Kruk Replacing Francona, John Kruk is following Bobby Valentine and Terry Francona into ESPN’s Sunday night baseball booth.
Is he going to emulate them and wind up managing a major league team in 2014?
“I think that is why they are putting me in the booth,” Kruk said before adding: “Ain’t no chance of that happening.”
A member of ESPN’s studio team since 2004, the three-time All-Star was announced yesterday as the new partner of Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser, giving ESPN a different trio for the third straight season after 21 consecutive years with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. Buster Olney remains as the crew’s reporter.Baseball
Diamondbacks sell pitcher Bergesen to Japanese team
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Arizona Diamondbacks sold right-hander Brad Bergesen to the Chunichi Dragons in Japan.
The 27-year-old Bergesen was 2-1 with a 3.64 ERA in 19 games with Arizona last season. He also pitched 22 games in the Baltimore system with Triple-A Norfolk before the Diamondbacks claimed him on waivers on July 20.
Baseball
Ruppert, O’Day, White elected to Hall of Fame
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, longtime umpire Hank O’Day and barehanded catcher Deacon White have been elected to the baseball Hall of Fame for their excellence through the first half of the 20th century.
The trio was picked by the Hall’s pre-integration committee. The announcement was made yesterday at the winter meetings.
Induction ceremonies will be held July 28.
Baseball
A-Rod needs hip surgery, will miss season’s start
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The New York Yankees said Alex Rodriguez will have surgery on his left hip and will miss the start of the season and possibly the entire first half.
Rodriguez has a torn labrum, bone impingement and a cyst, the team said yesterday. The Yankees said he will need to follow a pre-surgery program over the next four to six weeks and the team anticipates he will be sidelined four to six months. That timetable projects to a return between the start of May and mid-July.
A-Rod had right hip surgery on March 9, 2009, and returned that May 8. The Yankees said this operation will be “similar but not identical.”
NFL
Reid names QB Foles starter for rest of season
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid said rookie Nick Foles will be the starting quarterback even when Michael Vick returns from a concussion.
Reid made the announcement yesterday after Foles had his best performance in a 38-33 loss at Dallas on Sunday night. Foles, a third-round pick, has started the last three games since Vick was injured on Nov. 11.
The Eagles (3-9) have lost eight straight games. Reid cited the team’s record and Vick’s health as the reasons for his decision.
College football
Manziel, Te’o and Klein named Heisman finalists
NEW YORK – Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.
Manziel is the favorite to win college football’s most famous player of the year award when it is presented Saturday night in New York. He would be the first freshman to win the Heisman and the first Texas A&M player since halfback John David Crow won the school’s only Heisman in 1957.
Te’o is trying to become the first defense-only player to win a Heisman and the eighth player from Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish have had seven Heisman winners, tied for the most, but none since Tim Brown in 1987.
Klein would be the first player from Kansas State to win the Heisman.
College football
Spurrier gets 2-year extension at South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Steve Spurrier received a two-year contract extension that will keep him at South Carolina through 2017.
The university’s board of trustees approved the extension yesterday. There was no salary increase in the deal. Spurrier is scheduled to again earn $3.3 million in 2013.
A year ago, trustees gave Spurrier two additional years on the contract after the football season, then voted him a raise of $475,000 this past February to his current salary.
Spurrier has led the Gamecocks to consecutive seasons with double-digit victories, a first in program history. No. 11 South Carolina finished 6-2 in the Southeastern Conference for a second straight year. Spurrier became the school’s all-time victories leader with his 65th win when the Gamecocks defeated Clemson on Nov. 24.
Soccer
Morgan wins female athlete of year award
CHICAGO – Forward Alex Morgan won the U.S. Soccer Federation’s female athlete of the year award.
The national team star won voting that was weighted equally between fans on Facebook, and representatives from U.S. Soccer and the national media, the federation announced yesterday.
Morgan led Team USA this year with 28 goals, including the deciding score in the 123rd minute of the United States’ 4-3 win over Canada in the Olympic semifinals. The Americans then won the gold medal.
Morgan is also on the short list for FIFA’s Golden Ball award as top player in the world.
