Sports In Brief for Tuesday, August 3
OBIT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corridor of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones supplied the soundtrack of summer time whereas entertaining and informing Dodgers followers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night time, the workforce mentioned. He was 94.
Scully died at his residence within the Hidden Hills part of Los Angeles, based on the workforce, which spoke to members of the family.
Because the longest tenured broadcaster with a single workforce in professional sports activities historical past, Scully noticed all of it and known as all of it. He started within the Nineteen Fifties period of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the Nineteen Sixties with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the Nineteen Seventies with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and thru the Eighties with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela. Within the Nineties, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, adopted by Clayton Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig within the twenty first century.
The Dodgers modified gamers, managers, executives, house owners — and even coasts — however Scully and his soothing, insightful type remained a relentless for the followers.
NFL
The NFL has suspended Miami Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross and fined him $1.5 million for tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton following a six-month investigation stemming from Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit in opposition to the league.
The league’s investigation discovered the Dolphins didn’t deliberately lose video games throughout the 2019 season however the workforce had impermissible communication with Brady and his agent, Don Yee. The league introduced the findings of the investigation on Tuesday.
The Dolphins will forfeit a first-round choice within the 2023 NFL draft and a third-round choice within the 2024 draft. Ross is suspended by means of Oct. 17. He might not be current on the workforce’s facility and should not symbolize the membership at any workforce or NFL occasion. He additionally might not attend any league assembly earlier than the annual assembly in 2023, and he’s faraway from all league committees indefinitely.
Dolphins vice chairman/restricted associate Bruce Beal was fined $500,000 and should not attend any league assembly for the rest of the 12 months.
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Saints second-year receiver Kawaan Baker is dealing with a six-game suspension for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug coverage, the league introduced on Tuesday.
The assertion from the NFL mentioned Baker is eligible to take part in all preseason practices and video games, and shall be allowed to return to the Saints’ energetic roster on Oct. 17, following New Orleans Week 6 residence sport in opposition to Cincinnati.
Baker, who performed in faculty for South Alabama, was New Orleans’ seventh-round draft selection in 2021. He spent the majority of his first NFL marketing campaign on the Saints’ follow squad. Baker performed in late-season video games in opposition to Miami and Carolina, making one deal with on particular groups. He didn’t play any offensive snaps.
This season, the Saints anticipate having a a lot deeper receiver group with the return of Michael Thomas from harm, together with the additions of free agent Jarvis Landry and first-round draft selection Chris Olave out of Ohio State. The Saints additionally introduced again veteran Tre’Quan Smith.
Baker has the choice to enchantment, but it surely was not instantly clear if he supposed to take action.
BASEBALL
CHICAGO (AP) — Juan Soto is becoming a member of Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. in San Diego. Jorge López, Michael Fulmer and Tyler Mahle are going to Minnesota. Noah Syndergaard, David Robertson and Brandon Marsh are heading to Philadelphia, and Joey Gallo is in search of a recent begin with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Baseball’s commerce deadline day was an action-packed affair — 27 trades in all — and nobody had extra enjoyable than the Padres.
San Diego made the largest splash, buying Soto in a large cope with the Washington Nationals. The sweet-swinging Soto, nonetheless simply 23 years outdated, joins Machado in the course of the Padres’ order, and Tatis is on his method again after being sidelined by a damaged left wrist.
The Cardinals and Yankees swapped huge leaguers, with Gold Glove-winning heart fielder Harrison Bader going to New York in trade for left-handed starter Jordan Montgomery. The Atlanta Braves equipped for his or her title protection by sending former nearer Will Smith to the Houston Astros for right-hander Jake Odorizzi, after which buying reliever Raisel Iglesias in a cope with the Los Angeles Angels.
The Toronto Blue Jays bought second baseman Whit Merrifield in a commerce with Kansas Metropolis — it’s unclear if Merrifield plans to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 with a purpose to play in Canada — and fortified their bullpen by including Anthony Bass and Zach Pop in a cope with the Miami Marlins. The Brewers added reliever Trevor Rosenthal in a commerce with San Francisco.
TENNIS
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —4-time main champion Naomi Osaka received the primary match she’s performed since Might, beating Zheng Qinwen 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 on Tuesday night time on the Mubadala Silicon Valley Traditional.
Osaka hit 11 aces and saved 7 of 8 break factors within the hard-court match that serves as a tuneup for the U.S. Open.
Osaka had not performed wherever since a first-round loss to Amanda Anisimova on the French Open on Might 23.
The previous No. 1-ranked participant was bothered by her left Achilles tendon throughout that defeat, then cited that lingering harm when she pulled out of Wimbledon in June.
Osaka received the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2020.
Subsequent up for Osaka is Coco Gauff, who received her match 6-0, 6-1 over Anhelina Kalinina. Osaka leads their head-to-head sequence 2-1, together with a victory over Gauff on the 2019 U.S. Open. Gauff was the runner-up at this 12 months’s French Open.
