GIANTS IN POSITION TO ACQUIRE STANTON
FRANCISCO» Giants general manager SAN Bobby Evans confirmed on San Francisco’s flagship radio station KNBR that the club has reached the parameters of a potential trade for Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
Evans said Giants executives gathered with the NL MVP and his representatives in “a good meeting” last week.
“The specifics of the deal are not something that we feel comfortable discussing, but ultimately our hope is that if he does choose to come here, we’ll be able to fold him in with a winning club,” Evans said Wednesday. “In terms of our deal it just has a number of contingencies, one of course that’s paramount is relative to his full no trade and that’s a decision that really comes from him. But our terms with the Marlins are clear.”
Marlins CEO Derek Jeter said Tuesday that Miami has not decided whether to trade Stanton, still owed $295 million over the final decade of his record $325 million, 13-year contract. When asked specifically about absorbing the majority of that contract, Evans didn’t address it.
Stanton is due to make $25 million in 2018 after he led the majors with 59 home runs and 132 RBIs this season.
• Free-agent left-hander Mike Minor agreed to a three-year contract with the Texas Rangers. Minor was 6-6 with a 2.55 ERA in 65 relief appearances last season with Kansas City.
Putin won’t stop Russian athletes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t boycott the Pyeongchang Olympics. Putin said his government will allow Russians to compete as neutral athletes at the upcoming games in South Korea.
The International Olympic Committee has banned the Russian team from games as punishment for doping violations at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The IOC, however, plans to invite individual Russians to compete under the Olympic flag.
Moon accused of sexual harassment.
Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon has been accused of sexual harassment by an assistant for his sports marketing firm, according to a lawsuit filed in California.
The civil lawsuit was filed on Monday in Orange County Superior Court. According to court documents, Wendy Haskell alleges Moon made “unwanted and unsolicited” sexual advances as part of her role as his assistant working for Sports 1 Marketing. Moon is the co-founder and president of the company.
The Washington Post first reported on the lawsuit. The 61-year-old Moon has been working as a radio commentator for the Seattle Seahawks. The team announced later Wednesday: “We have accepted Warren Moon’s request for a leave of absence as the club’s radio analyst.”
Former college, NFL coach Meyer dies.
TEXAS» Ron Meyer, the AUSTIN, football coach behind SMU’s famed “Pony Express” and the NFL’s infamous “Snowplow Game” between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins, died at the age of 76.
Meyer died Tuesday, and a memorial service is planned for Saturday.
His SMU Mustangs, led by running backs Eric Dickerson and Craig James, turned a middling program into a Southwest Conference champion that wound up getting the NCAA’s “death penalty” ruling for cheating. His order to have a stadium snowplow driver clear a spot for the gamewinning field goal against the Dolphins in 1982 is legendary.
Footnotes.
Charles J. Cella, who helped turn Oaklawn Park into a major racing destination in the South as a third-generation president of the Arkansas track and a thoroughbred owner himself, died at age 81 of complications from Parkinson’s disease at his home in St. Louis. … Merrill Robertson Jr., 37, a former University of Virginia and pro football player, was sentenced to 40 years for running a $10 million fraud scheme that victimized more than 50 investors.