The Chicago Bulls and WNBA player Tamika Catchings have been honored at the first Sports Humanitarian of the Year Awards.
The recent spate of high-profile domestic violence cases involving Ray Rice and other NFL players prompted Major League Baseball and the players' union to open talks about the way that sport should deal with such episodes.
MLB commissioner Bud Selig says the league and its players' union have previously discussed the idea of a blanket policy regarding domestic violence during collective bargaining, yet so far baseball has opted to handle any issue on a case-by-case basis.
Bud Selig will likely leave his tenure as baseball commissioner early next year with one unsettled situation that has him "frustrated."
Rob Manfred was elected baseball's 10th commissioner Thursday, winning a three-man competition to succeed Bud Selig.
Bud Selig's successor as commissioner of baseball is expected to be decided next week, sources confirmed, when MLB owners assemble in Baltimore to vote on three finalists for the job.