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Person with knowledge of deal: Major League Baseball, ESPN extend TV contract through 2021
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A person with knowledge of the deal says Major League Baseball and ESPN have extended their television contract through 2021.
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Red Sox 1B Gonzalez posts: ‘Excited to get back to Cali’ as deal with Dodgers moves closer
Adrian Gonzalez posts on his Twitter account that he’s headed from the Boston Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift among stars set for Stand Up to Cancer telethon
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – An A-list cast of celebrities is joining a telethon to raise money and awareness to fight cancer.
Melky Cabrera associate Juan Nunez banned from ballparks
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has banned Melky Cabrera associate Juan Nunez from all team clubhouses.
Giants outfielder Cabrera gets 50-game suspension for positive testosterone test
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera has been suspended for 50 games without pay after testing positive for testosterone.
AL Capsules: CC Sabathia fans 10 as N.Y. Yankees beat Seattle Mariners 6-3
NEW YORK, N.Y. – CC Sabathia pitched a three-hitter and struck out 10 leading New York to a 6-3 victory Friday night that stopped Seattle’s seven-game winning streak.
Yankees, Cubs, other MLB teams who had Facebook pages hacked
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Facebook pages of the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and several other Major League Baseball clubs have been restored after briefly being hacked.
AP News Break: Spending drops 11 per cent in Major League Baseball draft under new restrictions
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Spending by teams in baseball’s amateur draft dropped by 11 per cent in the first year of restrictions imposed by the new labour contract.
Hollywood-driven Stand Up to Cancer telethon returns in September to raise money, awareness
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A year after movie producer Laura Ziskin lost her life to cancer, the ambitious telethon she helped start to fight the disease will be back on the air.
Selig critical of film about Dominican prospects produced by Bobby Valentine
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has spoken to the Boston Red Sox with complaints over a film Bobby Valentine produced about Dominican prospects.
Time Warner’s Turner in talks to buy sports website Bleacher Report
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Turner Broadcasting System is in talks to buy San Francisco-based sports news website Bleacher Report in an attempt to expand its online presence.
Biden launches White House PSA on dating violence that features top athletes, President Obama
WASHINGTON – The White House is issuing a public service announcement against dating violence, combining the voices of President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden with those of top sports figures in a campaign to reduce assaults on women.
Most actively traded companies on the TSX, TSX Venture Exchange markets
TORONTO – Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Rogers Communications applies to bring MLB Network baseball channel to Canada
OTTAWA – Cable company Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B) has applied to the CRTC to bring the MLB Network baseball channel to Canada.