VOGT STILL UNDER THE WEATHER

CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians manager Stephen Vogt will miss his second straight game Monday night because of a viral infection.

Bench coach Tony Arnerich, who is Vogt’s housemate in Cleveland, will serve as acting manager again when the Guardians host the Los Angeles Angels in the opener of a three-game series.

He said Vogt is feeling better and should be back in the dugout on Tuesday night.

“He is on the second floor, and I’m in the basement,” Arnerich said. “If we lose again, I might be out on the lawn.”

Arnerich managed the Guardians through a 5-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.

Vogt was the AL Manager of the Year in both 2024 and 2025, his first two seasons as a major league manager.

CLIPPERS TO PROMOTE GOOD

COLUMBIANA — The Columbiana Board of Education is expected to promote freshman boys basketball coach Andrew Good to its varsity girls basketball coaching position at Tuesday’s meeting.

Good replaces Dave Crismon who stepped down in March after eight seasons.

Crismon was 134-50 at Columbiana including winning back-to-back Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference titles in 2024 and 2025.

Columbiana was 17-6 this past season.

SOFTBALL TOURNEY STARTS TODAY

Sectional softball tournaments start today with a pair of games in the East District in Div. IV.

Top-seed Beaver Local, an OVAC and Buckeye 8 champion, will host No. 15 seed Philo, while No. 16 seed East Liverpool will be at No. 2 seed John Glenn.

Both games start at 5 p.m.

WEST BRANCH FALLS SHORT OF STATE

AKRON — West Branch’s girls flag football team came up one win shy of a berth in the state tournament as it fell 14-12 to Midview in a second round contest on Monday at the Cleveland Browns championship tournament at Infocision Stadium.

The Warriors (11-1) beat St. Clairsville 34-6 in the first round.

NJOKU SIGNS WITH CHARGERS

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Veteran tight end David Njoku agreed to a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday.

Njoku spent the first nine seasons of his NFL career with the Cleveland Browns, earning one Pro Bowl selection while catching 384 passes for 4,062 yards and 34 touchdowns. He is second in Browns franchise history to Ozzie Newsome for catches and TDs among tight ends, but he became a free agent in February.

Njoku missed significant parts of the past two seasons with injuries. He had 33 receptions for 293 yards and four touchdowns while appearing in 12 games last season.

Njoku could be a major contributor for the Chargers, who are rebooting Justin Herbert’s offense under new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel.

Three tight ends caught at least 15 passes in McDaniel’s offense with the Miami Dolphins last season. The Bolts’ only major contributor to the passing game as a tight end last season was rookie Oronde Gadsden, the fifth-round pick who had 49 catches for 664 yards and three TDs.

Veteran receiver Keenan Allen is still on the free-agent market, but starting receivers Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnston are returning to a Los Angeles passing offense that ranked 18th in the NFL last season despite another strong effort from Herbert, who earned his second Pro Bowl selection.

Los Angeles went 11-6 for the second straight season under head coach Jim Harbaugh but also lost in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year.

COLBERT WAS KNOWN FOR BUCKET HAT

Jim Colbert, renowned for wearing his bucket hat while winning eight times on the PGA Tour and 20 times on the PGA Tour Champions, has died, the PGA Tour announced. He was 85.

Colbert died on Sunday. The tour did not list a cause of death.

Colbert was a teenager playing a tournament in Kansas when he nearly collapsed from sunstroke, leading doctors to insist he start wearing a hat to protect himself. He chose a bucket hat, which became his trademark during his PGA Tour career.

Born in New Jersey, Colbert went to Kansas State on a football scholarship. He turned all his attention to golf after an injury and was runner-up in the NCAA Championship in 1964, and two years later was on the PGA Tour.

He won the first of his eight PGA Tour titles in the 1969 Monsanto Invitational Open. He had a pair of top 5s in the majors in 1974, a tie for fourth in the Masters and tied for fifth in the U.S. Open at Winged Foot.

His best season on the PGA Tour was in 1983 when he won twice and was 15th on the money list.

Colbert was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996, had surgery to remove his prostate and was back on the course two years later, winning The Transamerica.

He also was active in business. According to the PGA Tour, he bought his first golf course in Las Vegas in 1980. Jim Colbert Golf grew to own 23 golf courses, had 700 employees and gross revenue of $50 million.

Colbert, who lived the latter part of his life in Las Vegas, kept ties to Kansas State. The men’s and women’s golf teams play at Colbert Hills Golf Club in Manhattan, Kansas, which he helped design and opened in 2000.

Colbert was inducted into the Kansas State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991, the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame in 2019.

SANTANA HAS INJURY SETBACK

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Carlos Santana, the oldest active position player in the majors, suffered a recent setback in his rehab from a right groin strain that has sidelined him since April 5.

Santana, 40, felt a twinge in the area of the injury on Saturday while playing for Triple-A Reno, Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said Monday before the D-backs’ game at Texas. Santana returned to Arizona for further evaluation.

“Kind of a bummer,” Lovullo said. “I know he’s been working really, really hard to come back. He hit a home run a couple of days ago, so I think his swing was coming around.”

He left Arizona’s April 5 game at home against Atlanta in the second inning after singling. It was his second hit in 24 at-bats, leaving him with a .083 batting average with no homers or RBIs in eight games.

Santana signed with the Diamondbacks as a free agent in early February after splitting last season between Cleveland and the Chicago Cubs, hitting a combined .219 with 11 home runs and 54 RBI.

This IL stint is just the fifth in Santana’s 17-year career and likely will result in his longest absence since his rookie season with Cleveland in 2010, when he missed the final two months with a sprained left knee.