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MLB and MLBPA head toward a lockout as the current CBA expires Dec. 1
A salary cap is the central dividing issue: owners have proposed one for the first time since 1994, while the players' union has long treated it as a non-starter. November is expected to be the pivotal month before an anticipated lockout that would shut down free agency and trades, with an informal March 2027 deadline before regular-season games would be at risk.
MLBAward races: Yordan Alvarez runs away with AL MVP, Pete Crow-Armstrong chasing history in NL
Alvarez is a heavy betting favorite after Aaron Judge's rib and calf injuries effectively ended his own MVP case; Crow-Armstrong is threatening to lead MLB in both offensive and defensive runs above average with an outside shot at the Cubs' single-season WAR record. Cam Schlittler leads the AL Cy Young race and Jacob Misiorowski has a wide lead in the NL.
MLBMLB owners approve Padres sale to Feliciano/Jones investor group
The roughly $4 billion sale to Clearlake Capital's Jose E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones was approved in August; separately, Angels owner Arte Moreno has agreed to sell to Stan Kroenke at a record $4 billion valuation, pending an ownership-committee and league vote expected to close in early 2027.
MLBPlayoff picture tightens in the final week
Atlanta, Milwaukee and the Dodgers have clinched their divisions; Tampa Bay, the Yankees, Boston and Philadelphia have clinched playoff berths. Cleveland leads the White Sox by one game in the AL Central, Texas leads Houston by 1.5 in the AL West, and the Cubs, Padres and Phillies remain locked in a tight race for the NL's final two wild-card spots.
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BC Place, Vancouver · Jul 7, 2026 · SUI win 4–3 on pens
On paper this was the tie the bracket said Switzerland would lose — Colombia the form pick, the fashionable pick, the pick of everyone filling in their knockout grid in pen. Nought-nought said otherwise: ninety minutes, then thirty more, of a game that refused to be settled the honest way, until it came down to the lottery nobody wants…