MLB risks playing for free, possible lockout
NEW YORK — Jeremy Jeffress, Jordan Montgomery, Kevin Plawecki could be playing for free this season, earning salaries lower than what they already received as advances.
Mookie Betts, George Springer, J.T. Realmuto, James Paxton and Marcus Stroman will likely find fewer bidders, dollars and contract years as the free-agent market goes into a free fall in the offseason.
And all of baseball could be bracing for a spring training lockout and shortened 2022 season after the coronavirus pandemic heightened the likelihood of the sport's first work stoppage since 1994-95.
Former Miami Marlins president David Samson said Sunday "The biggest people you should watch this offseason are Mookie Betts and J.T. Realmuto because J.T. thought that he would surpass Joe Mauer and Buster Posey, and there is likely no chance."
Soccer: Real Madrid resumed its Spanish league campaign with a 3-1 win over Eibar on Sunday to keep pace with leader Barcelona. Toni Kroos, Sergio Ramos and Marcelo scored a goal each — with Marcelo taking a knee and raising one of his hands in the air — as Madrid won the game at the club's training center while major renovation work takes place at the 80,000-capacity Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, about 6 miles away. Eden Hazard, who had been expected to miss the rest of the season because of a foot injury suffered before the coronavirus pandemic, set up two of the goals in the game. There were no fans at the 6,000-capacity Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium, which is used mostly by Madrid's "B" team.
College football: Nearly half the 66 Football Bowl Subdivision members that responded to an Associated Press inquiry last week said they're still deciding whether to disclose the number of athletes with positive tests for COVID-19. Just over half aren't going to release numbers at all.
— Wire reports