Day: February 1, 2017

Rangers give coach Alain Vigneault two-year extension (Sports Betting News)Rangers give coach Alain Vigneault two-year extension (Sports Betting News)

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017| 1:15

New York Rangers head coach Alain Vigneault , top, gives instructions in the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Alain Vigneault didn’t have to think long about whether he wanted an extension with the New York Rangers. Vigneault and the Rangers announced a new two-year deal Tuesday that runs through the 2019-20 season. ”It was a pretty easy decision as far as you’re a coach and you want to have a chance and you got a first-class organization,” the 55-year-old Vigneault said.

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Former Cards exec said to accuse Astros in hacking case (Sports Betting News)Former Cards exec said to accuse Astros in hacking case (Sports Betting News)

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017| 0:24

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011, file photo, then-St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Christopher Correa, left, assistant general manager Mike Girsch, center, and general manager John Mozeliak, right, arrive at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Mo. Major League Baseball ordered the Cardinals to forfeit their top two picks in this years amateur draft and pay Houston $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros email system and scouting database. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred banned former St. Louis scouting executive Correa for life on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, and stripped the Cardinals of the 56th and 75th draft choices in June. (Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

A statement on a Twitter account attributed to a former Cardinals scouting executive convicted of hacking into the Astros’ computer system said Houston had earlier ”unauthorized access” into the St. Louis computer system. Christopher Correa, the Cardinals former director of baseball development, is serving a 46-month prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer.

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Former Cards exec said to accuse Astros in hacking case (Sports Betting News)Former Cards exec said to accuse Astros in hacking case (Sports Betting News)

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017| 0:24

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011, file photo, then-St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Christopher Correa, left, assistant general manager Mike Girsch, center, and general manager John Mozeliak, right, arrive at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Mo. Major League Baseball ordered the Cardinals to forfeit their top two picks in this years amateur draft and pay Houston $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros email system and scouting database. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred banned former St. Louis scouting executive Correa for life on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, and stripped the Cardinals of the 56th and 75th draft choices in June. (Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

A statement on a Twitter account attributed to a former Cardinals scouting executive convicted of hacking into the Astros’ computer system said Houston had earlier ”unauthorized access” into the St. Louis computer system. Christopher Correa, the Cardinals former director of baseball development, is serving a 46-month prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer.

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