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BASEBALL
BALTIMORE (AP) Baseball in Baltimore was closed to the public for one day.
The only shutout in the final score Wednesday at Camden Yards came in the attendance total: Orioles 8, White Sox 2, Fans 0.
MLB decided to play the game behind closed doors because of looting and rioting around Camden Yards that broke out amid tensions between residents and police. The turmoil prompting a citywide curfew came hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who sustained a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody.
The sounds of the game had been silenced.
No cheering for the Orioles, no jeering the umpires.
It stood alone in baseball history - and at 2 hours, 3 minutes, baseball might have an extreme solution for its desires to speed up the game.
The only place full besides the dugouts was the press box, where all 92 seats were taken.
CHICAGO (AP) - Major League Baseball has ruled that the Chicago Cubs did not violate tampering rules when they pursued manager Joe Maddon last fall.
The commissioner's office released a statement Wednesday clearing the Cubs of wrongdoing about six months after Tampa Bay accused Chicago of tampering with their manager before Maddon opted out of his contract with the Rays.
''The investigation produced no finding of a violation of Major League Rule 3(k) on tampering,'' MLB said in the statement.
The Rays, playing in New York on Wednesday, had not comment. The Cubs were happy it's finally resolved.
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NBA
CLEVELAND (AP) - Kevin Love had surgery on his badly damaged left shoulder that could require six months of recovery, officially ending any remote chance he had of returning during Cleveland's playoff run.
Love, whose arm was yanked from the socket on Sunday by Boston's Kelly Olynyk during Game 4, had the operation at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York on Wednesday. The team released a brief statement saying the forward had the procedure and that his projected recovery time is 4-to-6 months.
On Tuesday, Cavs general manager David Griffin said it was ''highly unlikely'' Love would return during the postseason. That distant possibility was erased by the surgery to a shoulder Griffin said sustained ''extensive'' damage. Love had ligaments in his shoulder torn on a play that has shaken Cleveland's championship hopes.
HOUSTON (AP) - The Houston Rockets have fired their social media manager after he posted a tweet with an emoji of a gun pointed at a horse's head as they were beating the Dallas Mavericks.
The Rockets confirmed the dismissal of Chad Shanks on Wednesday. Shanks wrote on his personal Twitter page that he would no longer run the Rockets' Twitter account but was grateful to the organization.
The tweet, posted just before the Rockets finished a 103-94 victory to win the first-round playoff series, read: ''Shhhhh. Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon.'' It was quickly criticized on social media and soon deleted.
The Mavericks responded with a tweet from their official account to the Rockets, reading: ''Not very classy but we still wish you guys the best of luck in the next round.''
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GOLF
ATLANTA (AP) - Calvin Peete, the most successful black player on the PGA Tour before the arrival of Tiger Woods, died Wednesday morning. He was 71.
The PGA Tour did not have a cause of death. Murray Brothers Funeral Home confirmed it was handling the arrangement but did not release additional information.
Peete won 12 times on the PGA Tour and was the most accurate driver of his generation. He led the tour in driving accuracy every year from 1981 to 1990. Peete's biggest year was in 1982 when he won four times. He won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average in 1984 by edging Jack Nicklaus.
He won The Players Championship in 1985 and played on two Ryder Cup teams.
He is survived by his wife, Pepper, and seven children.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Alabama cornerback Cyrus Jones has been arrested on domestic violence charges.
A Tuscaloosa Police statement says officers arrested the 21-year-old Jones at about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday after responding to a domestic call. Police said Wednesday that Jones had taken and damaged a 22-year-old woman's cellphone earlier in the day and threatened to assault her in front of a witness.
Jones was charged with two domestic violence misdemeanors: third-degree harassment and third-degree criminal mischief.
It's the fourth arrest of a Crimson Tide player since March. Defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor was dismissed from the school after his second domestic violence arrest, the first leading to his dismissal from the University of Georgia.
Jones is Alabama's most experienced cornerback. The converted receiver has started 19 games in two seasons.
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SOCCER
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Soccer suspended Chicago Fire midfielder Matt Watson, Sporting Kansas City midfielder Servando Carrasco and Real Salt Lake midfielder John Stertzer on Wednesday for one game each and fined them undisclosed amounts.
Watson was penalized for a serious foul play in the 27th minute of Chicago's game against New York City on Friday night, Carrasco for violent conduct in the 52nd minute against Houston on Saturday night, and Stertzer for serious foul play in the 10th minute against New England on Saturday night.
Toronto FC defender Damien Perquis also was fined an undisclosed amount for simulation in the 83rd minute of a game against Orlando City on Sunday night.
SAO PAULO (AP) - A Palmeiras fan has died from head injuries after being attacked by Santos supporters following the teams' match in the final of the Sao Paulo state championship at the weekend.
Authorities said Wednesday the 25-year-old fan was not able to recover from the injuries sustained after Palmeiras defeated Santos 1-0 in the first leg of the final on Sunday.
Claudio Morais, a member of one of Palmeiras' biggest fan groups, had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit.
He was with a group of friends and his girlfriend when he was attacked after the match at Palmeiras' Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo. The group was far from the stadium when the attack happened.
Cases of fan violence are common in Brazil and usually are linked to fan groups.