The young female athlete of the year award went to under-20 national team defender Julie Johnston.
MLS
Real Salt Lake trades Espindola, Olave to N.Y.
SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake traded top veterans Fabían Espíndola and Jámison Olave to the New York Red Bulls in exchange for an undisclosed amount of allocation money. The Utah club announced the deal yesterday.
The 27-year-old Espindola was an MLS All-Star in 2012. He started 104 games for Real Salt Lake and registered 35 goals and 17 assists.
The 31-year-old Olave appeared in 119 games and was 2010 MLS Defender of the Year.
Olympics
Utah announces bid for second Winter Games
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah officials plan to make another bid to hold the Winter Olympics.
Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker made the announcement yesterday outside the University of Utah stadium, where ceremonies were held for the 2002 Winter Games.
A committee of advisers urged Herbert and Becker to make what could be a longshot bid for the 2026 Winter Games – other U.S. cities could argue it’s their turn. Salt Lake faces possible challenges from Denver and the Reno-Tahoe area.
Utah says it can capitalize on the infrastructure left in place from the 2002 Olympics. The Utah games were successful, but Salt Lake was tarnished by scandal.
Utah showered $1 million in cash, gifts and other favors on International Olympic Committee delegates in a scandal that rewrote the rule book for Olympic bids.
Cycling
LeMond wants to run UCI after Armstrong scandal
LONDON – Greg LeMond says the president of the International Cycling Union can’t remain in his job while a panel examines possible links between the organization and the doping case involving Lance Armstrong.
The three-time Tour de France winner said after Change Cycling Now’s first meeting that he would be willing to run cycling in the interim.
“I would love to be part of the process of change and if that means as interim president then I would be willing to do that,” LeMond said. “I said if we can’t find anyone more qualified, I will do whatever I can to help change the sport. I am definitely not pushing myself … cycling needs radical change, it needs new leadership.”
Before the Change Cycling Now meeting in London, the UCI announced Friday that a three-man panel will scrutinize President Pat McQuaid and his predecessor Hein Verbruggen over their relations with Armstrong.
Is he going to emulate them and wind up managing a major league team in 2014?
“I think that is why they are putting me in the booth,” Kruk said before adding: “Ain’t no chance of that happening.”
A member of ESPN’s studio team since 2004, the three-time All-Star was announced yesterday as the new partner of Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser, giving ESPN a different trio for the third straight season after 21 consecutive years with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. Buster Olney remains as the crew’s reporter.Baseball
Diamondbacks sell pitcher Bergesen to Japanese team
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Arizona Diamondbacks sold right-hander Brad Bergesen to the Chunichi Dragons in Japan.
The 27-year-old Bergesen was 2-1 with a 3.64 ERA in 19 games with Arizona last season. He also pitched 22 games in the Baltimore system with Triple-A Norfolk before the Diamondbacks claimed him on waivers on July 20.
Baseball
Ruppert, O’Day, White elected to Hall of Fame
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, longtime umpire Hank O’Day and barehanded catcher Deacon White have been elected to the baseball Hall of Fame for their excellence through the first half of the 20th century.
The trio was picked by the Hall’s pre-integration committee. The announcement was made yesterday at the winter meetings.
Induction ceremonies will be held July 28.
Baseball
A-Rod needs hip surgery, will miss season’s start
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The New York Yankees said Alex Rodriguez will have surgery on his left hip and will miss the start of the season and possibly the entire first half.
Rodriguez has a torn labrum, bone impingement and a cyst, the team said yesterday. The Yankees said he will need to follow a pre-surgery program over the next four to six weeks and the team anticipates he will be sidelined four to six months. That timetable projects to a return between the start of May and mid-July.
A-Rod had right hip surgery on March 9, 2009, and returned that May 8. The Yankees said this operation will be “similar but not identical.”
NFL
Reid names QB Foles starter for rest of season
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Eagles Coach Andy Reid said rookie Nick Foles will be the starting quarterback even when Michael Vick returns from a concussion.
