Ava Jones, a rising high school senior from Kansas who verbally committed to Iowa’s women’s basketball team Sunday, was seriously injured along with her parents when they were struck by a car in Louisville on Tuesday night.
Cherelle Griner, the wife of Mercury center Brittney Griner, said Wednesday at a rally for the WNBA star’s freedom that “what and how I feel today is a deeper emotion than hurt. I’m frustrated.”
The executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers blistered MLB’s antitrust exemption Thursday in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leadership, calling on Congress to give minor leaguers the same protections already extended to major leaguers.
Most teams are officially at the halfway mark of the season — and while some have all but secured a spot in October, others are fighting to stay in playoff contention.