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☆ Wrexham paint town red with open-top bus parade after promotion to EFL
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/4] Soccer Football - National League - Wrexham Victory Parade - Wrexham, Wales, Britain - May 2, 2023 Fans light flares as Wrexham players celebrate with the trophy on the bus during the victory parade REUTERS/Carl RecineMay 2 (Reuters) - Wrexham's Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ditched the star-studded Met Gala to join the Welsh soccer club's open-top bus victory parade on Tuesday as they celebrated their promotion to the English Football League. Wrexham secured a fairytale return to the EFL following a 15-year absence last month after beating Boreham Wood 3-1 to win the National League with a game to spare. The dollop of Hollywood glitz has made Wrexham's promotion one of the most unlikely and heart-warming stories for many a season. Wrexham said the parade was also to celebrate the achievements of their women's team, who achieved promotion to Adran Premier, the highest level of league competition for the women's game in Wales. Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru Editing by Christian RadnedgeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ MLB roundup: Padres prevail in offensive showcase in Mexico City
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +14 min
Trent Grisham hit a two-run double to increase the Padres' lead to 14-11 in the eighth. Machado had three hits with three RBIs and four runs, while Thairo Estrada had four hits and three RBIs for the Giants. Andujar went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, while Connor Joe went 1-for-4 with a solo homer and two runs for Pittsburgh. Patrick Corbin (1-4) gave up three runs on seven hits with two strikeouts and a walk in 5 1/3 innings. Nationals starter Chad Kuhl (0-2) allowed eight runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and four walks in just 3 2/3 innings.
☆ Drew Maggi: Career minor leaguer finally gets MLB call-up after 13-year wait
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Thomas Schlachter Homero De La Fuente | Thomas Schlachter | Homero De La Fuente | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —They say good things come to those who wait, and Drew Maggi has been waiting a long time for his major league call-up. The third baseman for the Altoona Curve – the Pittsburgh Pirates’ AAA affiliate – was drafted by the Pirates in the 15th round of the 2010 MLB draft but never played a big league game. Understandably, Maggi was pumped after spending his entire 13-year career in the minor leagues and celebrated alongside his teammates upon receiving the news. There were a lot of ups and downs, a lot of different people, injuries, a lot of stuff happens. So, being here, it feels right.”Maggi had most recently been playing with the Altoona Curve, the Pittsburgh Pirates' AAA affiliate.
☆ Minor league baseball players ratify historic first collective bargaining agreement
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Jacob Lev | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Minor league baseball players ratified a historic first-ever collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with Major League Baseball, the Players Association announced on Friday. The deal will be final upon formal ratification by Major League Baseball owners. With the approval, minor league players will have their salaries and working conditions set by the CBA prior to the start of the minor league season. “The agreement represents a giant step forward in treating Minor League Players as the elite professional athletes that they are,” said MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark in a statement. Every past and present member of the MLBPA is proud today.”The minor league season is scheduled to open on Friday when Triple-A clubs start the regular season.
☆ MLB, Minor Leaguers Reach Tentative Deal on First-Ever Collective Bargaining Agreement
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Lindsey Adler | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A minor league baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and Greensboro Grasshoppers in 2022. Minor league baseball players reached a tentative agreement with Major League Baseball on the collective bargaining agreement for minor leaguers who formed a union last year, MLB Players Association officials said Wednesday night. The five-year deal—which will go to a ratification vote by players on Thursday and to MLB owners for a vote in coming days—will at least double the pay of minor-league players and provide other benefits. Last September, MLB voluntarily recognized the union, which made the MLB Players Association the bargaining agent for minor league players.
☆ Play ball - more quickly! New rules aim to speed MLB games
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
The new rule gives the pitcher 15 seconds in between pitches with the bases empty and 20 seconds with runners on base. Another major change - outlawing the shift - will allow for more hits, making games more exciting for fans. In 2003, the average time of a nine-inning game was two hours and 46 minutes, according to Elias Sports Bureau. An MLB memo obtained by Reuters last week showed the pitch clock was already having its intended effect. The average number of violations per game also dropped from 2.03 in the first week to 1.03 by mid-March.
☆ MLB Took a Slow Route to Developing a Speedier Game
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Lindsey Adler | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
In August 2021, a group of Major League Baseball executives sat down at a minor league game in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. As the Quakes, the Low-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, took the field, they saw for the first time the version of the pitch clock that will make its way to MLB this year. “Within an inning, we all kind of looked at each other and said we’d seen enough,” recalled Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice president of baseball operations. They told each other: “We need this in the big leagues.”
☆ Puma channeled Michael Jordan to announce Rihanna's return to the sportswear brand: 'She's back'
  + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Mary Hanbury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Her return announcement referenced Michael Jordan's infamous return to the NBA in 1995. It's not yet clear what this collaboration will involve but Puma teased fans on Instagram with a post that said: "She's back," alongside her Fenty brand logo. One of her sneaker designs, the Fenty x Puma creeper, was voted shoe of the year by industry news outlet Footwear News in 2016. Fenty Beauty, one of her most successful ventures, helped to catapult her into the Forbes billionaires list in 2022. According to Forbes estimates, Fenty Beauty brought in over $550 million in annual revenue just one year after it launched and is currently worth around $2.8 billion.
