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Major League Baseball permanently banned San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano on Tuesday for placing hundreds of bets on baseball, including wagers on the Pittsburgh Pirates when he was a member of the team last season. MLB’s Department of Investigations found Marcano placed 387 baseball bets, including 231 MLB-related bets, through a legal sportsbook in 2022 and 2023, the league said. The Department of Investigations found all four players placed MLB-related bets while in the minors. MLB said a legal sports betting operator informed the league in March that it had “identified past baseball betting activity” from accounts connected to multiple players. He placed 29 baseball bets, including 28 MLB-related bets and one parlay bet on college baseball games in 2021 and 2022, the league said.
Persons: Tucupita Marcano, Marcano, Pete Rose, Rob Manfred, Michael Kelly, Jay Groome, José Rodriguez, Andrew Saalfrank —, , Kelly —, Marcano hadn’t, Kelly, Groome, Rodríguez, Saalfrank, Zac BonDurant Organizations: Major League Baseball, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, MLB’s Department of Investigations, MLB, Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Major League, Oakland Athletics, Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Department, Investigations, , A’s, Marcano, Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, Triple, Phillies, Chicago White, Diamondbacks, Getty
Toronto, the most populous city in Canada, will be home to the league’s 14th franchise, the WNBA announced Thursday at a news conference. AdvertisementLed by Toronto billionaire Larry Tanenbaum’s Kilmer Sports Venture, the unnamed franchise will use the 8,000-seat Coca-Cola Coliseum as its home arena. Tips off in 2026. pic.twitter.com/NjwjmetAiY — WNBA (@WNBA) May 23, 2024Teresa Resch, a former Raptors executive and the executive vice president for Kilmer Sports Venture, will serve as team president. Engelbert called it a “seminal moment” for Toronto in its feasibility to receive a WNBA expansion team. The WNBA team will add to the list of Toronto’s professional women’s sports franchises.
Persons: Larry Tanenbaum’s, Tanenbaum, ” Tanenbaum, , Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford, Olivia Chow, Masai Ujiri, Scottie Barnes, Kyle Lowry —, ” Trudeau Organizations: WNBA, Area, Toronto, Larry Tanenbaum’s Kilmer Sports Venture, Cola, Associated Press, University of Toronto’s, , Toronto Raptors, Raptors, Philadelphia 76ers Locations: United States, Toronto, Canada, Vancouver, Montreal, Ontario
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