The Tampa Bay Rays are dedicating their annual Pride Night to the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando.
The team announced Tuesday that open seats for Friday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants will be available for $5. All proceeds will benefit the Pulse Victims Fund, which has been set up for the families of the victims.
Everyone in attendance will receive a “We Are Orlando” T-shirt.
OneBlood will hold blood drives at Tropicana Field Friday and Saturday. The national anthem and “God Bless America” will be performed by Una Voce, the Florida Men’s Chorale.
Billy Bean, who is Major League Baseball’s Vice President of Social Responsibility and Inclusion, will throw the ceremonial first pitch.
The Washington Nationals have placed closer Jonathan Papelbon on the 15-day disabled list with a right intercostal strain and reinstated right-handed reliever Matt Belisle following a rehabilitation assignment.
Manager Dusty Baker said Papelbon’s injury occurred while the right-hander was warming up Sunday, when he pitched one inning against the Phillies. He allowed a go-ahead home run to former teammate Maikel Franco before Washington rallied for a 5-4 win.
Baker didn’t have a timetable for Papelbon’s return.
Shawn Kelly got the final five outs in Monday night’s 4-1 win over the Cubs for his first save.
Papelbon is 1-2 with a 3.28 ERA and 16 saves. The 35-year-old heads to the DL for the first time in his career.
The 36-year-old Belisle rejoins Washington after missing 45 games with a right calf strain. He pitched 11 innings on a rehab assignment, with a 4.09 ERA in nine games with three teams.
New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis insists he’s unfazed by critics who suggest he might have lost a step, saying he plans to keep playing “until the wheels fall off, hopefully.”
Revis had offseason surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist, but says during minicamp Tuesday that it is healing well and he expects to be ready to participate at the start of training camp late next month. He has been unable to practice so far this offseason because of the wrist, which was injured early last season.
Revis remains one of the top players at his position. He turns 31 on July 14, and some fans and media suggested he might no longer be an elite cornerback. He says those are opinions and won’t change his approach or how he views himself.
Dallas running back Darren McFadden fractured his right elbow in an accident at home and will likely be sidelined at the start of training camp.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said the accident happened during Memorial Day weekend, and McFadden returned for voluntary workouts last week. Garrett said the fracture was discovered during a physical before the mandatory minicamp that started Tuesday.
McFadden, who had surgery Tuesday, was fourth in the NFL in rushing last season with 1,089 yards. Garrett said McFadden would be out “at least a couple of months.”
Dallas drafted former Ohio State star Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth overall pick in the draft and also signed free agent Alfred Morris, who made the Pro Bowl twice in Washington.
The Detroit Red Wings and the family of hockey legend Gordie Howe are encouraging fans to attend a public visitation at Joe Louis Arena.
Mark Howe says in a release Monday that his father “always had a special connection with the fans, so it was important to us to allow the public into the funeral service because it’s the way he would have done it.”
Gordie Howe died Friday at the age of 88. He led the Red Wings to four Stanley Cups during his 25 years with the team.
The public visitation is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. The Howe family will greet the public at the arena. Gordie Howe’s body will lie in state inside the arena bowl.
The publisher and author of escort Katina Powell’s book alleging that former Louisville men’s basketball staffer Andre McGee hired her and other dancers for sex parties at the Cardinals’ dormitory have countersued Louisville students, saying they attempted to “extort” a monetary settlement in their action alleging Powell and the book devalued their education.
Indianapolis-based IBJ Book Publishing LLC and Dick Cady filed suit last Friday in Jefferson Circuit Court, alleging the students sought notoriety for themselves and their attorneys and lacked proof of their allegations. A judge dismissed the students’ suit in April but allowed another to proceed by six women who allege they were wrongly named in the book.
The students’ co-counsel, Nader George Shunnarah, said Tuesday “that when all is said and done, we will be vindicated.”
Interim Brazilian President Michel Temer and IOC President Thomas Bach are visiting Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park, less than two months before the start of the games.
Tuesday’s visit marked the first time Bach has met with Temer, the vice president who assumed the presidency last month when President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and suspended.
In recent weeks Temer has stepped up his pledges of support for the Olympics, which have been beset by a series of problems including the ongoing political crisis, Brazil’s worst recession in decades and an outbreak of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in infants.
Bach is in Brazil through Thursday. The Rio Games run from Aug. 5-21.
The woman who set the U.S. record for hammer throw will have that result thrown out after receiving a three-month doping ban for using a banned asthma medication.
Gwen Berry’s throw of 250 feet, 4 inches from last month will be erased from the record book, but she will still be eligible for Olympic trials next month. Her suspension, announced Monday by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, ends June 29.
Berry acknowledged using an inhaler containing Vilanterol Trifenatate during the U.S. Indoor championships in March in Portland, Oregon.
USADA handed down the three-month sanction after determining Berry was using the medication to treat asthma, and not to enhance performance.
Maria Sharapova has appealed her two-year doping ban to the highest court in sports, seeking a ruling ahead of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Sharapova is seeking to overturn or reduce the suspension imposed by the International Tennis Federation last week after the Russian tested positive for meldonium at the Australian Open in January.
CAS says both sides agreed to an “expedited procedure” and the court would issue its ruling by July 18. That would mean that, if the suspension is thrown out, Sharapova could compete at the Rio Games.
CAS says it hasn’t decided whether to hold a hearing or not.