The Toronto Blue Jays have moved infielder Santiago Espinal to the 10-day injured list with right hamstring inflammation, retroactive to May 21. Espinal suffered the injury in Saturday’s loss to the Orioles and had to be lifted from the game. He is hitting .205/.266/.274 with one home run in 25 games this season. In place of Espinal, the Blue Jays activated infielder Otto Lopez ahead of Monday’s series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays. Lopez appeared in eight MLB games with the Blue Jays last season and will replace Espinal as the team’s back up shortstop for the time being.…
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Canada’s Joe Veleno was suspended five games on Sunday for kicking Switzerland captain Nino Niederreiter at the world hockey championship. The incident occurred during Canada’s 3-2 loss to the Swiss on Saturday in Riga, Latvia. Veleno, who plays for the Detroit Red Wings, was seen stamping down on the leg and foot of Switzerland captain Nino Niederreiter at 8:48 of the second period. No penalty was assessed on the play to Vereno, though Niederreiter, a member of the Winnipeg Jets, was given a two-minute minor for his response against Vereno. “Canada’s National Men’s Team acknowledges the role of the committee…
Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has withdrawn from the clay-court French Open, organizers said Sunday. The 36-year-old British player lost in the 2016 final to Novak Djokovic and reached four other semifinals at Roland Garros in western Paris. Play begins there May 28 and the tournament will also be without record 14-time champion Rafael Nadal. The 36-year-old Spaniard announced on Thursday that his lingering hip injury still has not healed properly. An earlier report from British broadcaster BBC said Murray is skipping the French Open to prioritize Wimbledon, where he was won two of his majors on grass. Murray lost in…
The Tampa Bay Rays are drawing interest from potential buyers in and out of Tampa, according to Ken Rosenthal and Chandler Rome of The Athletic. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Rosenthal and Rome reported that the local buyer is Dan Doyle Jr., of the Tampa-based DEX Imaging. The Rays are also drawing interest from potential buyers looking to relocate the AL East franchise to a market suited for MLB expansion. Back in 2021, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said that he would consider an expansion fee in the range of $2.2 billion. Rosenthal and Rome further reported that current…
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Andrés Reyes and Cory Burke scored first-half goals to lead the New York Red Bulls to a 2-1 victory over CF Montreal on Saturday night. Reyes gave the Red Bulls (3-4-7) the lead in the 23rd minute with his second goal of the Major League Soccer season, scoring unassisted. Defender Joel Waterman answered six minutes later for Montreal (5-8-0) when he took a pass from George Campbell and scored for the first time this season to knot the score at 1-1. The Red Bulls regained the lead in the 38th minute on a goal by Burke.…
RIGA — Andres Ambuhl scored the game-winning goal as Switzerland defeated Canada 3-2 on Saturday to stay perfect at the men’s world hockey championship in Riga, Lativa. Nico Hischier and Dario Simion also scored for Switzerland, which has five regulation wins in as many games and leads Group B. Captain Tyler Toffoli and Michael Carcone scored the goals for Canada in the loss. Leonardo Genoni made 27 saves in the Swiss net, while Samuel Montembeault turned away 23 of 26 shots for the Canadians. Canada forward Joe Veleno stomped on the foot of Switzerland captain Nino Niederreiter at 8:48 of the…
The horror of nuclear war has been highlighted by world leaders attending the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has sought to use the G7 summit in Japan to highlight the horrors of nuclear war and promote his vision of a world without nuclear weapons. On Friday, G7 and European Union leaders visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which commemorates the victims of the atomic bomb that United States forces dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. At the museum, which contains graphic descriptions of the devastation wrought by the world’s first nuclear attack, the G7 leaders…
International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan is wanted for arrest in Russia over war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin.Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor who in March prepared a warrant for the arrest of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges, Russian media reported on Friday. Karim Khan, the prosecutor at the Hague-based war crimes court, was added to the Interior Ministry’s wanted list, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing the ministry’s database. A picture of the ICC prosecutor, who is a citizen of the United Kingdom,…
Training Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16 fighter jets will ‘greatly enhance our army in the sky’, President Zelenskyy said.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed United States President Joe Biden’s decision to support the training of Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16 fighter jets, saying it would “greatly enhance our army in the sky”. Describing the plans to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jet fighters as a “historic decision”, Zelenskyy said he would discuss the details with Biden when they meet at the G7 Summit in Japan’s Hiroshima city – the latest international trip by the Ukrainian leader, which was…
A federal judge in the United States has ruled that two major airlines must end their regional partnership in the country’s northeast within 30 days, citing the risk of higher fares and reduced competition. Friday’s decision, concerning American Airlines and JetBlue Airways, hands a victory to the US Justice Department, which sued in 2021 to block the “unprecedented domestic alliance” between the two carriers. In his ruling, District Judge for Massachusetts Leo Sorokin denounced the deal as entangling “JetBlue with American in a way that diminishes its status as an independent, low-cost player in the market”. He also echoed the…