A pair of NL Central rivals start a weekend series on Friday, Aug. 9 as the Milwaukee Brewers welcome the Cincinnati Reds to American Family Field in Milwaukee.
The game is scheduled to start at 8:10 p.m. EST and will be broadcast exclusively on Apple TV+. Fans looking to watch this MLB game can do so with an Apple TV+ subscription. Apple TV+ offers a 7-day free trial for new users and is $9.99 a month afterward.
The game is not available on your local cable provider or MLB.TV. Instead, the Reds vs. Brewers game will be streamed exclusively on Apple TV+ as part of a Friday Night Baseball doubleheader.
Unlike last season, a subscription is required to watch games on Apple TV+ this year.
How to watch the Reds vs. Brewers game: Here’s the direct link you need to watch the game
The only way to watch Friday’s game will be via the Apple TV+app, which you can watch on phones, streaming devices, smart TVs and computers.
Apple TV+ joined the sports streaming world last season with a major broadcasting deal with Major League Baseball that includes a weekly Friday Night Baseball broadcast exclusively on the app’s platform. The deal was promoted as a step forward for MLB to try and reach a younger audience.
Fans can find more info on how to watch MLB games on Apple TV+ here.
Who: Cincinnati Reds vs. Milwaukee Brewers
When: Friday, Aug. 9 at 8:10 p.m. EST
Where: American Family Field in Milwaukee
Stream: Stream with an Apple TV+ subscription. Apple TV+ offers a 7-day free trial for new users and is $9.99 a month afterward.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Bristol Motor Speedway is gearing up for Major League Baseball next season.
A person with knowledge of the schedule told The Associated Press that the longtime NASCAR track will host a game between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds next season on Aug. 2, 2025. The person spoke Wednesday to the AP on condition of anonymity because the game has not been publicly announced.
Officials from the track and its owner, Speedway Motorsports, have a press conference planned Friday to discuss Bristol’s 2025 schedule.
The track has been of one NASCAR’s most exciting venues since opening more than 60 years ago with a history of hosting other sports besides racing.
Bristol hosted an NFL exhibition game in 1961 between Philadelphia and Washington. The track held two college football games in consecutive weeks in 2016 in Tennessee-Virginia Tech and East Tennessee-Western Carolina.
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AP Baseball Writer Ron Blum contributed to this report.
Former college baseball player sues, says NCAA, conferences fixed wages with scholarship limits
By The Associated Press
A former college baseball player is suing the NCAA and power conferences, accusing the leagues of wage fixing through scholarship limits.
The federal antitrust cases was filed in Colorado this week by former TCU baseball player Riley Cornelio and seeks class-action status for college baseball and hockey players.
“Defendant and its members operate as a cartel, and the capping of scholarship money at artificially low levels in these sports results in wage fixing amongst horizontal competitors in a market for services,” the complaint says. “The anticompetitive effects are as clear as with any other wage fix, and it is an unlawful restraint under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.”
The NCAA, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference have an agreement in place to settle three antitrust lawsuits that challenged compensation rules for $2.78 billion in damages to former and current college athletes.
The settlement, which still needs to be approved by a judge, also includes a plan to allow schools to implement a revenue-sharing system with athletes and increase the number of scholarship schools would be permitted — though not required — to hand out in most Division I sports. Scholarship limits would be replaced by roster caps.
“Even if the rule is finally repealed, there will still be a need to make whole the athletes who suffered,” the lawsuit says.
The scholarship limit for baseball has been 11.7 per team. Most teams break those scholarships into pieces, leaving players with partial scholarships. Under the new proposed system, baseball rosters will be capped at 34 players and schools can choose to fund them all with full scholarships.
The NCAA and conferences are hoping the settlement helps put an end to the constant legal battles that have chipped away at the foundation of college sports over the last decade.
But the enterprise is still ripe for challenges.
The Cornelio lawsuit was filed by the same attorneys who are leading an antitrust case against the NCAA that has similarities to those that are part of the settlement. In that case, former Colorado football player Alex Fontenot filed his lawsuit last November, claiming NCAA rules have illegally prevented college athletes from earning their fair share of the millions of dollars in revenue schools bring in.
The plaintffs’ attorneys in the House case requested that Fontenot be joined with another lawsuit that is part of the settlement, but a Colorado judge denied the request.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