Reid made the announcement yesterday after Foles had his best performance in a 38-33 loss at Dallas on Sunday night. Foles, a third-round pick, has started the last three games since Vick was injured on Nov. 11.
The Eagles (3-9) have lost eight straight games. Reid cited the team’s record and Vick’s health as the reasons for his decision.
College football
Manziel, Te’o and Klein named Heisman finalists
NEW YORK – Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.
Manziel is the favorite to win college football’s most famous player of the year award when it is presented Saturday night in New York. He would be the first freshman to win the Heisman and the first Texas A&M player since halfback John David Crow won the school’s only Heisman in 1957.
Te’o is trying to become the first defense-only player to win a Heisman and the eighth player from Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish have had seven Heisman winners, tied for the most, but none since Tim Brown in 1987.
Klein would be the first player from Kansas State to win the Heisman.
College football
Spurrier gets 2-year extension at South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Steve Spurrier received a two-year contract extension that will keep him at South Carolina through 2017.
The university’s board of trustees approved the extension yesterday. There was no salary increase in the deal. Spurrier is scheduled to again earn $3.3 million in 2013.
A year ago, trustees gave Spurrier two additional years on the contract after the football season, then voted him a raise of $475,000 this past February to his current salary.
Spurrier has led the Gamecocks to consecutive seasons with double-digit victories, a first in program history. No. 11 South Carolina finished 6-2 in the Southeastern Conference for a second straight year. Spurrier became the school’s all-time victories leader with his 65th win when the Gamecocks defeated Clemson on Nov. 24.
Soccer
Morgan wins female athlete of year award
CHICAGO – Forward Alex Morgan won the U.S. Soccer Federation’s female athlete of the year award.
The national team star won voting that was weighted equally between fans on Facebook, and representatives from U.S. Soccer and the national media, the federation announced yesterday.
Morgan led Team USA this year with 28 goals, including the deciding score in the 123rd minute of the United States’ 4-3 win over Canada in the Olympic semifinals. The Americans then won the gold medal.
Morgan is also on the short list for FIFA’s Golden Ball award as top player in the world.
The young female athlete of the year award went to under-20 national team defender Julie Johnston.
MLS
Real Salt Lake trades Espindola, Olave to N.Y.
SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake traded top veterans Fabían Espíndola and Jámison Olave to the New York Red Bulls in exchange for an undisclosed amount of allocation money. The Utah club announced the deal yesterday.
The 27-year-old Espindola was an MLS All-Star in 2012. He started 104 games for Real Salt Lake and registered 35 goals and 17 assists.
The 31-year-old Olave appeared in 119 games and was 2010 MLS Defender of the Year.
Olympics
Utah announces bid for second Winter Games
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah officials plan to make another bid to hold the Winter Olympics.
Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker made the announcement yesterday outside the University of Utah stadium, where ceremonies were held for the 2002 Winter Games.
A committee of advisers urged Herbert and Becker to make what could be a longshot bid for the 2026 Winter Games – other U.S. cities could argue it’s their turn. Salt Lake faces possible challenges from Denver and the Reno-Tahoe area.
Utah says it can capitalize on the infrastructure left in place from the 2002 Olympics. The Utah games were successful, but Salt Lake was tarnished by scandal.
Utah showered $1 million in cash, gifts and other favors on International Olympic Committee delegates in a scandal that rewrote the rule book for Olympic bids.
Cycling
LeMond wants to run UCI after Armstrong scandal
LONDON – Greg LeMond says the president of the International Cycling Union can’t remain in his job while a panel examines possible links between the organization and the doping case involving Lance Armstrong.
The three-time Tour de France winner said after Change Cycling Now’s first meeting that he would be willing to run cycling in the interim.
“I would love to be part of the process of change and if that means as interim president then I would be willing to do that,” LeMond said. “I said if we can’t find anyone more qualified, I will do whatever I can to help change the sport. I am definitely not pushing myself … cycling needs radical change, it needs new leadership.”
Before the Change Cycling Now meeting in London, the UCI announced Friday that a three-man panel will scrutinize President Pat McQuaid and his predecessor Hein Verbruggen over their relations with Armstrong.
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