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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB, union reach tentative agreement on new CBA, salvage 162-game season — Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reached a tentative agreement on a new collective-bargaining agreement Thursday, ending the league's 99-day lockout of the players and salvaging a 162-game season …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
David Ortiz open to international draft in MLB, seeks further input from players before implementation — Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz, perhaps the most prominent voice in Dominican baseball, says he is open to the idea of an international draft but is wary of its implementation …
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ESPN:
MLB, MLBPA reach labor agreement: Everything you need to know as lockout ends — The MLB lockout is over. — It took more than three months — and multiple deadlines for delaying the regular season — before Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association ended their stalemate …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB's lockout is mercifully over. Where do we go from here? … Major League Baseball magically made those two weeks of cancelled games re-appear Thursday, keeping a full 162-game season intact, when MLB and the players association agreed to a new five-year collective bargaining agreement, ending the league's 99-day lockout.
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Associated Press:
MLB, MLBPA agree to negotiate on international amateur draft amid lockout talks — NEW YORK — Major League Baseball and its locked-out players agreed Thursday to negotiate on an international amateur draft, paving the way for renewed economic talks. — Under an agreement reached on the 99th …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Major League Baseball cancels second week of season after discussions fail to produce CBA — Major League Baseball canceled the second week of the regular season Wednesday after days of discussion with the MLB Players Association failed to generate a new collective-bargaining agreement.
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Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
MLB cancels another two series after negotiations with MLBPA break down again; Opening Day could be pushed to April 14 … Major League Baseball canceled two more regular season series Wednesday as its lockout neared Day 100, and players, teams and fans were left to ponder a 2022 season minus at least a dozen games on their schedules.
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
No deal: Cardinals' April 7 home opener canceled as MLB lockout leaks more games, talks fall shy
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Major League Baseball pushes for international draft, while players' union opposes it, sources say
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLBPA to respond to MLB's latest CBA proposal Wednesday; game cancellations on hold
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Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
MLB cancels 93 more games, gap narrows in bargaining
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
MLB players frustrated by league's deadlines, but ‘solid in where they stand’
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Julia Poe / Chicago Tribune:
'He's got to get downhill.' How can the Chicago Bulls get Zach LaVine to regain confidence driving to the rim? — Despite a blowout loss in Philadelphia, Zach LaVine showed flashes of his old self with 24 points Monday against the 76ers. — It's a sight the Chicago Bulls are eager …
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Julia Poe / Chicago Tribune:
Alex Caruso and Patrick Williams are cleared for contact drills, putting their Chicago Bulls returns close — Injured Chicago Bulls players Alex Caruso and Patrick Williams could resume contact drills Friday, preparing both for potential returns at the end of the month.
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Mike Ozanian / Forbes:
MLB Deals With Apple And NBC Sports Are Worth A Combined $115 Million Annually — Baseball is in the midst of a lockout that is threatening the start of the 2022 season, but that isn't preventing the league from getting richer. — The new multi-year streaming deal between Major League Baseball …
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Associated Press:
Apple, MLB announce ‘Friday Night Baseball’ package
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Mike Preston / Baltimore Sun:
Ravens should be in no rush to offer QB Lamar Jackson contract extension — The Ravens are in no rush to sign quarterback Lamar Jackson to a contract extension, and they should be glad he isn't campaigning for a new deal, too. — Since training camp opened in 2021, I have advocated …
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Stefan Bondy / New York Daily News:
Julius Randle, Knicks take advantage of Mavericks' 38 missed three-point shots in blowout win in Dallas — DALLAS — It was a miraculous display of misfiring. Rim clank after rim clank. The Mavericks could've built the Great Wall of China with all those bricks.
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Omar Kelly / Sun-Sentinel:
Dolphins putting franchise tag on Mike Gesicki is merely a Band-Aid — The past three times the Miami Dolphins used the franchise or transition tag, the player they slapped it on ended up playing elsewhere that very same season. — Pro Bowl receiver Jarvis Landry got traded to Cleveland …
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