Who's on first in Tokyo? It may not be anyone from Major League Baseball. The 2020 summer Olympics are edging closer, but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has raised doubts over whether players will compete there, noting participation would necessitate an MLB shutdown for the duration of the Games.

When Gianni Infantino says he needs an open-door policy in countries that want to host the FIFA World Cup, he's looking at you, Donald Trump. The FIFA president has sent a clear message that nations must allow any team who qualifies and their supporters access to the country.

Group fighting hasn't been a team sport since, oh, the days of Christians and lions, but leave it to an entrepreneur to bring it back. A (no kidding) controversial politician in Russia wants to turn so-called hooliganism (dictionary definition: fans fighting one another) into a spectator sport.

If you've been waiting for answers on the safety of synthetic turf, there's good news and bad news, and the bad news has nothing to do with turf itself. And the good news will help event owners breathe a little easier as they go about selecting fields for sports.

While it appears North Carolina's House Bill 2 is going nowhere (at least for now), Atlantic Coast Conference officials are now at the point where they need to take conference tournaments just about anywhere. And that means the search is on, or soon will be.

When a new 15,000-square-foot eSports facility opened March 3 in Las Vegas by hosting a Halo World Championship qualifier with $50,000 in prizes, it was a first for the United States. But it's all been-there-done-that, for Katowice, a small southwestern city in Poland.