, so Rick Ware Racing hired Burton to drive its No. 51 Ford at North Wilkesboro in a one-off deal.
The sport long known as America’s Pastime was played only as one-game Olympic exhibitions until 1984, when it joined the Los Angeles program as a demonstration sport.Baseball became an official Olympic sport in Barcelona in 1992, but U.S. professionals weren’t allowed to compete until 2000, when minor leaguers were allowed to play. The absence of the world’s best players was one reason cited when baseball was subsequently dropped from the London and Rio de Janeiro Games.
The sport returned in baseball-mad Tokyo in 2021 — but only for MLB players not on a 40-man roster. Japan’s top league shut down its season, and Japan won gold.Baseball was dropped once again in Paris, but restored for LA28. The tournament will be played at historic Dodger Stadium, the same venue that hosted the 1984 Olympic tournament.Wasserman spoke about his baseball aspirations after an event that should remind MLB of the Olympics’ unmatched marketing power. NBCUniversal has taken over a large soundstage complex in suburban Sun Valley to create extensive multimedia content to be used in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics broadcasts in nine months, feeding the broadcast machine that boosts winter stars including Chloe Kim, Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn to international celebrity.
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The reigningwill be a featured attraction this season on the league’s training camp documentary, with the Buffalo Bills making their first appearance on “Hard Knocks.”
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to pull Inter Miami within one and had the assist on Telasco Segovia’s tying goal in the 95th minute, helping Inter Miami rally from a two-goal deficit to tie the Philadelphia Union 3-3 on Saturday night.Messi, the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner and 2022 World Cup champion, scored a crucial goal in his first game since