The Braves have no immediate plans to retire Jones’ number, team spokesman Brad Hainje told Sporting News. MORE: 10 greatest Braves of all time | Braves need to retire No. 25 The Braves have no set standards for whether to retire a number, Hainje said, but it “comes down to a consensus among the people deciding on each candidate’s specific contributions to our organization.” “It is a decision that is made on a case-by-case basis by our executive management team,” Hainje said later....

Keep up to date with all the Deadline Day rumours! The 25-year-old Serbia international moves to Selhurst Park for a fee reported to be in the region of £11million. “I am delighted to bring Luka to the club,” manager Sam Allardyce told Palace’s official website. “He has experience in the Champions League and international football and will add a new dimension to our midfield. “He is a talented two-footed player with intelligent passing ability as well as being very strong defensively, in and out of possession....

Zidane is Real’s kingpin, not Ronaldo The Benin striker has joined on a deal which ties him to the Riverside Stadium until June 2020. Gestede moved to Villa from Blackburn Rovers in July 2015 and scored nine goals in 50 league appearances for the West Midlands club, who were relegated last season. Middlesbrough, promoted as Championship runners-up in the same campaign, are four points above the Premier League’s bottom three after 20 games, having won just one of their last six matches....

The 24-year-old France international has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal to become the Bundesliga club’s fourth signing of the transfer window, following the arrivals of Yunus Malli, Victor Osimhen and Riechedly Bazoer. Why I rejected Arsenal - Osimhen “Wolfsburg have secured the services of Paul-Georges Ntep from French first division side Stade Rennes,” the club confirmed via an official statement. “The fee involved in the transfer of the attacker, who will begin training with the Green-Whites in La Manga on Monday, remains undisclosed....

The Animal Rescue League of Iowa is currently investigating after a Great Dane was found emaciated and locked in a crate without food or water. “He was trapped in a wire crate and he was literally a skeleton,” ARL shared in a statement. Officers responded to a tip about the animal, but were left shocked at what they found. When the officer arrived at the apartment, she found the dog named Kai shut inside the crate “wasting away in an apartment where people were living and no one was helping him....

Democrats do not understand how much Republicans resented, and learned from, what Democrats did in 1964. Lyndon Johnson’s campaign against Goldwater was the most spectacularly successful negative campaign of modern times. Goldwater was-still is-the most amiable of men. Richard Rovere called him “the cheerful malcontent” and said that in personal relations he was “about as abrasive as a jar of cold cream.” But the Johnson campaign portrayed him as a wild man who as president would delay incinerating the planet only until he had time to dismantle the government....

DeWine told PBS Firing Line host Margaret Hoover that while he ultimately holds himself responsible for legislative decisions that impact Ohioans, he would have preferred it if the president got behind the mask movement sooner. “I’m not going to blame the president for what we do or what we don’t do in Ohio,” DeWine said. “The buck stops with me in making these decisions. Would I have preferred him to do it earlier?...

It’s simply charming. MORE MARCH MADNESS: Live scores | Updated bracket | TV schedule Ohio, a 13 seed, upset defending national champion Virginia 62-58 in the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. It was part of a record-setting weekend as four teams seeded No. 13 or lower won in the first round for the first time in the expanded bracket era, which began in 1985. The Bobcats joined No. 15 Oral Roberts, No....

Butler County Sheriff and Trump supporter Richard K. Jones is going viral once again for offering to provide a one-way ticket for famous faces who have said they plan to leave the country if Joe Biden doesn’t win. “My Offer Still Stands,” Butler said in a Facebook post. “Sheriff Richard K. Jones states it’s that time of election year again. Celebrities threatening to leave the United States if the President is re-elected,” the press release reads....

The Wall Street Journal obtained a copy of the songbook and what it found was disturbing. An introduction to the songbook attempted to inform readers that the songs could be offensive. MORE: Sporting News unveils preseason Top 25 | College football’s biggest bands “Some of these [songs] may be offensive to you. If so, you can either ignore them, or you can suck it up, act like you got a pair and have a good time singing them," the introduction read....

