(AP) — If the final pitch of the 2020 baseball season comes closer to Christmas than Halloween, that’s fine with the players.

(AP) — The Indianapolis 500 was postponed Thursday until August because of the coronavirus pandemic and won’t run on Memorial Day weekend for the first time since 1946.

(AP) — Perhaps no other sports event puts so many fans in such close contact with athletes as the Tour de France, with swarms of people clogging city streets, winding roads and soaring mountain passes during cycling’s three-week showpiece and getting within touching distance of the riders.

(AP) — Fred “Curly” Neal, the dribbling wizard who entertained millions with the Harlem Globetrotters for parts of three decades, has died. He was 77.

One of the longest-tenured Ravens will return to Baltimore next seasons.

(AP) — With more and more calls to postpone the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s worth noting that this every-four-years spectacle has been rocked before by traumatic events.

(AP) — It has been just one week.

(AP) — Another veteran NFL quarterback is hitting the open market.

(AP) — Change does not come easily to the Kentucky Derby.

(AP) — John Means was a long shot to even make the Baltimore Orioles’ roster a year ago. Each time the Orioles added a player to the 40-man roster, Means thought he’d be the one to lose his spot.

(AP) — Stephen Strasburg chatted by his locker early in spring training with Wil Crowe — just a World Series MVP and a non-roster invitee for the Washington Nationals plopping themselves on a pair of folding chairs to talk shop during camp’s ample idle time.

(AP) — In the forgettable 2019 season, the Baltimore Orioles’ bullpen had a woeful 5.79 ERA, the worst in the major leagues. That was a far cry from the team’s successful run years ago, when its relief corps was a strength led by Zack Britton, who converted all 47 of his save chances in 2016…