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1:04 PM on Friday, February 20

San Diego Padres reliever Yuki Matsui’s status for Japan in the World Baseball Classic could be in doubt after the left-hander ended a batting practice session early due to left groin tightness

12:05 PM on Friday, February 20

Gerrit Cole reached 96.9 mph in his first session against hitters since the New York Yankees ace underwent Tommy John elbow surgery last March

12:00 PM on Friday, February 20

Jen Pawol will umpire during spring training for the third straight year but the major leagues’ first female umpire did not get one of the permanent staff openings

11:58 AM on Friday, February 20

11:55 AM on Friday, February 20

Minnesota right-hander Pablo López will have season-ending Tommy John elbow surgery

11:41 AM on Friday, February 20

Jim Harbaugh is reshaping the Los Angeles Chargers staff with eight new coaches, and he's pulling several from Mike McDaniel’s Miami Dolphins group

11:40 AM on Friday, February 20

Brittany Bowe has taken one final lap at an Olympic speedskating rink with U.S. Speedskating coach Ryan Shimabukuro by her side and fiancée Hilary Knight, the captain of the Americans’ gold winners in women’s hockey, in the stands

11:20 AM on Friday, February 20

Venus Williams has received a wild card for the BNP Paribas Open singles and doubles draws at Indian Wells

10:52 AM on Friday, February 20

Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins risked his entire NASCAR team to challenge the revenue sharing system and came out of the federal antitrust lawsuit poised to start building a contender

10:27 AM on Friday, February 20

Todd Monken has started the process of filling out his first coaching staff with the Cleveland Browns by naming his coordinators

10:26 AM on Friday, February 20

Jung Hoo Lee is ready to be the regular right fielder for San Francisco, shifting from his familiar home in center

10:25 AM on Friday, February 20

The Kansas City Royals have agreed to a minor league deal with catcher Elias Díaz and say the 11-year veteran will join the big league camp next week

10:05 AM on Friday, February 20

Lindsey Vonn has undergone more surgery on her badly broken left leg and remains hospitalized nearly two weeks after her terrifying crash in the Olympic downhill

9:32 AM on Friday, February 20

Major League Soccer opens its 31st season this weekend, kicking off one of the most consequential stretches in the league’s history

9:17 AM on Friday, February 20

Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong of the Netherlands has won her first Olympic gold and sixth career medal by finishing first in speedskating’s 1,500 meters at the Milan Cortina Winter Games

8:10 AM on Friday, February 20

7:58 AM on Friday, February 20

Canada’s controversial men’s team will have the curling power’s last chance at Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Games

7:04 AM on Friday, February 20

Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy has agreed to a new contract after leading the Brewers to division titles and getting selected as NL manager of the year each of his first two seasons

6:32 AM on Friday, February 20

Nathan MacKinnon scored the go-ahead goal with 35.2 seconds left to help Canada survive another scare at the Olympics, rallying to beat Finland 3-2 in the semifinals and advance to the men’s gold-medal game

5:59 AM on Friday, February 20

Johannes Dale-Skjevdal of Norway was the only biathlete to hit all 20 of his targets in the 15-kilometer mass start race Friday and skied his way to gold Norway’s 17th gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — breaking the record for the most gold medals won by a nation at a single Winter Olympics