Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa has a foot injury that could land him on the injured list, manager Rocco Baldelli said Wednesday.

An MRI exam confirmed a muscle strain in the arch of Correa's left foot in addition to plantar fasciitis in his heel.

"I think we get to Friday and some of our decisions might be made for us," Baldelli said when asked about a trip to the 10-day injured list.

Correa, 28, was not in the lineup against the visiting San Francisco Giants for the second straight day Wednesday.

The two-time All-Star is batting .213 with six homers, 24 RBIs and 14 runs scored in 44 games this season.

The Boston Red Sox are moving two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber to the bullpen.

Manager Alex Cora confirmed the decision Wednesday during an interview on WEEI.

Kluber is 2-6 with a 6.26 ERA through nine starts in his first season with the Red Sox.

The 37-year-old right-hander has struck out 34 batters, walked 18 and allowed 11 home runs in 41⅔ innings.

A three-time All-Star, Kluber finalized a one-year, $10 million deal with Boston in January.

Kluber is 115-77 with a 3.39 ERA in 265 games (260 starts) with the Cleveland franchise (2011-19), Texas Rangers (2020), New York Yankees (2021), Tampa Bay Rays (2022) and Red Sox.

He won American League Cy Young Awards with Cleveland in 2014 and 2017.

Investigation is underway after the organisation receives complaint that leading official joined in social media attacks

Ian Roberts has stepped back from his position as chair of the English Schools’ Athletics Association (ESAA) while an investigation takes place into the role he allegedly played in a case of online bullying.

Roberts, who is also the ESAA’s welfare lead, is accused of joining in with an online attack that athletics official Paul Baxter directed at Katey Ross, a volunteer administrator on the popular Facebook group I Was, Or Am, A Runner.

Baxter was recently given a three-and-a-half-year ban by UK Athletics for online bullying and harassment of Ross, with an inquiry now underway to look into the part Roberts played in it.

AW has seen the social media posts that have led to the complaints, although the messages have since been deleted.

“I became aware of an allegation by Katey Ross, so I voluntarily stepped back from my roles to enable an investigation to be carried out by the ESAA,” said Roberts, who did not want to comment further while the investigation was ongoing.

The ESAA is building up to its flagship track and field championships in Birmingham in a month’s time and it will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025. Yet it did not have an appropriate complaints procedure to deal with this case and initially approached England Athletics for assistance before choosing to handle it in-house.

The ESAA receives funding from England Athletics but is otherwise an independent organisation run by volunteer officials who are largely teachers or ex-teachers. So whereas it was originally unclear which body would investigate the accusations, the ESAA has belatedly created its own complaints procedure which is being checked by a legal team before the inquiry begins.

Ross made her complaint to the ESAA about Roberts at the end of April and told AW that soon afterwards she was surprised to receive an email from him where he denied knowing Baxter and claimed his contributions to the abuse – which included adding a GIF – were a joke.

“Mr Roberts not only joined in with the very personal attacks upon me but highlighted his position as ESAA chair within the comments, adding significant weight to the bullying,” said Ross. “Like many others I regard ESAA as a hugely important organisation in the sport – and one very dear to my heart as a former eight-time ESAA athlete. How someone in the position of chair and welfare lead at ESAA wouldn’t recognise such serious online abuse and bullying by a large group of men, let alone contribute to it, is beyond me.”

The Lawn Tennis Association made an overall loss of £16.4m in 2022, latest figures show.

World governing bodies the ATP and WTA fined the LTA a total of £1.4m, although about £300,000 of that sum is to be repaid by the WTA as Russians and Belarusians are able to play this year.

The cost of staging major events has also risen significantly since the last comparable (pre-pandemic) year of 2019. Just over £36m was spent on staging the grass-court tournaments, a group stage of the Davis Cup Finals and the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Glasgow.

The operating loss was £9.5m, which rises to £16.4m when a fall in the value of investments is factored in. The LTA puts this down to "significant volatility in international markets" and says it expects these investments to recover in the years ahead.

"Although the financial picture was challenging this year, taken as a whole, the past four years have resulted in a loss of £6.4m despite the pandemic, volatility in world markets and unforeseen factors such as the fines from the ATP and WTA - whilst during this time we delivered significant growth for the sport," the LTA chief executive Scott Lloyd said.

His own pay packet in 2022 totalled £572,000, which is an increase of 28.5% on the previous year.

"This figure is total remuneration including all salary, bonus and pension payments," an LTA spokesman said.

"It is regularly benchmarked against other organisations - nevertheless it is lower than the equivalent at other major sporting national governing bodies."

Just over £43m of the LTA's annual revenue of nearly £80m came from the profits of Wimbledon.

It spends that money primarily on staging major events, developing the performance side of British tennis and trying to increase participation.

The latest Sport England Active Lives survey showed a 43% increase in participation in the year to November 2022.

The previous period may have been affected by the pandemic, but the survey recorded its highest ever number of people who had played tennis at least twice in the 28 days before they were questioned.

