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El veredicto contra Eric Kay es el inicio de un largo y triste camino para Angels, MLB y la familia Skaggs

En la primera frase de su declaración de clausura el jueves, el gobierno federal dejó claro de qué creía que se trataba este juicio. "Este caso", dijo al jurado la fiscal adjunta Lindsey Beran, "es sobre una persona".

Los Angeles Times

Labor Wars: A New Hope (Well, Maybe)

With 10 days to go until the MLB lockout impacts the scheduled start of the regular season, the two sides have made little progress on a new collective bargaining agreement. Yesterday in Manhattan, where temperatures were in the 50s and the atmosphere ideal for some spring baseball, the ...

Sports Illustrated

Eric Kay verdict is the start of a long, sad road for Angels, MLB and Skaggs family

FORT WORTH, Texas — In the very first sentence of its closing statement Thursday, the federal government made clear what it believed this trial was all about.

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Former Angels employee Eric Kay found guilty of drug charges in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

FORT WORTH, Texas — An opiate addict and dealer operating in the bowels of Angel Stadium, where he worked handling press inquiries, provided to a starting pitcher a fentanyl-laced pill that led him to aspirate vomit and die during a road trip to Texas in 2019, a jury in Fort…

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Skaggs Family, Angels Release Statements After Eric Kay Is Found Guilty

Said the Skaggs family: “Tyler was the light of our family. He is gone, and nothing can ever bring him back. We are relieved that justice was served.”

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Eric Kay found guilty of supplying drugs that led to death of Angels’ Tyler Skaggs

FORT WORTH, Texas — A jury on Thursday found Eric Kay guilty of giving Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his death in July 2019.

Los Angeles Times

Jury convicts former Angels employee in Tyler Skaggs’ overdose death

Eric Kay was convicted of one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. He faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on June 28.

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Angels Staffer Found Guilty for Distributing Drugs That Caused Tyler Skaggs’s Death

Eric Kay, the former Angels communications director, was found guilty on charges that he supplied Skaggs with fentanyl that caused his death in 2019.

Sports Illustrated

MLB Drug Testing Finds No Opioid Violations in Two Seasons

Five players testified that Eric Kay, who faces charges relating to Tyler Skaggs’s death, provided them with oxycodone.

Sports Illustrated

Former Angels employee Eric Kay won't testify in his defense, his attorneys indicate

FORT WORTH, Texas — Eric Kay will not testify in his defense, his attorneys indicated in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Spring training fueled boom in Arizona's Cactus League. Owners' lockout puts it in jeopardy.

The COVID-19 pandemic cut short spring training in 2020. It compelled Cactus League teams to keep about three out of four seats empty in 2021. A pandemic is no one's fault.

Los Angeles Times

Matt Harvey Discusses Drug Use in Trial of Former Angels Staffer

In his testimony, the pitcher talked about his discussions with Tyler Skaggs about drugs and his, as well as Skaggs’s, substance use.

Sports Illustrated

Four former Angels say they received oxycodone pills from Eric Kay

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four former Angels players testified Tuesday to using oxycodone pills they received from Eric Kay, the team’s former communications director charged with giving Tyler Skaggs the drugs that resulted in his death in a suburban Dallas hotel room in July 2019.

Los Angeles Times

Angels staffer told colleague he watched pitcher do 3 opiate lines off menu before he died

In mid July 2019, a couple of weeks after Tyler Skaggs died inside a hotel room in Southlake, Eric Kay's behavior had become erratic, a witness testified Monday.

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Another Angels employee connected Eric Kay with drug dealer in Tyler Skaggs case, prosecutors argue

FORT WORTH, Texas — Prosecutors on Friday again argued that another Angels employee connected Eric Kay with the person who supplied the drugs that led to Tyler Skaggs’ death in July 2019.

Tribune News Service

Tyler Skaggs' death was early sign of fentanyl problem in Tarrant County, officials testify

FORT WORTH, Texas — The death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019 was one of the first in Tarrant County involving fentanyl, and that number continues to increase, toxicologists testified Friday in federal court.

Los Angeles Times

Tyler Skaggs’ mother testifies that Angels pitcher had opioid issue in 2013

FORT WORTH, Texas — On the first full day of testimony in the trial of Eric Kay, a former Angels employee charged with giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his death, Debbie Hetman testified that her son admitted he had an issue with Percocet nearly six years…

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Los Angeles Angels security guard describes finding player's body in Texas hotel room

Tyler Skaggs' legs and feet in cowboy boots hung off of his Southlake hotel room bed. Blood pooled inside his body at the right side of his face. He had no pulse.

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Jury selected in trial of former Angels employee charged in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

Jurors in the trial of a Major League Baseball executive accused of providing a controlled substance that caused the death of a Los Angeles Angels player in Southlake will likely hear from a witness to whom prosecutors offered immunity in order to testify.

Sports Illustrated

How a Labor Lawyer Sees MLB’s Latest Lockout Tactic

When Rob Manfred wrote his letter to “our Fans” on Dec. 2, he explained Major League Baseball’s decision to lock out the players as a tactic to “jumpstart the negotiations and get us to an agreement that will allow the season to start on time.” Then, the league went 43…

Los Angeles Times

Seven former Angels could be summoned as witnesses in Eric Kay trial

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors could call seven former Angels players as witnesses during the trial of the ex-communications director Eric Kay in the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Defamation Lawsuit Against Angels, MLB Reinstated by Appeals Court

Former Angels clubhouse manager Bubba Harkins was fired in 2020 for providing pitch-doctoring substances to pitchers.

Sports Illustrated

2022 Fantasy Baseball: Los Angeles Angels Team Outlook

Player profiles, stats and analysis for Los Angeles Angels hitters and pitchers.

Bangkok Post

Angels hope to storm Buriram citadel

Although True Bangkok United have suffered a slump in form since Thai League 1 began its second half of the season earlier this month, coach Totchtawan Sripan is looking forward to beating leaders Buriram United on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Angels hit the runway for Virgil Abloh’s final Louis Vuitton menswear collection

The late, great designer’s final visions came to life in Paris

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