NICK MARTINEZ

Right-hander Nick Martinez and the San Diego Padres finalized a contract Wednesday that could be worth at least $25.5 million over four seasons and as much as $31.5 million. Martinez gets a $2 million signing bonus, half payable May 1 and half June 1, and a $4 million salary this year. Martinez and the Padres were closing in on an agreement Dec. 1, but it wasn’t finished before the Major League Baseball lockout began that night.

The two-day, free event will be held at Heritage Park Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19.

Since it began in 1960, the Texas Jazz Festival has provided the Coastal Bend with the sweet sound of jazz music for no cost.

Baseball's traditional powers — Japan, the United States and the Dominican Republic — took the medals as the sport made a dramatic return to the Olympic program.

A Japanese team of All-Stars fulfilled a determined national mission to win the Olympic baseball gold medal for the first time, beating the United States 2-0 behind Munetaka Murakami’s third-inning home run.

Japan secured Olympic baseball gold 11 days after winning the gold medal in softball on the same field in Yokohama.

Day 15 of the Tokyo Games will feature the American women going for gold in basketball, volleyball and water polo.

Home runs from top MLB prospects Tristan Casas and Nick Allen lifted the United States baseball team to a 4-1 win over South Korea in a pool play matchup.