Raiders receive encouraging news on Garoppolo’s injury
The Las Vegas Raiders received encouraging news on Jimmy Garoppolo's back injury.
However coach Josh McDaniels said Monday he didn't know if the quarterback would be healthy enough to play at Chicago on Sunday.
Garoppolo was injured in Sunday's 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots, and McDaniels said he was examined to see if “there was an internal issue.”
“It seems like we dodged a bullet in that regard, so that's good news,” McDaniels said. “We're still doing a couple of things this morning, and we'll make sure we do all the right things here as we go forward. But the prognosis is a lot better than it might otherwise have been.”
If Garoppolo doesn't play against the Bears, McDaniels can turn to Brian Hoyer or Aidan O'Connell.
Meanwhiule Chicago quarterback Justin Fields will likely miss at least one game because of a dislocated right thumb, coach Matt Eberflus said Monday.
Eberflus said it's “doubtful” Fields plays this week when the Bears (1-5) host the Las Vegas Raiders after he was injured in Sunday's 19-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Rookie Tyson Bagent
figures to start in his place.
MLB Marlins GM decides to leave the team
The Miami Marlins have announced Kim Ng is leaving the team after three seasons as general manager.
The 54-year-old Ng became the majors' highest-ranking woman in baseball operations and the first female GM in the four major North American professional sports leagues in a groundbreaking hire in November 2020.
The Marlins exercised their team option for her to return for the 2024 season, but Ng declined her mutual option. Marlins chairman and principal owner Bruce Sherman announced her departure on Monday.
Olympics: Five sports were finally added to the 2028 Los Angeles Games by the International Olympic Committee on Monday with baseball-softball, lacrosse, cricket, flag football and squash confirmed for the program.
The slate of sports proposed by Los Angeles officials one week ago and recommended by the IOC executive board on Friday cleared a final hurdle Monday from the Olympic body's full membership.
All five were voted in as a single package with two “no” votes from about 90 IOC members in the room in Mumbai, India.
Cricket was elevated to Olympic status for the first time since 1900 in one of the hotpots of the sport where the IOC is holding annual meetings while India hosts the sport's World Cup.
College football: Brock Bowers, the dynamic tight end for No. 1 Georgia and one of the nation's most versatile offensive players, is likely to be sidelined at least a month after sustaining a high ankle sprain that requires surgery. Georgia announced that Bowers, from Napa, would have surgery on his left ankle on Monday, two days after he hobbled off the field in the first half of a 37-20 victory at Vanderbilt.