Events and Attractions
Spotted: World Series draws notable names
Games 1 and 2 of the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series drew a wide range of notable names to the Rogers Centre on Friday and Saturday. Spotted at Game 1 were Pregame performers Pharrell Williams and Voices of Fire; Fox Sports President Eric Shanks; musical artists Drake, Nelly Furtado and Eladio Carrio...
Expensive room with field view available for World Series Game 1
TORONTO -- A quick search of the Marriott website revealed that a room with a field view is available for Game 1 of the World Series Friday. But it will cost you. One guest room with a King Bed and a Baseball Stadium view at the Marriott Toronto City Centre within Rogers Centre was going for C$10,38...
Double duty: Ohtani ready to debut dual act on MLB’s brightest stage
The Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series is “shaping into a celebration of the most singular act in modern baseball” -- Dodgers DH/P Shohei Ohtani, according to Dylan Hernández of the L.A. TIMES. The questions over Ohtani playing both ways “have subsided, if not disappeared entirely” after Game 4 of the N...
NHL confirms 2027 All-Star Game on Long Island
The NHL confirmed plans to hold its 2027 All-Star Weekend at UBS Arena on Long Island, making up for its prior cancellation of the 2026 edition the Islanders were set to host. The festivities are scheduled for Feb. 5-7, with ABC and ESPN providing coverage. The league also confirmed it no longer pla...
Armed Forces Classic moved from Germany to Annapolis amid shutdown
UConn women’s basketball “will be opening the 2025-26 season in Annapolis, Maryland, instead of Germany‚” as the 2025 Armed Forces Classic “has officially been relocated from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany to the U.S. Naval Academy due to the ongoing government shutdown.” ESPN “was waiting until M...
Sportsnet breaks new ground with ‘made-in-Canada’ World Series broadcast
Sportsnet will “produce the first-ever made-in-Canada World Series broadcasts” for its home audience, and as “national sentiment continues to crest,” network execs are “looking to capitalize on a rare instance in which millions of Canadians are united in their support of a single sports team,” accor...
Ticketmaster faces backlash as World Series ticket resale prices soar
Fans are seeing “prices in the thousands of dollars” for tickets to Games 1 and 2 of the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series, leading to many sharing their “frustrations by ranting and directing profanity at Ticketmaster on social media,” according to Spiro Papuckoski of the TORONTO SUN. Face-value ticke...
Aloha means goodbye? PGA Tour weighs future of Hawaii swing
There have been “no final decisions made about the future of” The Sentry nor Sony Open, but the PGA Tour “appears to be assessing all its options -- and has been clear about the built-in challenges that come with hosting pro events in Hawaii,” according to Dylan Dethier of GOLF. There is a “long tra...
Serie A urged to drop plans for regular-season match in Australia
Pressure group Football Supporters Europe has called on Serie A to follow the lead of La Liga and “drop plans to stage a regular season match” between AC Milan and Como 1907 in the Australian city of Perth early next year, according to Nick Mulvenney of REUTERS. La Liga on Tuesday announced it had “...
ATP Tour, SURJ announce new Masters 1000 tournament in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s growing investment in tennis has a new crown jewel.
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Honestly, the salary cap stuff makes absolutely no sense. No matter how you look at it, it makes absolutely no sense. … A salary cap means that we get a share of the revenue. Billionaires are very good at hiding revenue.-- Blue Jays P and MLBPA subcommittee member Chris Bassitt, on the prospects of a salary cap in MLB.
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