Football
XFL: Former wrestling star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had acquired the XFL.
Johnson, 48, made the announcement Monday on Twitter. The value would be $15 million.
The XFL had 8 franchises and played on a scheduled 10-game schedule before canceling the rest of its season in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He attracted decent early TV ratings and made deals with ESPN and Fox.
The league suspended operations and fired all workers on April 10 and filed for bankruptcy on April 13.
Since the end of his wrestling career, Johnson has a movie star, especially in the “Fast and Furious” and “Jumanji” franchises.
Spring football is a tough challenge, as the Football Alliance discovered in 2019, which also doesn’t last a full season.
An earlier edition of the XFL played one season in 2001.
Baseball
MLB: Cleveland manager Terry Francona will miss at least the next two games at the club due to a gastrointestinal problem that has been concerned for months.
The Indians said he was under the same challenge that led to the loss of some spring practice games in Arizona in March. The team stated that Francona’s disease is not similar to COVID-19.
Francona was scheduled to be reviewed Monday through doctors at the Cleveland Clinic. He will remain in Cleveland, the Indians’ two-game series in Cincinnati. Team president Chris Antonetti said the team would “take a step at a time” and it was too early to know when the 61-year-old manager would return.
The Indians return home Wednesday for two more games with the Reds before a three-game game to Chicago to face the White Sox.
Francona, who is in his eighth season with Cleveland, was unsorry before the team’s Sunday game in Minnesota. After making his media availability before the game, he left the ballpark and returned to the team’s hotel when the Indians finished their first path to the condensed 2020 season and a four-game series with the Twins.
Tennis
MURRAY RECEIVES SAVAGE CARD: Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray, one of four men who won wild-card tickets Monday for the Flushing Meadows concentrate tournament before the U.S. Open.
Murray won the Western and South Open in 2008 and 2011. The hard court occasion is held regularly in Cincinnati, but moves to the US Open site as a component of efforts to host a professional tennis festival, the coronavirus pandemic.
It also reaps wildcard benefits for the ATP Masters 1000 tournament: Tommy Paul, Tennys Sandgren and Frances Tiafoe.
The draw will be held from 22 to 28 August. The U.S. Open begins on August 31.
Murray, 33, has had hip surgery twice and has played an official fit since Davis Cup last November. He won Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016 and the US Open in 2012.
The Western and South Open will be the first official time of the men’s excursion in more than five months. Sanctioned tennis was suspended in March due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the women’s excursion returns this week to Palermo, Italy.
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