Sports (Page 39)

The area is well represented in minor league baseball. Each week on Thursdays, News4JAX will chart how local players are doing in affiliate minor league baseball. Locals on minor league baseball rosters Pos., Player, Local tie, Current level, Team, MLB affiliate P, Mason Adams, JU, Class-A, Kannapolis, White Sox, IsContinue Reading

Xiyu Janet Lin soaked up the views of Pebble Beach while letting her putter do the work Thursday for a 4-under 68, giving her the early lead in the first U.S. Women’s Open held at one of America’s most famous courses. With only mild wind and a marine layer overContinue Reading

Maddox Johnson remembers it well. One of his friends approached him about a sport called lacrosse. Part inquisitive, part willing to give any activity a try, Johnson talked to his family about the opportunity. He figured, ‘Why not,’ and gave it a shot. That was in second grade. Since then,Continue Reading

San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama said Thursday he believes Britney Spears grabbed him from behind as he was walking into a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino, and that the security detail he was with pushed the pop star away. Wembanyama said he wasn’t told that Spears was theContinue Reading

Alexander Volkanovski is coming off a fight in which he lost — and was congratulated for it. He wasn’t all that comfortable at first about hearing the kudos for moving up a weight class to come close in a fight that Volkanovski said even many close to him didn’t thinkContinue Reading

John Berylson, an American businessman known for his enthusiastic ownership of the English soccer team Millwall, has died. He was 70. His death, the result of a car crash in Massachusetts on Tuesday, was announced by the second-division London team, which said Berylson presided over some of the greatest momentsContinue Reading

WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier are starting a new women’s basketball league to give top players another option to play in the U.S. in the offseason once the league’s prioritization rules go into effect next year. The new league, which is called Unrivaled, will run from January throughContinue Reading

Daytona International Speedway isn’t slowing down on its study and research to understand the feasibility of hosting the Jacksonville Jaguars during their stadium renovations. On Thursday, Speedway president Frank Kelleher hit on a number of topics, from next February’s Daytona 500 and ticket sales that begin Friday, to the flexibilityContinue Reading

A cameraman hit in the head by an errant throw Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium has a broken eye socket and is home resting, the YES Network said in a statement Thursday. Positioned right next to the New York Yankees’ dugout on the first-base side, Pete Stendel of YES NetworkContinue Reading