The baseball season in Greensboro isn’t over. The Grasshoppers will compete in the High-A East League championship series next week.
A preview of the Greensboro Grasshopper’s homestand beginning Tuesday:
Sale of the photos is a fundraiser for the Babe and Yogi Scholarship Fund at the N.C. State School of Veterinary Medicine.
Here’s the information on this week’s series between the Greensboro Grasshoppers and the Winston-Salem Dash, as well as the schedule for other teams in the area.
The Greensboro Grasshoppers will open their minor-league baseball season on Tuesday night, playing their first game in the Gate City since Aug. 29, 2019.
Fans of the Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball franchise can celebrate a world championship vicariously through the Los Angeles Dodgers' Austin Barnes.
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While the pro teams in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point saw their seasons canceled, the Coastal Plain League's HiToms solider on through season of pandemic.
The Greensboro Grasshoppers and Winston-Salem Dash won't be provided with any players by their Major League Baseball parent clubs this summer.
For those itching to toss a baseball, the Winston-Salem Dash would love to help out.
Baseball’s longest offseason might be a lot longer than we thought. And for some small towns across the region, minor-league baseball might soon disappear forever.
Following are the results from last week's NCHSAA regional action for baseball and softball involving Piedmont Triad area schools.
Kellen Parrish, a former conference coach of the year at Northern Guilford, returns to the Triad from Pinecrest as Glenn’s next boys basketball coach. The hire was announced by the school on Friday.
Correy McManus Jr. could see in senior John Shearin IV’s eyes a will to win during the anchor leg of the 4X400 relay at the 2A Midwest Regional on May 13. McManus, a junior sprinter, soon saw his High Point Andrews teammate down on the track surface, bruised, his legs and side hurting after …
The NCISAA released this week its all-state selections for spring sports. Track and field selections were based on who finished in first place at their respective state meets.
They were No. 8 seeds. They barely got into the playoffs after up-and-down regular seasons. They had to face the No. 1 overall seeds in Round 1 of the postseason. They had to win Game 7s in Boston just to keep their seasons alive. They are Eastern Conference champions. They are four wins from a championship. This is the story of the Miami Heat and Florida Panthers. And it could have an ending like none other.
Wednesday marked the deadline for players who were early entrants to the NBA draft to withdraw and return to college basketball. The list includes national champion Connecticut getting back guard Tristen Newton. UCLA returned Pac-12 freshman of the year Adem Bona. Michigan State retained guards Jaden Akins and A.J. Hoggard. Tennessee will have guard Josiah-Jordan James back for a fifth season. Numerous players still face decisions on their next move. That includes a pair of bigs who were named Associated Press men's college basketball player of the year in Purdue's Zach Edey and Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe.
The LSU Tigers enter the NCAA baseball tournament with the top two prospects in this summer's major league baseball draft spearheading their postseason push. Centerfielder Dylan Crews is hitting .420 and was named the SEC player of the year. He's the consensus top prospect in this July's amateur draft. Next is pitcher Paul Skenes. The righty throws 100 miles per hour, leads the nation with 167 strikeouts and was named SEC pitcher of the year.
Adem Bona, the Pac-12 Conference's freshman of the year, is withdrawing his name from the NBA draft and will return to UCLA for his sophomore season.
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The Memorial has another loaded field. That included the pro-am with a cast of athletes and celebrities. The tournament Jack Nicklaus built already was among the best on the PGA Tour. Now it's an elevated event with a $20 million purse. It's part of a crowded PGA Tour schedule that's going to get more compact next year. Tour officials are developing a schedule with $20 million events and majors all bunched together. That's to give space to the other tournaments. As for the Memorial, Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler resume their battle for No. 1 in the world.
They were No. 8 seeds. They barely got into the playoffs after up-and-down regular seasons. They had to face the No. 1 overall seeds in Round 1 of the postseason. They had to win Game 7s in Boston just to keep their seasons alive. They are Eastern Conference champions. They are four wins from a championship. This is the story of the Miami Heat and Florida Panthers. And it could have an ending like none other.
Peyton Stearns is playing in the French Open for the first time and now the 21-year-old American is into the third round after knocking off 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko. A 2022 NCAA champion for the University of Texas, Stearns used her big forehand to put together the 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory on Wednesday. That leaves just one past Roland Garros champion in the women's field.
Eri Yoshida is a 31-year-old Japanese knuckleball pitcher with a sidearm delivery that she hopes might carry her to the big leagues in the United States or Japan. She says "I know it's a really difficult challenge, but I have a dream in my heart that I really want to stand on a mound in the majors with a knuckleball." Even Yoshida acknowledges that it's a far-fetched fantasy. But it's also very real. She travels this week to play for two months in the Empire League, an independent baseball league in upstate New York. Yoshida has pitched in games in Japan, the United States, and Canada — against men and women.