Harriet Dart and Fran Jones were among the British players who saw their French Open hopes ended in the second qualifying round on Wednesday.

World number 316 Jones was left in tears after she was forced to retire from her match against Ylena In-Albon.

The 22-year-old, who stunned former grand slam semi-finalist Coco Vandeweghe on Monday, had trailed 4-1.

Jones, unable to continue because of a shoulder injury at Roland Garros, has a congenital condition which means she is missing one finger on each hand and three toes.

In the men's draw, British number seven Ryan Peniston and Jan Choinski both lost after winning the first set in their respective matches.

Peniston went ahead against eighth seed Radu Albot but the Romanian came back to clinch a 2-6 6-2 6-4 win.

Meanwhile, Choinski was beaten 3-6 6-4 6-0 by Austrian Sebastian Ofner.

Katie Boulter and Liam Broady will bid to reach the third and final qualifying round later.

The main draw of the clay-court Grand Slam at Roland Garros starts on Sunday.

Fellow Britons Heather Watson, Katie Swan and Lily Miyazaki were beaten in the first round of qualifying on Tuesday.

Britain draw home tie for Billie Jean King Cup play-offs

It was announced on Wednesday that Great Britain will play their Billie Jean King Cup play-off tie against Sweden at home in November.

The winners will earn the chance to qualify for the 2024 Finals, while the losers will be relegated to a regional competition.

Each play-off tie will consist of five matches, with two singles matches on the first day and two singles matches followed by a doubles match on the second day.

The draw for this year's Finals, which will be held in Seville, has thrown up a strong group involving defending champions Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the United States.

Sale Sharks centre Manu Tuilagi believes winning the club's first Premiership title since 2006 would give rugby union in the north a major boost.

"After 17 years, for Sale to get this opportunity is huge for us as players," Tuilagi, 32, told BBC Sport.

"We have the opportunity to do something great for the people of the north and the Sharks organisation."

The England centre added: "We've been waiting for a long time and it's massive. We can't wait and will give everything."

Sale have reached their first final since the club was taken over by an investment group led by Ged Mason and Simon Orange in June 2016.

Tuilagi, a Premiership winner with Leicester Tigers in 2013 when he scored a try in a final victory over Northampton, joined Sale in 2020 while former Sharks flanker Alex Sanderson was appointed as director of rugby in January 2021.

"I've had a great time here so far and I think it's special what we have," Tuilagi added.

"What Alex, Simon and Ged are building is amazing, in terms of the environment. It's challenging and making everyone grow."

In February Sale launched a 'Northern Rugby Matters' campaign to increase awareness of - and celebrate - the 15-man code in a region which has an abundance of rugby league sides.

Sale, in 2005-06, and Newcastle Falcons, in 1997-98, are the only two clubs north of the Midlands to have won the Premiership title.

"When I turn around at games where we've had near sell-outs, then you start to get a feeling that you are having an impact," Sanderson said.

"The better you do, the further you reach.

"I want to win. It's my home town and home team. They're selfish reasons but the wider purpose is to win it for the region. If we do that then how humbling is that?"

Former England back row Sanderson spent 15 years on Saracens' coaching staff before his move back to Sale, and Tuilagi credits the 43-year-old with transforming the club's fortunes.

"Alex has changed a lot of things," he told BBC North West Tonight.

"It is more of a collective. Getting everyone on the same page is the toughest part.

"I'd take my hat off to him because getting 50 or 60 blokes who come from all over the world, with different backgrounds, beliefs and ideas, and to get them all on the same page is hard.

"For us as a club we're fortunate and blessed that we're in the position that we are. We're enjoying our rugby as well."

Eddie Jones says it was an easy decision to name "standout" Alun Wyn Jones as his Barbarians captain to face a World XV at Twickenham on Sunday.

The former England coach says he used to hate coaching against world-record cap holder Jones, who last week announced his retirement from the international game.

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DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars have apologized to the Vegas Golden Knights and the NHL after their fans tossed debris at opposing players during Game 3 of the Western Conference final on Tuesday night.

The Stars lost 4-0 as the Golden Knights moved to one victory from a conference final sweep.

"On behalf of the Dallas Stars organization, I would like to apologize to the Vegas Golden Knights and the National Hockey League for the actions of a few of our spectators at last night's game. Their actions were unacceptable and put the safety of the players and fans at risk," said Brad Alberts, Dallas Stars president and CEO.

With their team down 4-0, fans littered the ice with plastic bottles and garbage in protest and frustration.

Near the end of the second period, Dallas forward Max Domi hit Vegas defenseman Nicolas Hague from behind, sending him to the ice. He then skated to Hague to throw a couple of gloved punches at him. Domi was given cross-checking and roughing minors as well as a 10-minute misconduct.

With debris hitting the ice, the referees had the players leave for their dressing rooms with 21.6 seconds remaining in the second period for their safety.

"Everybody in the building was frustrated," Stars coach Peter DeBoer said.

