According to Fox Sports, the long-time St. Louis backstop has agreed to a deal with the Cards that will keep him in St. Louis through 2020. MORE: Opening day 2017: Schedule for all 30 MLB teams Molina, 34, hit .307/.360/.427 last season with eight homers in 147 games. “Yadi” has played in at least 110 games every season since 2005, earning 1,593 career hits, 108 career home runs, eight Gold Gloves and seven All-Star apperances....
Off the field, however, the two sets of fans joined forces for charity, raising funds to help the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo. The hospital has received more than $500,000 in donations from Bills fans since Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen revealed that his grandmother, Patricia, died before the Bills played the Seattle Seahawks in Week 9 of the NFL season. Allen, who threw for 415 yards and three touchdown passes in the win against the Seahawks, explained after the game that he had been told of his grandmother’s death less than a day before taking the field in Seattle, prompting Bills fans to donate to the hospital to honor her memory....
They’ve been no-hit into the seventh inning of both of their games against the Nationals, and they have a total of four hits and one run in 18 innings. If Michael A. Taylor had held his ground instead of charging Jose Martinez’s line drive late in Game 2, those totals would be even worse (though that’s barely even mathematically possible): three hits and zero runs. The dozen members of the 2019 Cardinals who have stepped to the plate in the NLCS have only four more hits than Stan Musial, Lou Brock and Rogers Hornsby do in this series....
“No, unless I’m invited,’’ Charley Trippi joked, adding, “You tell them I’m available, all right?” Trippi just recently turned 93; NFL Films founder Ed Sabol, 97, is the Hall’s oldest non-player member. Trippi rarely travels far from his Athens, Ga., home these days. But he stays close to the Arizona Cardinals, the franchise that picked him first overall in the 1945 NFL draft (he’s also the oldest former No. 1 pick) when it was based in Chicago....
The teams took different paths to the postseason. Philadelphia had the second-best fWAR (Fangraphs Wins Above Replacement) from starting pitchers in 2022, led by Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler. The Cardinals ranked 16th. St. Louis had the third-best defense in MLB, per Fangraphs. Philadelphia ranked 27th. MORE: TSN’s baseball experts make picks for every postseason series One area of unity between the teams: the long ball. Both teams have plenty of power....
You thought Cardinals coach Bruce Arians was on fire this season? Their general manager is scorching. MORE: NFL GM rankings | WEEK 14: Picks | Predictions | Betting lines It was another one of Keim’s deals on display that sealed Thursday’s night 23-20 win over Minnesota. Dwight Freeney found another spin move in his 35-year-old edge rushing self to strip-sack quarterback Teddy Bridgewater and keep the Vikings from attempting the game-tying field goal....
If the sport could produce a championship battle like that every season, NASCAR wouldn’t be shaking up the Chase again. HEAD TO HEAD: Johnson vs. Kenseth | Kyle vs. Keselowski | Kurt vs. Truex | Harvick vs. Newman But since their epic battle, both Stewart and Edwards have struggled a bit. Edwards missed the Chase in 2012 and slumped to 13th in the final standings last year. Stewart finished ninth in points in 2012 before breaking his leg and missing 15 races last year....
The Caribbean team’s dressing room was spirited after Braithwaite’s 59 run innings. West Indies have lacked confidence and competence on this tour and getting positives like youngsters playing well is a huge plus point for the near future. The Indies resumed on 91-6 after they were hammered for a huge 551-3. Braithwaite added a 90 run partnership with the left hander Darren Bravo and led the team to a decent 271 after being dismissed at tea....
Lots of things have to happen before games start, though. One of the biggest things is this: There are dozens and dozens — hundreds, actually — of free agents who have to find homes, and fast. It’s an annoyance for players who will sign contracts with starting jobs assured, but it’s potentially devastating for long-shot players who would have otherwise used a normal spring training to come into camp with a new club, hoping to impress enough for a roster spot....
