson Creek, B.C., WHL), defenceman Zeev Buium (San Diego, NCAA) and defenceman Zayne Parekh (Markham, Ont., OHL) round out the top 5 North American-based skaters in the final rankings.
Montreal's Felix Augeraliassime narrowly defeated Germany's Maximilian Marterer 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), and 7-6 (3) in the first round of the Bavarian International Tennis Championships on Tuesday.
Auger-aliassime, ranked 34th in the world, now holds a record of 10-9 this season.
He will next face Japan's Taro Daniel.