BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : Schedule Deadline Extended to Aug. 15

Still unable to reach an agreement on interleague play, the players’ association gave the owners an extension on the deadline for presenting a draft of the 1997 schedule.

Owners are to give the union a draft schedule by Aug. 15.

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Cincinnati’s Chris Sabo decided not to appeal his seven game suspension handed down by the National League Wednesday, so he began serving it Thursday with the Reds’ game in Montreal.