☆ How a new $300 million private equity fund plans to invest and compete in sports media, 'the most valuable last commodity standing'
  + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
NBA vet Bobby Sharma and partner Kyle Charters just raised $300 million for sports-related investments. It's led by NBA and IMG vet Bobby Sharma and investment banking vet Kyle Charters, and it just announced it closed a $300 million fund to invest in sports-related media and entertainment. "And there are some sports media, entertainment, business executives who are learning private equities through their fundraising. Sports is "essentially the most valuable last commodity standing in the media landscape," Sharma said. You've got the incumbent media companies that are ensuring their survival by heavily investing as well.
☆ An NBA and IMG veteran breaks down how he raised a $300 million private equity fund in a bleak market and how he plans to invest in all things sports
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
NBA vet Bobby Sharma and partner Kyle Charters just raised $300 million for sports-related investments. It's led by NBA and IMG vet Bobby Sharma and investment banking vet Kyle Charters and just announced it closed a $300 million fund to invest in sports-related media and entertainment. "And there are some sports media, entertainment, business executives who are learning private equities through their fundraising. There's been a wave of private equity interest in sports by giants like Blackstone to new entrants like Dynasty Equity Partners. You've got the incumbent media companies that are ensuring their survival by heavily investing as well.
☆ The 2022 Baseball Trivia Extravaganza
  + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Tyler Kepner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
In baseball, the Holliday season started in July, when the Baltimore Orioles took a high school infielder named Jackson Holliday with the first pick in the amateur draft. He played like a happy Holliday, reaching base in nearly half of his 90 plate appearances in the minor leagues. He also played for Tony La Russa, who once managed a fellow named Steve Christmas. Matt Holliday played his last game in 2018, the same year Gift Ngoepe — the first major league player from Africa — played his. And here is our annual gift to you: a baseball quiz put together with care, in hopes that your answers soon will be there.
☆ Stronger league could be Qatar World Cup legacy, says Spanish coach
  + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Philip O'Connor | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
"The level of Qatar that we have seen in the World Cup is not the real level. "(Cristiano) Ronaldo had to work, work, work to make it. You need to develop these players, these Qataris in the right way, but we will see what happens after the World Cup," he said. With that in mind, the Qatar Stars League will start again on Thursday, four days after the World Cup final, with Lerin's Al Shamal in action against Al Wakrah on Friday. "I think it will be difficult for them to play in another World Cup, really difficult, but at the same time now the rules of the World Cup are changing and there are more teams," Lerin explained.
☆ Gen Z's not lazy — they're just refusing to put up with the toxic work culture that Boomers created
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Kim Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
"And I personally think that all of us in Gen Z, when we experienced that with our parents, we were like, 'Fuck that. And now, Gen Z is turning to organizing as a way to stand up to corporate bosses. But she and her Gen Z peers are not ready to accept that mode of thinking. Put simply, young workers want something better than their parents had and aren't afraid to seek it out. Because if there is one quality that Gen Z has in spades, it is audacity — and no mass movement has ever succeeded without it.
☆ Walmart's metaverse experiments aim to attract 'younger evangelists' from generations Z and Alpha, experts say. Others warn it may be a lot of effort for limited returns.
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Walmart's launch of its virtual-reality experiments with global gaming platform Roblox is a "game-changing moment" for the retailer, according to Justin Lacche, a metaverse consultant. But, more importantly, the experiments will help Walmart connect with the younger consumers it wants to attract. About half — 45% — of Roblox users are under the age of 13. Roblox is not the metaverse, it's more of a gaming environment, but it is a stepping stone to the metaverse." Have you tried Walmart's metaverse experiments or have insights to share on the projects?
☆ Harry Marino Survived the Minor Leagues. Now He Wants to Fix Them.
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Harry Marino, the attorney and former minor-league baseball player whose work spearheaded the unionization of minor leaguers this month, sought to put a century’s worth of hardball labor and heartfelt, if imperfect, dreams into perspective. The romance of young men chasing fly balls and life’s footholds in small, charming ballparks is real, he said. So are the trials.
☆ Maury Wills, Dodgers shortstop famous for base-stealing, dies at 89
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
LOS ANGELES — Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, has died. Wills played on World Series title teams in 1959, ’63 and ’65 during his first eight seasons with the Dodgers. Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers in Vero Beach, Fla., in 1964. After the game, Wills left with his MVP trophy and showed it to the guard. After retiring with the Dodgers in 1972, Wills worked an analyst at NBC for five years.
☆ Biden says he plans to run for reelection in 2024, but here's one reporter's lesson from 2008 on why anything is possible
  + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
He said there was no chance of him becoming vice president. They're real," Biden told me that afternoon. Mark Bowden later asked Biden, then vice president, in his West Wing office about that marathon quote. "That was absolutely, positively true when I said it," Biden told him. I never, never, never, never aspired to be vice president.
☆ Major League Baseball players union joins the AFL-CIO
  + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
New York CNN Business —The Major League Baseball Players Association is joining the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation that includes unions representing a total of 12.5 million members. Recently, it announced plans to add about 5,400 minor league players, the majority of whom have signed cards requesting union representation. The announcement was made Wednesday by Tony Clark, a retired Major League player and executive director of the players union, and Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO. The union also won the right to binding salary arbitration for players who haven’t yet qualified for free agency. The MLBPA will join several other sports unions in the AFL-CIO, including the National Football League Players Association, the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association, the United Soccer League Players Association, the US Women’s National Team Players Association and the United Football Players Association, which was recently organized by the United Steelworkers, another AFL-CIO affiliate, to represent members of the upstart US Football League.
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