The 26-year-old male bicyclist suffered a head injury, but is expected to fine. MORE: CFB Week 4 picks “We are very concerned about the young man who was injured,” said Chris Davey, assistant vice president for media relations for Ohio State. “Our concern lies with supporting him in every way we can.” The incident is still under investigation. Schiano, 50, is in his first year with Ohio State after spending the 2015 season out of coaching....

The Buckeyes (3-1) easily dispatched Akron 59-7 in Week 4, but they also made more headlines, this time for another reason. Linebacker K’Vaughan Pope appeared to quit the team mid-game after attempting to enter as a substitute, only to get waved off. According to Austin Ward of Lettermen Row, Pope got into multiple heated discussions on the sideline and eventually caught the attention of coach Ryan Day before being escorted to the locker room....

As first reported by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the deal is worth $25 million over five years. Holland just completed his 22nd season as GM of the Detroit Red Wings winning three Stanley Cups and four Presidents’ Trophies in that time. He signed a new contract in April and was promoted to senior vice president to make room to hire Steve Yzerman as the new general manager. The decision is now up to Holland....

Each time, I would raise my hand–ignoring the look of chagrin on my daughter’s face–and ask how the school was defending itself against what may be an increasingly synthetic creation. With admissions summer camps, private counselors and high-school curriculums even incorporating tips on how to write a personal essay, were colleges actually getting to know the kid or, rather, some combination of parents, English teacher and high-priced tutor? But each college official I queried insisted they maintain the ability to judge....

It was a decision necessitated by poor play from Rattler, who for the second straight year was benched in the Red River Showdown. Unlike last season, however, Rattler did not come back out to lead the Sooners to victory, as he watched Williams lead the team to the largest comeback in the history of the rivalry. MORE: Texas vs. Oklahoma final score: Sooners complete massive comeback for Red River Showdown victory...

Unfortunately for Ford, he’s recognizable in Stillwater, Okla., as the Oklahoma State basketball coach. MORE: College basketball cheerleaders for the 2015-16 season | Minnesota HS game ends on full-court buzzer-beater Ford said something during Stillwater High School’s 63-51 loss to Bartlesville that got the attention of one of the officials. Stillwater radio’s Bill Van Ness said the game was stopped and Ford was escorted from the gym. Van Ness said “a regular parent” probably would have been ignored....

Down 31-10 at halftime in Waco, Texas, Oklahoma scored 24 unanswered points in the second half to win 34-31 and keep its season alive, while ending the Bears’ nine-game undefeated run. Both teams arrive into Saturday’s game in Arlington, Texas, with an 11-1 record after Baylor thumped Kansas 61-6 and Oklahoma defeated then-No. 21 Oklahoma State University 34-16 on the road. The wins kept both programs in the hunt for a College Football Playoff spot, with the Sooners rising one spot to No....

The Line: Oklahoma -15, Total: 47 Line movement: The Wynn opened the Sooners at -15, a spread that stayed put through early wagering. There were some 14.5s available at midweek. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page. Trends that matter: The UNDER is 8-0-1 in Texas’ last nine games (4-0-1 this year)….The OVER is 7-1-1 in Oklahoma’s last nine games (4-1 this year)....

BY MARC LEVINSON WITH THERESA WALDROP SCANDALS: GERMANY’S BIG LENDERS COME UNDER FIRE SCHADENFREUDE-JOY at another’s misfortune-doesn’t translate easily into English. But no word better describes Germans’ glee over the misadventures rocking the twin towers of Europe’s second largest financial institution, the powerful Deutsche Bank. The sudden collapse of a real-estate empire has left Deutsche officials stammering to offer explanations-and may open a chance for foreigners to break into Germany’s tightknit financial industry....