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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
MLB on potential shortened season: ‘A deadline is a deadline’ — JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball will begin canceling regular-season games if the league and the MLBPA can't come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement by Monday, a league spokesperson said Wednesday.
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Associated Press:
MLB labor talks to extend to Friday as Monday deadline to cancel regular-season games looms — JUPITER, Fla. — With less than 4½ days until Major League Baseball's deadline for a labor deal to salvage Opening Day and a 162-game season, New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner …
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MLB | NBC Sports and baseballmusings.com
James Wagner / New York Times:
M.L.B. Tells Union Games Will Be Lost Without a Deal Soon — The league said it would begin canceling games if a collective bargaining agreement was not reached by Monday. The sides are negotiating this week in Florida. — JUPITER, Fla. — With the scheduled start of the 2022 regular season approaching …
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Associated Press:
MLB owners say season to be shortened if no labor deal reached by Monday — JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball said Wednesday that the 2022 season will be shortened if no labor agreement has been reached by the end of Monday. — Management had maintained that was the deadline for a deal …
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Associated Press, JoeBlogs, FanSided, Sportsnet.ca and baseballmusings.com
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
MLB labor talks to extend to Friday as Monday deadline to cancel regular-season games looms
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Lookout Landing and The Good Phight
Dave Hyde / Sun-Sentinel:
Understandable and unusual, Josh Boyer returns to Dolphins defense to protect Mike McDaniel's blindside — MIAMI GARDENS — If you want a nostalgic reunion, there was former Miami Dolphins cornerbacks Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain, together again, talking Wednesday about coaching with each other this time.
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David Furones / Sun-Sentinel:
Madison, Surtain happy to be back with Dolphins: 'We're going to always be linked together' — MIAMI GARDENS — Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain grew together as NFL cornerbacks that found considerable success playing the position with the Miami Dolphins between the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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ProFootballTalk
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Troy Aikman's $90M ESPN deal has Sean McVay, Al Michaels, Joe Buck implications — MORE FROM: — After the seismic broadcasting move of Troy Aikman from Fox to ESPN, the next tremors are expected to reverberate from the NFL sidelines to some of sportscasting's all-time biggest names.
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ProFootballTalk, Sports Illustrated, Boston.com, CBS Boston and The Big Lead
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Troy Aikman on verge of bolting Fox for ESPN's ‘Monday Night Football’ — ESPN is deep in negotiations with Fox Sports' Troy Aikman to make him its lead analyst on “Monday Night Football,” The Post has learned. — Aikman's deal is not completed yet, but there is an expectation that it will be finalized.
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Marc Topkin / Tampa Bay Times:
Big-league life: Workouts at college field, hopes for good news — Yankees star DJ LeMahieu, among a dozen pros working out at Eckerd College, is “optimistic” of a deal. — Updated Earlier today — ST. PETERSBURG — A half-dozen rounds of batting practice over, DJ LeMahieu had one more item …
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Tampa Bay Times, New York Post and MLB Baseball News …
Chris Cotillo / Union-News:
NESN pursued Lou Merloni to call Boston Red Sox games in 2022, but radio host declined — NESN pursued former Red Sox infielder Lou Merloni to work as a color analyst for the 2022 season but Merloni declined, multiple sources told MassLive. Merloni, who co-hosts the afternoon “Merloni & Fauria” …
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Boston.com and CBS Boston
MLB - The Athletic:
Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are living monuments to baseball's past. How long can they be part of its future? — Fenway Park was on its way out 20 years ago. That seemed to be the consensus. A cramped, archaic, 90-year-old building could not survive in the era of modern ballparks …
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NBCSports.com, CBS Boston and MLB Baseball News …
