The frustrating part about watching the Michigan sign-stealing scandal play out for Todd Berry, the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, is that it all could have been avoided.

HOUSTON — Dusty Baker has retired as manager of the Houston Astros, ending an illustrious 26-year career as a big league skipper highlighted by a World Series win last season.

INDIANAPOLIS — The NBA All-Star Game is going back to its roots, with the best of the East playing the best of the West.

Tickets for the last two Southeastern Conference championship games were purchased in the name of a suspended Michigan football staffer who is the focus of an NCAA investigation into an alleged sign-stealing scheme, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Coach Kyle Shanahan saw the new wrinkle his former assistant Mike McDaniel added to the Miami offense by putting speedster Tyreek Hill in short motion at the snap and immediately added it to the San Francisco offense.

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants have hired manager Bob Melvin away from the division rival San Diego Padres, three people with direct knowledge of the agreement said Tuesday.

(AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers will be shopping for starting pitching this offseason after it cost them dearly in a first-round playoff exit for the second straight year. The biggest arm on the impending free-agent market will be Los Angeles Angels two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. He can hit but he won’t pitch next year since he’s coming off his second Tommy John surgery. That won’t stop the Dodgers from pursuing him, but it means they’ll need to look elsewhere, too.

BOULDER, Colo. — When Deion Sanders arrived in Boulder to resurrect Colorado’s slumbering football program he not only brought his sons Sheduer, a star quarterback, and Shilo, a star safety, but also his youngest child, Shelomi, a redshirt freshman point guard on the women’s basketball team.

No. 2 Michigan announced Friday it has suspended a low-level football program employee a day after disclosing it is under NCAA investigation for allegedly stealing the play-calling signals used by Wolverines opponents.

BEREA, Ohio — Deshaun Watson’s official status for Sunday’s game at Indianapolis is questionable.

SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama’s first win of his rookie season with the San Antonio Spurs came with no fans present, no referees around and didn’t even require the use of a basketball.

The king of American sports wants to take over the world.

PHILADELPHIA — James Harden vowed he would never play for a franchise run by 76ers team president Daryl Morey.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Los Angeles Rams cornerback Derion Kendrick hopes to play Sunday despite spending nearly three days in police custody this week after he was arrested and eventually charged with two gun offenses.

PHOENIX — Philadelphia’s hot bats went down in a wave of whiffs.

It was all like something out of some sort of feel-good sports movie.

Defending champion LSU is ranked No. 1 in the women’s preseason AP Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time in school history.

BOULDER, Colo. — For a conference with teams about to scatter in all directions, the Pac-12 sure looks rosy at the moment.