Sports briefs
Scully hospitalized after fall at home
Retired Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully has been hospitalized after falling at his Los Angeles-area home.
The team says the 92-year-old fell Tuesday and was taken to the hospital for observation. Scully is resting comfortably and is expected to be released soon.
“I won’t be doing anymore head-first sliding,” he said in a quote posted on the team’s Twitter account. “I never liked it.”
Scully retired after the 2016 season, ending a career in which he called Dodgers games for 67 years. He began in 1950 when the team was located in Brooklyn. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
N.C. considers NASCAR without fansThe governor of North Carolina is still considering a request to allow NASCAR to race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.
Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday extended the state’s stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus through May 8 and said he would gradually open the state in three phases.
Cooper says teams can go back to work under the state’s executive order and are permitted to work in their race shops if they maintain social distancing guidelines.
NASCAR has been hoping to hold the Coca-Cola 600 as scheduled on May 24 without spectators and has made its request to Cooper.
The governors of both Florida and Texas have already said NASCAR is welcome to race in their states without spectators, and South Carolina and Georgia are gradually easing restrictions.
Perks approved for Carolina’s practice HQA county in South Carolina approved a deal loaded with tax breaks for the Carolina Panthers to move their headquarters and practice site.
The York County Council approved the deal in a 4-3 vote after listening to public comments during their virtual meeting on Monday, news outlets reported. It follows a series of moves the state has made to attract the team’s headquarters.
The approved deal will give the Panthers relief from all property taxes in the City of Rock Hill for 20 to 25 years, according to the York County Council.
The Panthers first announced the move to Rock Hill last June during a celebration with Panthers owner David Tepper and several South Carolina politicians including Gov. Henry McMaster.
The Panthers will continue to play games at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium, where it has played since 1996.
AD: No talk about skipping football
Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack says there have been no discussions among Atlantic Coast Conference athletic directors about not playing football in the fall but declined to speculate on the near future.
“There are so many things that people have stated, that are floated out there, and the one thing I don’t want to do is engage in speculation,” Wildhack said Thursday on a conference call. “There’s so much that we don’t know. We don’t control this. It will be led by the progress we make against the virus.
“We (the Atlantic Coast Conference schools) have not had any discussions in terms of not playing. We want to play, we plan to play. What we don’t know is when we are going to start and what form or format we’re going to start. Do you play with fans? Do you not play with fans? So much is unknown.”
Wildhack said the situation will be clearer in mid- to late June. He said the consensus is that players would need six weeks to prepare.