MLB
Ink finally dry on Logan’s contract with Rockies
DENVER – Boone Logan and the Colorado Rockies completed their $16.5 million, three-year deal on Monday.
The left-handed reliever spent the last four seasons with the New York Yankees. He was 5-2 with a 3.23 ERA in 2013. Logan will make $4.75 million next year, $5.5 million in 2015 and $6.25 million in 2016.
The 29-year-old Logan is a big addition for a Colorado bullpen that had an NL-worst 4.23 ERA last season. The team also added reliever LaTroy Hawkins, who is expected to compete for the closer’s job.
To make room for Logan on the 40-man roster, the team designed right-hander Collin McHugh for assignment. McHugh appeared in seven games last season with the Rockies and New York Mets, going 0-4 with a 10.04 ERA.
Olympics
U.S. Olympic fundraiser mittens made in China
The outside of the mittens say “Go USA.” The insides say “Made in China.”
Less than two years after being criticized for having the U.S. Olympic team’s uniforms made in China, the U.S. Olympic Committee has another wardrobe malfunction on its hands.
The red-white-and-blue mittens it’s selling to raise funds for winter athletes were produced in China.
It says so right on the tag on the inside.
The USOC is charging $14 a pair for the blue gloves that have the word “Go” embroidered in red on the left mitten and “USA” on the right. Also part of that left mitten is the tag, which says the gloves are “100% acrylic,” “One Size Fits Most” and “Made in China.”
USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said the “official” mittens being worn by the athletes at the opening ceremony are made in the USA. They’re also available to the public for $98 a pair on the Ralph Lauren website, which proudly proclaims its products are “Made in America” almost everywhere you look on the page for its official Team USA collection.
But the federation was going for a lower price point for its fundraiser. With the games more than a month away, it has raised $500,000 from the mitten sales.
college football
Glendale, Ariz., and Tampa get 2016, ’17 title games
Glendale, Ariz., will host the College Football Playoff championship in 2016 and Tampa will be the site of the 2017 title game.
The conference commissioners who oversee the playoffs announced Monday their choices for the sites of the second and third championship games in the new postseason system that goes into effect next season.
The first title game will be played Jan. 12, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys.
The second title game is scheduled to be played Jan. 11, 2016, in Glendale, Ariz., at University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the Fiesta Bowl and the NFL’s Cardinals. The Fiesta Bowl is also part of the six-bowl semifinal rotation for the playoff, but it won’t host a semifinal until the 2016 season.
The other bidders for the 2016 game were Jacksonville, Fla., New Orleans and Tampa.
college basketball
Arizona hangs on to the top spot in AP top 25 rankings
Arizona remains the runaway No. 1 in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll after winning a close game at Michigan on Saturday.
The Wildcats (11-0), who won 72-70, received all but two of the first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Monday.
Syracuse (10-0) got the other two No. 1 votes and remains second in a poll, with the top eight teams holding the same spot from last week.
Ohio State is third followed by Wisconsin, Michigan State, Louisville and Oklahoma State.
Duke and Villanova, which moved up two spots, were tied for eighth, while Connecticut dropped one spot to round out the top 10.
Associated Press
