📆 Pohlad family to retain Twins ownership

Home Run Overturned, New Bears Stadium Struggles, Pacers New Coach, John Wall Retirement, and more!

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Sportie Newsletter
August 19, 2025

⚾️ Baseball

Pohlad family to retain Twins ownership

The Pohlad family announced an update on the Minnesota Twins sale process.

After months of speculation, the Pohlad family, long-time owners of the Minnesota Twins, have announced they will no longer sell the Major League Baseball franchise. Instead, the family will remain the principal owner while introducing two significant limited partnership groups to the team’s ownership structure.

The new limited partnership groups include one composed of Minnesota investors and another of an East Coast family. While the identities of these groups remain undisclosed pending Major League Baseball approval, they will hold seats on the team’s board of directors. However, they will not have a path to controlling ownership.

Padres' Xander Bogaerts has HR taken away

Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts sent a deep fly to left field that ended up in the seats and was initially ruled a home run. It appeared to have slipped out of Giants left fielder Heliot Ramos' glove and into the seats. 

After review, it was overturned and Bogaerts was ruled out due to fan interference.

The explanation on site was that a fan "reached out over the field of play and interfered with a live ball," hence the overturn. 

🏈 Football

Bears face uphill battle to sway lawmakers on new stadium approval

Even if the Bears were forced to pay off the $525M in outstanding public debt from the “controversial 2003 Soldier Field renovation,” that alone is “unlikely to be enough to satisfy city lawmakers who are key in providing the necessary votes to advance any legislation to help the team” build a new stadium, according to a front-page piece by Pearson, Gorner & Olander of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

The Bears’ “playbook” for constructing a new domed stadium in Arlington Heights “calls for state lawmakers to act in October to approve property tax break legislation that would allow them to break ground this year.” However, the Bears’ hole “may have grown deeper,” with legislators from the city “potentially seeking additional funding

NFLPA on schedule: 'No one wants to play an 18th game'

NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. pushed back against NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's recent statement that safety data doesn't discourage expanding the regular season.

"Frankly, we're not sure how he's reaching that conclusion based on the data we've been given access to," Howell said during the NFLPA's annual news conference Wednesday.

Howell was asked about the NFLPA's current stance on an 18-game season two days after Goodell's state of the league news conference. Goodell said Monday that 18 regular-season games and two preseason games "might be a possibility," citing safety data that put concussions at a historically low level during the 2024 season.

🏀 Basketball

Rick Carlisle agrees to multi-year extension with Indiana Pacers

According to NBA Insider Marc Stein, the Indiana Pacers are going to sign head coach Rick Carlisle to a contract extension.

Carlisle has led the way for the Pacers this decade, guiding them to an Eastern Conference Finals appearance in 2024 and an NBA Finals appearance this season, where they lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games.

John Wall, 5-time All-Star, retires after 11 NBA seasons

John Wall is retiring after 11 NBA seasons.

Wall, 34, played most of his career with the Washington Wizards after they made him the first overall pick in the 2010 draft out of Kentucky. The five-time All-Star point guard finishes his NBA career with averages of 18.7 points and 8.9 assists per game.

“Today, I’m stepping off of the court, but not away from the game,” Wall said in a social media post on Tuesday. “Basketball will always be in my life, and new opportunities present themselves. I feel now is the time to walk confidently into my next chapter.”