The frustration started early. Stars captain Jamie Benn was ejected less than two minutes into the game for a cross-check to the jaw of Vegas captain Mark Stone. Benn has a hearing with the department of player safety on Wednesday. Dallas had taken three penalties in the second period before Domi's.

The debris tossing continued when the players returned to finish the game. Vegas goalie Adin Hill was hit with a bag of popcorn as he walked out after intermission.

"I guess everything was hitting me tonight," joked Hill, who made 34 saves for his first NHL playoff shutout.

Stars players defended their fans and blamed themselves after the loss.

"They were engaged, they wanted it as much as we did and they showed it in that way," forward Joe Pavelski said. "You don't like to see it, but we have to be better for them."

Forward Tyler Seguin agreed. "Yeah, we don't love it. We have amazing fans here. That's out of character for them. But we put them in that position. They're emotional, just like us. So we've got to do better," he said.

Alberts said the fans who tossed debris weren't representative of all Dallas fans.

"We take pride in providing the best experience for everyone who enters our arena," he said. "The actions of these individuals certainly do not reflect our great city, organization and loyal fan base."

Game 4 is Thursday night in Dallas, with the Golden Knights up 3-0 in the series.

SUNRISE, Fla. -- Florida Panthers' captain Aleksander Barkov will be back in the lineup for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday after leaving the first period of Game 3 with a lower-body injury.

The Panthers lead their best-of-seven series with Carolina 3-0 and can reach a Stanley Cup Final for the second time in franchise history with a victory in Wednesday's tilt.

"Ready to roll," was how Florida coach Paul Maurice classified Barkov following the Panthers' morning skate, which Barkov was a full participant in. "Freshest guy on the ice," he said.

There was 7:04 remaining in the first period of Monday's game when Barkov took a hip check from Carolina forward Nick Drury and immediately retired to Florida's dressing room. His return was deemed "questionable" from there.

The shorthanded Panthers went on to beat Carolina 1-0. Maurice joked in explanation for Barkov's absence that the center was "at a bar mitzvah. ... He didn't want to disappoint the kids." The Panthers' coach clarified Tuesday that Barkov's injury wasn't serious, and his health status would be reevaluated prior to Game 4, when Florida would make a decision on his availability.

Having Barkov centering the Panthers' top line again is a major boost. He's tallied four goals and 12 points in 15 playoff games so far and is Florida's most trusted performer in the faceoff dot.

It's not just Barkov's on-ice abilities that impact the Panthers. Maurice stressed Wednesday morning that Barkov's leadership and attitude are just as critical for Florida, especially when so much is on the line in this postseason.

"He's possibly uncomfortable with the idea that he's talked about more than other players," said Maurice. "He would think [the other] 13 forwards are every bit as important as he is, and he believes it and that's the way he treats everybody. Most guys, they think that when they get to that elite level, they do have this kind of ego ... but he seems to be completely devoid of ego and still pushes himself very hard. I think a lot of the time he's a driver for his teammates."

A Northern California judge clarified a question of timing that led to legal challenges in four other U.S. Circuit Courts. But the antitrust case filed against the PGA Tour last year by LIV Golf remains in limbo as both sides await a likely appeal.

Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled Wednesday that subpoenas for depositions and documents in the case served to four witnesses – Kevin Kisner, Cameron Young, James Hahn and player manager Mark Steinberg – were properly served.

Kisner, Young, Hahn and Steinberg challenged the subpoenas in four separate courts, claiming they were untimely. A judge in Georgia granted Kisner’s motion to quash the subpoena for numerous reasons, including the request being “unduly burdensome” and failing to meet the court’s deadline.

Labson Freeman, however, ruled the deadline to serve subpoenas to “non-parties” like Kisner and the others is June 6.

Although the ruling cleared up the most recent discovery dispute, the case remains mired in uncertainty as the court awaits a ruling from the 9^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on whether that court will hear an appeal from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and its governor, who have been named co-defendants in the Tour’s countersuit but have claimed they’re not subject to U.S. jurisdiction because of sovereign immunity.

In a video hearing Monday, Labson Freeman reiterated her desire to continue with discovery despite the uncertainty of the appeal, and attorneys for the Tour continued to stress their opposition to the current case schedule.

“Obviously the lawsuit has changed. The players are all gone now. This is about LIV/PIF and the Tour. I say LIV/PIF because we know they are one in the same. LIV really is PIF. LIV wants to go ahead quickly [with the case], but PIF makes decision that slows down the case,” argued Elliot Peters, the Tour’s lead attorney.

Although Labson Freeman allowed for the uncertainty of the appeal for some deadlines, most notably the deadline for expert discovery, she remained committed to the current May 17, 2024, trial date.

“It is very important to preserve the evidence now,” Labson Freeman said. “The longer it takes to go to trial the more important it is to do the discovery now.”

The next case management conference is scheduled for Aug. 24 and Labson Freeman ruled that will be an “in person” hearing in San Jose, California.