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DETROIT -- Former major league catcher Gerald Laird is now a minor league manager.The Detroit Tigers announced Tuesday that Laird will manage at Class A Connecticut this coming season. The 37-year-old Laird last played in the major leagues in 2015, when he appeared in one game for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He played for the Tigers from 2009-10 and again in 2012.Mike Rojas will manage at Triple-A Toledo for the Tigers, and Lance Parrish will again manage Double-A Erie. . Roman Josi had a goal and an assist to lead the Predators to a 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Monday night. .ca NFL Power Rankings, overtaking the Denver Broncos and remaining ahead of NFC competition San Francisco, Carolina and New Orleans. . -- PGA TOUR Canada member Steve Saunders took a three-stroke lead Saturday in the Web. . Peter Gammons, an analyst for Major League Baseballs network and website, drew the ire of hockey fans on Sunday when he criticized the two NHL teams on Twitter for their physical game the night before. . The judges scored it 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 for Jones (19-1). It was the champions closest call. Despite the loss, it was a remarkable show by the confident Swedish challenger, who had the best of the early rounds and then hung on in the fourth and fifth. NORMAN, Okla. -- After his team won a second consecutive Big 12 championship Saturday, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield said he will return for his senior seasonIm coming back, Mayfield said after the No. 9 Sooners defeated No. 10 ?Oklahoma State 38-20. Ill be here for another year for the opportunity of a three-peat and the ultimate goal of winning a national title.Mayfield, who finished fourth in the Heisman voting last year, has re-emerged as a Heisman contender this season. In Bedlam, he completed 13 of 19 passes for 288 yards and three touchdowns to remain on pace to break the FBS season record for passing efficiency.Over the summer, the Big 12 approved a rule proposal that gave Mayfield eligibility at Oklahoma for the 2017 season. Before the rule change, Big 12 walk-ons that transferred wwithin the conference lost a season of eligibility.ddddddddddddMayfield was a walk-on at Texas Tech before transferring to Oklahoma in 2014.Ive dreamed of playing here for too long, I fought for that extra year of eligibility for too long, Mayfield said. I had everybody worked on that and its not a feeling that I owe anybody or anything, but its just that we all did that for a certain reason. Ive always dreamed of playing here and another season under Coach (Bob) Stoops will be another dream come true and a great opportunity for us to win another national title.ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. had Mayfield rated as the No. 7 quarterback eligible for the 2016 NFL draft. ' ' '
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