College football will have 43 bowl games by the time the 2020 postseason rolls around with one of the three new games being played in New England … in the dead of winter.

Baseball’s 2026 All-Star Game will be played in Philadelphia to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement at Independence Hall with a cast of All-Stars past and present on stage behind him.

Donnie Gardiner doesn’t like to waste time. Not with the Red Sox home opener fast approaching. After offering a quick greeting at Gate D — “C’mon in. Welcome to Fenway Park,” he says — he rushes off to the visitors’ clubhouse. Gardiner walks and talks.

Atleast the Cubs’ construction team is getting the job done. As the baseball crew continues its tailspin in Milwaukee, the Wrigley Field bosses Saturday unveiled the last major stage of the ballpark’s five-year renovation.

The 25th anniversary of the opening in April 1994 of what then was called Jacobs Field has extra meaning for Thomas V. Chema, Joe Spear and Jim Folk.