Newsmakers
Signed Kentucky coach John Calipari on Wednesday signed a one-year contract extension through 2022 that will pay him a total of $54 million. Calipari’s latest contract extension follows Tuesday’s announcement that he wasn’t interested in the coaching vacancy with the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans or any other job, adding that he’s happy at Kentucky.
• The Ottawa Senators signed goaltender Andrew Hammond to a $4.05-million, three-year contract. Hammond, whose spectacular late-season run got the Senators into the playoffs, will make $1.2 million next season, $1.35 million in 2016-17 and $1.5 million in 2017-18.
• Mercedes says Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton signed a new 3-year deal. Since leaving McLaren in 2013, Hamilton has competed in 43 races, winning 15 and securing a further 11 podium finishes to replace four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel as the sport’s No. 1 driver.
Announced Speedway Motorsports executive chairman Bruton Smith and two-time Sprint Cup champion Terry Labonte headed up the newest group of five headed to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The others selected to the hall’s seventh class were NASCAR drivers Curtis Turner and Bobby Isaac and modified series champion Jerry Cook.
• NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski is a first-time father, welcoming a daughter this week. Keselowski’s girlfriend, Paige White, gave birth to the couple’s first child.
• Retired AC Milan standout Paolo Maldini and TV rights entrepreneur Riccardo Silva are launching the Miami Football Club in the North American Soccer League. Miami FC plans to start playing in 2016.
• Nick Foligno served as a captain for the NHL All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio. Now he’ll wear the “C” for the Blue Jackets. The 27-year-old Foligno was announced as the club’s first captain in almost three years.
Scheduled Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is set to be arraigned today on a charge he tried to silence a witness in a double murder case by shooting him in the face. He was convicted last month in the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd, who was dating his fiancee’s sister.
Elevated The Boston Bruins elevated Don Sweeney to general manager. Sweeney spent the past six seasons as the assistant general manager and takes over for his former boss, Peter Chiarelli, who was fired last month after the team missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years.