The federal judge in the perjury trial against Roger Clemens has excused a third juror. That leaves just one alternate as the trial enters its seventh week. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton told lawyers Tuesday that the juror won't be able to return following the death of her mother last week. Two jurors previously were dismissed for sleeping.

Curt Schilling's struggling video game company, which received a $75 million loan guarantee to move to Rhode Island in 2010, has laid off its entire staff. An email sent by the 38 Studios company to workers says they were notified of the "non-voluntary and non-disciplinary" layoffs on Thursday. 38 Studios moved from Massachusetts after Rhode Island agreed to back the loan. Officials said the deal would bring hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars of tax revenue. "The company is experiencing an economic downturn," the email read. "To avoid further losses ... the company has decided that a companywide layoff is absolutely necessary." The company had 300 employees in Providence. It also has an office in Maryland. It released its much-anticipated first game, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning," to strong reviews in February.

With rumors indicating that the Yankees might be put up for sale, the team itself has denied all reports. Baseball itself is taking the reports seriously, releasing their own statement on the rumors: "Major League Baseball has received no indications from any representatives of the New York Yankees or anyone else that the Club is for sale."

The Yankees are strongly denying a New York Daily News report that the team may soon be put up for sale by the Steinbrenner family. "The Yankees have never engaged in any sales talks with any banks," team president Randy Levine told Darren Rovell of CNBC. The team doesn't have to engage in talks with banks as others do because it has no debt. "I just read the Daily News story. It is complete fiction," Hal Steinbrenner said. "Me and my family have no intention to sell the Yankees and expect it to be in the family for years to come."

Rumors are swirling around baseball that the Yankees could soon be put up for sale by the Steinbrenner family. The family has owned the Major League franchise since Cleveland shipbuilder George Steinbrenner purchased the club for $8.8 million in 1973. Multiple baseball and finance sources told the New York Daily News that the team could be put on the block in the wake of the record sale price of $2.175 billion the Dodgers went for in April. "There has been chatter all around the banking and financial industries in the city for a couple of weeks now," one high-level baseball source told The Daily News.

Aroldis Chapman is being sued for $18 million by a Cuban-American man imprisoned on the communist island. The lawsuit was filed recently in Miami federal court against the left-handed pitcher for the Reds, who was arrested for speeding earlier this week. It claims that Chapman falsely accused Danilo Curbelo Garcia of involvement in human trafficking, leading to his 2008 arrest and conviction in Cuba. Curbelo Garcia is serving a 10-year sentence.

Aroldis Chapman was arrested for speeding and driving with a suspended license early Monday. Cincinnati general manager Walt Jocketty and manager Dusty Baker met with the left-hander following their win over Atlanta on Monday night to get details of the arrest. The 24-year-old was stopped after radar clocked him going 93 mph on northbound Interstate 71 shortly before 1 a.m. "I don't know what happened," Baker said. "He got a speeding ticket. It can happen to anybody. His people are taking care of it, and we're helping."

A driver was beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after a weekend game and four people were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to police. The driver, a man in his 20s, was in stable condition with scrapes and cuts to his face and his injuries are not life-threatening. The man was involved in a minor collision with another driver as he was leaving the stadium parking lot, and three men from another car also got involved.

Curt Schilling's video game company has made a $1.1 million payment to the state of Rhode Island and now should seek out private financing to stay afloat. "There's no more easy money," Gov. Lincoln Chafee said. The company, 38 Studios, missed a scheduled payment to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. on May 1 and has told the state it could not meet its payroll this week. 38 Studios hand-delivered a check to the economic agency on Thursday only to have the chief financial officer acknowledge soon after there wasn't enough money in the account to cover it. The $1.1 million payment was made on Friday and the check cleared.

Curt Schilling has asked Rhode Island for additional help to save his video game company. His request has prompted state leaders to consider whether the firm is viable enough to justify further investment. Schilling, an ESPN baseball analyst, briefed Gov. Lincoln Chafee and the state's Economic Development Corp. board in a closed-door session. Following the meeting, Chafee would not say what Schilling is seeking from the state.