[naviga:h3]Remy says translators not needed on mound[/naviga:h3]

NEW YORK — Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy says pitchers such as Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka shouldn’t be allowed translators on the mound and should instead “learn baseball language.”

Remy’s comments during the NESN telecast of the Boston-New York game quickly drew harsh criticism on social media, with some saying there isn’t one universal language for baseball.

The Red Sox analyst made his remarks on air after Tanaka was visited by Japanese translator Shingo Horie and pitching coach Larry Rothschild in the fourth inning at Yankee Stadium.

“I don’t think that should be legal,” Remy said, telling play-by-play man Dave O’Brien, “I really don’t.”

[naviga:h3]3 Spartan gridders kicked off team[/naviga:h3]

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Three Michigan State football players were charged with criminal sexual conduct after a woman said she was raped and forced to perform oral sex in the bathroom of an on-campus apartment during a party in January.

Josh King, 19, was charged with first- and third-degree criminal sexual conduct and with distributing an image of an unclothed person. Demetric Vance, 20, and Donnie Corley Jr., 19, face third-degree criminal sexual conduct charges.

Coach Mark Dantonio dismissed all three from the football program moments after the charges were made public.

[naviga:h3]Jets cut Harris during roster purge[/naviga:h3]

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — David Harris was just the latest veteran player shown the door in what has been an offseason purge by the New York Jets.

Eric Decker will be the next to leave. And, there could be more to come.

On a dreary day that will be remembered by Jets fans for fond farewells to two of their favorites, Harris was released and Decker was told he will be traded or cut.

[naviga:h3]Mountain climber rescued in Alaska[/naviga:h3]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man trying to climb North America’s highest mountain fell 40 feet into a glacier crevasse and got wedged into the ice, forcing rescuers in Alaska to drop into the narrow hole one by one to chip him out.

Martin Takac, 38, of Trmava, Slovakia, was in critical condition with suspected trauma injuries and hypothermia after it took crews 14 hours to lift him out of the deep crack on 20,310-foot Denali.