Former major leaguer Mark DeRosa will manage the United States for the second straight World Baseball Classic, USA Baseball said Thursday.

DeRosa led the U.S. to the final of the 2023 tournament, in which it lost to Japan 3-2 as Shohei Ohtani struck out then-Angels teammate Mike Trout to end the game.

Michael Hill, MLB’s senior VP of on-field operations and workforce development, will be the team’s new GM.

DeRosa, 50, is a broadcaster for the MLB Network. He had a .268 average with 100 homers and 494 RBIs in 16 seasons.

College basketball: Alan Huss will rejoin Greg McDermott’s staff at Creighton, where he will be named head-coach-in-waiting, ESPN reported. There’s no specific timeline for McDermott to retire. Huss, 46, was McDermott’s assistant for six seasons before taking the head coaching job at High Point in 2023.

NFL: The Colts released kicker Matt Gay, two years after they gave him a then-record four-year, $22.5 million free agent contract. Gay, 31, converted just 82.1% of his field goal attempts (64 of 78) and made just 50% of attempts from 50 yards or longer (11 of 22) for the Colts.

Soccer: Alejandro Dominguez, the president of South American soccer’s ruling body CONMEBOL, made an official proposal to expand the men’s 2030 World Cup from 32 teams to 64. The 2030 World Cup is already set to be the most sprawling edition with six host nations spread across three continents. Uruguay was the original World Cup host in 1930 and is scheduled to stage one game. Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are also co-hosts.