By WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will take place on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, and didn’t rule out that he himself might oversee the event. “It’s the biggest, probably the biggest event in sports, I guess,” said Trump, who made the announcement in an Oval Office event where he was joined by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Vice President JD Vance. The U.S. is co-hosting next year’s tournament — which for the first time will feature 48 national teams up from 32 —…
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NEW YORK – Red Sox top outfield prospect Jhostynxon Garcia will bat fifth and start in center field in his MLB debut Friday night at Yankee Stadium, while Brayan Bello and Max Fried square off on the pitcher’s mound. The Red Sox called up Garcia early Thursday afternoon to replace right-fielder and ’24 Gold Glove defender Wilyer Abreu, whom they placed on the 10-day injured list with a right calf strain (retroactive to Aug. 18). To counter the lefty Fried – who chose the Yankees over the Red Sox in free agency last December – manager Alex Cora has stacked…
The Boston Red Sox designated Ali Sanchez for assignment on Monday. Just four days later, the 28-year-old catcher reportedly found a new home. “The Mets and catcher Ali Sanchez are in agreement on a minor-league deal, league sources said,” Will Sammon of The Athletic posted on Bluesky on Friday afternoon. Sanchez made his major league debut with the New York Mets during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, going 1-for-9 across five games. Sanchez then played two games with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2021 before spending 2022 to 2023 in the minors. Story continues below advertisement The Venezuelan played a career-high…
Breaking development: The Patriots roster is going to look different next week. “We’re going to continually try to strengthen the roster every way we can,” head coach Mike Vrabel said after New England suffered a 42-10 loss to the Giants in its preseason finale Thursday night. “There’s a couple options, right? You can try to trade for players. You can try to claim some players next week. So, again, we’re always going to be trying to strengthen the roster and that’s what we’ll try to do here over the course of the next 10 days.” Patriots insider Phil Perry believes…
The Patriots got out ahead of roster cuts by announcing 14 transactions on Friday. Head coach Mike Vrabel announced the following cuts: QB Ben Wooldridge, RB Micah Bernard, RB Shane Watts, WR Phil Lutz, TE Cole Fotheringham, TE Jaheim Bell, G Sidy Sow, G Tyrese Robinson, DT Kyle Peko, DT Philip Blidi, LB Monty Rice, LB RJ Moten, CB Jordan Polk and CB Isaiah Bolden. The Patriots now have 77 players on their 91-man roster. They must get down to 53 players by Tuesday at 4 p.m. None of the Patriots’ initial 14 cuts are overly surprising, though Wooldridge, Fotheringham,…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It’s hard to come to any meaningful conclusions after a third and final preseason game, but Thursday night’s 42-10 loss to the Giants might have shown some depth issues on the Patriots’ roster. Head coach Mike Vrabel said the Patriots will “continually try to strengthen” their roster in every way they can before the start of the regular season, when they take on the Raiders on Sept. 7 in Week 1. “There’s a couple options, right? You can try to trade for players. You can try to claim some players next week,” Vrabel said. “So again,…
Who is he and where did he come from?He’s Jhostynxon Garcia, known around the Red Sox fandom as “The Password.” For the first month of this season, I had to pull up Fangraphs to look up the spelling of his name nearly every day as, in Portland, he was making headlines almost as often as Roman Anthony was in Worcester. Before long, the brass had seen enough and he was called up to Worcester, where he promptly tore the cover off the ball. He and his little brother Johanfran, a catcher currently in High-A Greenville, were signed from Venezuela three…
If you were watching the Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees game on Thursday night, you’ll always remember the bat flip. In the annals of Red Sox-Yankees history, Roman Anthony’s post-home run gesture might ultimately be archived in more proper, singular terms as, ‘The Bat Flip’. After launching a ninth-inning slider from Yerry De Los Santos high into the Bronx sky, Anthony discarded his weapon with swagger, and Red Sox fans, for a moment, froze in euphoric disbelief. Anthony’s homer, though a tad jarring in its immediacy (first pitch of the at-bat), wasn’t very surprising to Red Sox fans who are…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The preseason, finally, mercifully and thankfully, is over. The Patriots punctuated their summer with a primetime battle against the Giants, a mini appetizer for their rematch to come on Monday Night Football in December. That game, of course, will look much different than Thursday’s did. Coming off five days of rest, the Pats fielded just two starters. Undrafted rookie Ben Wooldridge started at quarterback. The stands at MetLife Stadium looked like they were picked clean from the opening kickoff. So, let’s skip Thursday night and zoom out. Here are five thoughts on the Patriots’ preseason as…
NEW YORK (AP) — After calling up highly-rated prospects Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer in June, the Red Sox added another prospect Thursday when they recalled outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia from Triple-A Worcester.Garcia was called up to replace Wilyer Abreu, who was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right calf strain. Abreu originally was injured Sunday and the move is retroactive to Monday.The 22-year-old Garcia signed with the Red Sox as a non-drafted free agent from Venezuela in 2019 and is Boston’s No. 3 prospect according to MLB.com, which also ranks him as the 77th overall prospect in baseball.He…