Vela had joined the La Liga side for a fee in the region of £4million and has since then gone on to score more than 40 goals in all competitions. Vela said, “If I have to return, I will do things in a different way,” “What happened in the past will not be repeated. We will try and reach an agreement in which we all win - Real, Arsenal and me....
And that’s why Anthony will be in shape and ready to play when (if?) the 2019-20 NBA season resumes. With the Blazers 3 1/2 games behind the Grizzlies for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, Anthony and his teammates must hit the ground running. MORE: Key dates, schedule & more to know about NBA season “As far as from a physical standpoint, yes, I’m ready,” Anthony said during an interview with TNT’s Ernie Johnson....
Anthony was getting his sore right shoulder evaluated Tuesday morning and coach Mike Woodson says the Knicks' leading scorer "probably won't" play against the Nets. The Knicks end their season at home Wednesday against Toronto. MORE: Anthony will miss playoffs for first time | Bogut out with fractured rib Woodson says his preference is to shut Anthony down unless Anthony asks to play, and even then Woodson says that "I'm going to tell him I'm not going to play him....
Anthony has not featured in the league in over a year, since a short-lived spell with the Houston Rockets came to an end. However, the 35-year-old has played over 1,000 games in a career that has spanned 16 seasons since he was selected with the third overall pick in the 2003 draft. Anthony has previously played for the Denver Nuggets - the team who drafted him - as well as the New York Knicks and the Oklahoma City Thunder....
‘Man Utd not good enough for top-four finish’ The 35-year-old’s current deal runs out at the end of the season and while Jose Mourinho has suggested the club could offer him another contract, his future remains uncertain. Carrick has played just three times in the Premier League for the Red Devils this season, but the lack of playing time and clarity over his role at Old Trafford is not weighing heavily on his mind....
The 35-year-old singer announced Wednesday on Instagram that she and her husband, Mike Fisher, are expecting their second child. She says they are “absolutely over the moon.” Underwood and Fisher, a former NHL player for Ottawa, Canada, and Nashville, Tennessee, have a 3-year-old son, Isaiah. Underwood’s next album, “Cry Pretty,” is due out Sept. 14. A tour will follow in 2019. Tickets go on sale Aug. 17. The seven-time Grammy winner will join Brad Paisley as co-host of the Country Music Association Awards on Nov....
Carroll has five weeks to catch England manager Roy Hodgson’s attention and did no harm to his cause as he ran riot when he netted a hat-trick in Saturday’s 3-3 Premier League draw with London rivals Arsenal. “You have to be a bit more clever. Some of the challenges and the way I throw my body around in the Premier League wouldn’t work on an international stage,” Carroll told the Daily Telegraph....
All Blacks matchwinner Dan Carter is out of Saturday’s third Test against Ireland in a revamped side that also features Richie McCaw moving to the backrow. There are six changes to the starting XV as coach Steve Hansen covers for injuries and to shore up holes exposed in the tense 22-19 second Test victory in Christchurch last weekend. Carter, the team playmaker who won the match with a last minute drop goal, suffered a hamstring injury in training during the week while number eight Kieran Read has been sidelined by concussion....
Both players were injured on Sunday in the 4-2 win at Celta Vigo in the Spanish league. Casemiro left the match in the first half with a sprained right ankle, and Fernandez was substituted in the second with a dislocated ligament in his right knee. The club did not say how long they will be out. Coach Santiago Solari was already without left back Marcelo, right back Dani Carvajal, and defenders Raphael Varane and Jesus Vallejo....
The video, shared on TikTok on Saturday by the cat’s owner, under the username Rolyposey, shows the cat rolling down the stairs whenever her owner calls her cute, as she watches her, making sure she’s enjoying the performance. Cats exhibit plenty of “weird” behavior, and the reason may be that they just have too much energy to use, although some behaviors actually do have particular meanings. According to ASPCA Pet Health Insurance these behaviors include head bumping, chattering, chewing weird things, kneading and knocking things over....
