A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping racially integrate baseball. Much of the attention has been on Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But a year earlier, Hall of Fame catcher Ro…
Wake Forest is the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA Tournament and the Southeastern Conference had a record-tying 10 teams picked to play in regionals. The 64-team tournament opens Friday in 16 regionals. Winners advance to eight best-of-three super regionals. Those winners move on to the Col…
CHAPEL HILL — There's still plenty left for top-ranked Wake Forest to achieve, but the ACC baseball championship won't be one of its accomplishments this season.
BOSTON — The Patriots were docked two days of Organized Team Activities because of scheduling errors caused by Joe Judge-led special teams meetings earlier this offseason, league sources told the Boston Herald. According to documents obtained by Boston Sports Journal, Judge held 20-minute “s…
DURHAM — Rhett Lowder shook off a wobbly start to maintain his unbeaten streak, and Brock Wilken edged closer to another Wake Forest record on Thursday as the top-seeded and top-ranked Demon Deacons beat Pitt 7-1 in the ACC baseball tournament to advance to the semifinals.
DURHAM — Pittsburgh slugged a season-high five home runs to approach an ACC record on Wednesday and took a 9-5 victory over Notre Dame on the second day of pool play in the conference tournament
Jacob Wilson disagrees with the modern baseball notion that striking out does not necessarily represent failure. The Grand Canyon shortstop is a projected top-10 overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft partly because of his uncanny ability to put the ball in play. Wilson has been the…
Jacob Wilson disagrees with the modern baseball notion that striking out does not necessarily represent failure. The Grand Canyon shortstop is a projected top-10 overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft partly because of his uncanny ability to put the ball in play. Wilson has been the toughest player in the country to strike out for two years.
DURHAM — Boston College and North Carolina opened the 2023 ACC baseball tournament with victories in their pool play on Tuesday.
San Francisco has named the nation's first drag laureate to represent the city’s famous LGBTQ+ community at a time when rights are under attack.
Congratulations are in order for the good people of Tempe, Arizona. They might've cost themselves an NHL team, but that was a small price to pay to hang on to their wallets. In a rare setback for billionaire owners and their endless scams to get the public to build them new places to play, the Phoenix suburb decisively turned back a $2.3 billion proposal that included a new arena for the Arizona Coyotes. This one was a stunner for the NHL and the Coyotes, who are likely headed to a new city in their endless quest for a new arena.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have removed a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from the team’s annual Pride Night after opposition from conservative Catholic groups.
In 1973, Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, rallies from last with a powerful move on the clubhouse turn to win the Preakness Stakes by 2½ lengths over Sham. See more sports moments from this date:
The Dodgers and Major League Baseball are under fire their decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the team Pride Night. (5-18-23)
The Dodgers and Major League Baseball are under fire their decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the team Pride Night. (5-18-23)
A major professional team playing in a minor league venue would've been unheard of just a few years ago. That is what the Oakland Athletics likely will do if they move to Las Vegas. There is recent precedent. The Chargers played in an MLS stadium after moving from San Diego to Los Angeles. T…
WINSTON-SALEM — The postseason is right around the corner, and that means a lot to the top-ranked Wake Forest baseball team.
Anti-trans legislation is roiling the nation. Bills prohibiting drag performances are cropping up in statehouses. Violence and vitriol are turning children’s events like “Drag Story Hour” into headline-news protests. So San Francisco is fighting back Thursday by naming the nation’s first dra…
Last week, Shohei Ohtani broke Babe Ruth's career pitching strikeout record.
The player, a 7-year-old catcher, appears startled as he spins around in confusion inside the dust devil.
A major professional team playing in a minor league venue would've been unheard of just a few years ago. That is what the Oakland Athletics likely will do if they move to Las Vegas. There is recent precedent. The Chargers played in an MLS stadium after moving from San Diego to Los Angeles. The Arizona Coyotes call a college arena home while awaiting what they hope is a new building of their own. A's president Dave Kaval has said he would like to break ground next year and move into the Las Vegas stadium in time for the 2017 season.
WINSTON-SALEM — The postseason is right around the corner, and that means a lot to the top-ranked Wake Forest baseball team.
Anti-trans legislation is roiling the nation. Bills prohibiting drag performances are cropping up in statehouses. Violence and vitriol are turning children’s events like “Drag Story Hour” into headline-news protests. So San Francisco is fighting back Thursday by naming the nation’s first dra…
Last week, Shohei Ohtani broke Babe Ruth's career pitching strikeout record.
