Giants pick up option on Beckham’s contract

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The New York Giants have picked up the fifth-year option on receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s contract.

The Giants announced the move Thursday, hours before the NFL draft began.

In each of his first three seasons, Beckham has led the Giants in receptions, receiving yards and touchdown catches. The 2014 first-round draft pick is the first Giants player to make the Pro Bowl in his first three seasons since Hall of Famer linebacker Lawrence Taylor (1981-83).

Ground broken for Jackie Robinson Museum

NEW YORK - Ground has been broken in New York City for the Jackie Robinson Museum after a 10-year wait caused by the Great Recession.

Rachel Robinson, the wife of the trailblazing Hall of Famer, attended Thursday’s ceremony in the SoHo section of Manhattan along with her daughter, Sharon, and baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

About $23.5 million has been raised to build the museum, now scheduled to open in spring 2019. The Jackie Robinson Foundation hopes to raise a total of $42 million — matching Robinson’s uniform number — to fund an endowment that will pay for the museum’s operations.

Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He died in 1972.

Manfred: 2 groups still bidding on Marlins

NEW YORK - Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says two groups are still bidding to buy the Miami Marlins from Jeffrey Loria.

One of the groups includes former New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Speaking Thursday at the groundbreaking for the Jackie Robinson Museum, Manfred said: “There is no agreement in place. We’re working with more than one group.”

Asked for additional details, Manfred said: “we still have two groups involved in the process” and “there is not a signed document on any topic.” Regarding a timeline, he said, “the timeline is relatively short; it would be measured in days, not months.”

Hernandez’s estate currently worthless

BOSTON - Court records show the estate of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez currently has a dollar value of zero.

The former New England Patriots tight end took his own life last week in prison.

The Boston Herald reported that Hernandez’s fiancée and her lawyer said in an affidavit filed Wednesday in probate court that Hernandez’s estate is currently worth “$0.00” with “no monies available and no identifiable personal assets.”

But there is an offer to buy Hernandez’s house — worth nearly $1.3 million. The mother of a man Hernandez was convicted of killing in 2013 has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit seeking any proceeds from the sale.

Sharapova reaches quarterfinals

STUTTGART, Germany - Maria Sharapova advanced to the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix by beating Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-1 Thursday.