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BASEBALL: The Atlanta Braves are bringing back Marcell Ozuna, signing the slugger to a $65 million, fouryear contract. The deal includes a fifth-year club option for $16 million with a $1 million buyout.

TENNIS: Former Australian Open champions Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka withdrew from tuneup tournaments Saturday, two days before the year’s first tennis major begins at Melbourne Park. No. 3-ranked Osaka pulled out of her Gippsland Trophy semifinal against Elise Mertens, citing a “niggling injury.” Azarenka withdrew from the Grampians Trophy quarterfinal match against Anett Kontaveit with a lower back problem.

SOCCER: The United States’ under-24 team will open men’s Olympic soccer qualifying against Costa Rica on March 18 at the CONCACAF tournament in Guadalajara, Mexico. The revised schedule announced Friday by the Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Football represents roughly a one-year postponement from the original tournament, delayed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S., which failed to qualify for the 2012 and 2016 men’s Olympic soccer tournaments, plays the Dominican Republic on March 21 and completes Group A on March 24 against host Mexico. Group B includes Canada, Haiti, Honduras and El Salvador.

OBITUARY: Julio Canani, who trained three Breeders’ Cup winners and thoroughbred racing’s 2-year-old Eclipse champion filly in 2004, died Friday after a long illness. His daughter Lisa gave his age as 83, although Canani’s birthdate is listed as Nov. 13, 1938, which would have made him 82.