The player, a 7-year-old catcher, appears startled as he spins around in confusion inside the dust devil.
A little league baseball catcher gets caught in a dust devil mid-game before a quick-thinking umpire pulls him out.
ARLINGTON, Texas — When the Rangers drafted Kumar Rocker with the third pick overall last year, there were long-term concerns about his shoulder. Well, the shoulder has held up just fine. The elbow: Not so much. Just six starts into his professional career, Rocker suffered a torn elbow ligament, general manager Chris Young said Tuesday. Rocker will undergo Tommy John surgery later this week to ...
After decades of supporting poor, young baseball players as they began their professional careers, minor league host families have officially been phased out. As part of their first collective bargaining agreement with Major League Baseball this spring, minor league players negotiated an end to the practice. Players are now guaranteed furnished housing, something they are celebrating as a more professional arrangement.
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A little league baseball catcher gets caught in a dust devil mid-game before a quick-thinking umpire pulls him out.
ARLINGTON, Texas — When the Rangers drafted Kumar Rocker with the third pick overall last year, there were long-term concerns about his shoulder. Well, the shoulder has held up just fine. The elbow: Not so much. Just six starts into his professional career, Rocker suffered a torn elbow ligam…
After decades of supporting poor, young baseball players as they began their professional careers, minor league host families have officially been phased out. As part of their first collective bargaining agreement with Major League Baseball this spring, minor league players negotiated an end…
The pitch clock has sped up baseball as hoped, and it might be leading to more exciting endings, too. A quarter of the way through Major League Baseball’s first season with the pitch timer, relief pitchers seem to be bearing the most stress from it, with save conversions dropping to 61.4% fr…
It's been, hard to believe, more than five years already since we lost Steve Palermo after a long battle with cancer.
Organizers of Pride festivals and parades in conservative states are under increasing pressure to censor their events or ban drag performances.
The pitch clock has sped up baseball as hoped, and it might be leading to more exciting endings, too. A quarter of the way through Major League Baseball’s first season with the pitch timer, relief pitchers seem to be bearing the most stress from it, with save conversions dropping to 61.4% from 67.8% at a similar point last season. The save percentage is near the bottom range of the past decade, which averaged 65.1%, MLB said Monday.
It's been, hard to believe, more than five years already since we lost Steve Palermo after a long battle with cancer.
Organizers of Pride festivals and parades in conservative states are under increasing pressure to censor their events or ban drag performances.
Don Denkinger, a major league umpire for three decades whose blown call in the 1985 World Series overshadowed a three-decade career of excellence, died Friday. He was 86. Denkinger died at Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa, Denise Hanson, one of his three daughters, said. Denkinger joined the American League staff in 1969. He worked four World Series over three decades in the big leagues but was remembered most for a mistaken call that helped Kansas City win Game 6 of the 1985 World Series against St. Louis.
WASHINGTON — Max Scherzer had what the Mets described as a “strenuous” workday Friday, which was a positive indicator for the right-hander and his management of neck spasms. The right-hander threw a 30-pitch bullpen at Nationals Park and is on track to start Sunday against the Washington Nationals. But while the neck spasms might be under control right now, the issue doesn’t appear to be a ...
The St. Louis Cardinals are last in the NL Central with a 13-25 record in a surprisingly lackluster start for one of baseball's winningest franchises. It's the worst 38-game start for the team since it was 13-25 in 1925, according to Sportradar. The Cardinals haven't finished with a losing record since they were 78-84 in 2007, and the franchise has just two losing seasons in the past 25 years. Alongside the losing, St. Louis also has experienced a bit of dysfunctiona departure for a franchise that typically sails along with very little of the choppy water it has publicly navigated already.
“It Ain’t Over” aims to elevate Yogi Berra's playing career alongside his persona as a cultural icon. The 98-minute Sony Pictures Classics documentary premiered last June at the Tribeca Festival and in theaters in the New York tri-state area and Los Angeles on Friday, which would have been his 98th birthday.
Top-ranked Wake Forest celebrated its new status in the college baseball polls with a 14-4 victory over UNC Greensboro on Tuesday night, making the 2023 team the fastest in school history to reach 40 wins as well as the first in the nation this year to reach that mark.
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