BASEBALL

MLB RECLASSIFIES NEGRO LEAGUE AS MAJOR LEAGUE

Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin's big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total.

Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a major league record, too.

The statistics and records of greats like Gibson, Paige and roughly 3,400 other players are set to join Major League Baseball's books after MLB announced Wednesday it is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league.

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Detroit Lions' Matthew Stafford's wife blames NFL for harassment

After a false positive Covid-19 test put Matthew Stafford, quarterback for the Detroit Lions, on the NFL's Injured Reserve/Covid list, life has been terrible. And his wife blames the NFL.

That's according to an Instagram post made by Kelly Stafford, the quarterback's wife, who called the past four days following the false positive "somewhat of a nightmare."

"I have been losing my mind because of how my Family has been treated since my husband was put on COVID-IR," Kelly Stafford wrote. "Even after we knew it was false positive, our school told us they were not allowed back, I was approached in a grocery store and told I was 'endangering others,' my kids were harassed and kicked off a playground, I was told I needed to wait in my car when trying to pick up food, and people closest to us had to get tested just so they could go back to work."

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Coronavirus: What sporting events are affected by the pandemic?

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which as of April 29 has killed more than 235,000 people globally, has affected sporting events across the world.

COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has infected more than 3.25 million people worldwide.

Major sporting events have been cancelled or postponed. The most significant one that was due to take place in Japan this summer was the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

However, the International Olympic Committee and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have postponed the event to next year, where it will now take place from July 23 to August 8, 2021.

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Wedding on hold? Here is how Alex Bregman’s wedding plans are going amid coronavirus pandemic

Alex Bregman and his now-fiancée, Reagan Howard got engaged in January during a family trip to Colorado.

The couple planned to get married in December after the baseball season. However just a few months later, their plans – like many other couples’ – hit a snag thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

With baseball season delayed, many businesses closed and large gatherings prohibited, Bregman and Howard are not sure when their wedding will happen.

“Our wedding plans, there has been a little fork in the road when it comes to our wedding plans,” Bregman told KPRC 2. “We don’t know what we are going to do right now. Maybe we’ll still do it as planned in December but maybe we’ll have to wait. It depends on baseball season.”

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