Could a future big league ballplayer be staying with your family this summer? The Purcellville Cannons baseball team is looking for host families to provide a ‘home away from home’ for college-age players who will be playing in a 10-week summer league season. 05/3/2024 - 1:13 am | View Link
Community Thrift Shop donates to Little League, Special Olympian, more Dunnellon Community Thrift Shop volunteers John Carpenter, Evelyn Krautheim, and Joann McCullough met with League Information Officer Todd Patterson and other officers at the Dunnellon Little League f ... 04/30/2024 - 11:34 pm | View Link
LATT: Is Finlete offering a way to support ballplayers? Or another form of gambling? But some are asking, is this just another form of gambling? Kelvin Washington has more. 04/30/2024 - 5:48 am | View Link
How Are Three Top Young Major League Ballplayers Doing In 2024? The Jackson Three of best young prospects in Major League Baseball — Jackson Holliday, Jackson Chourio and Jackson Merrill — have had varying results thus far in 2024. 04/29/2024 - 3:25 pm | View Link
Champions and the countdown to doom | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History A group of ballplayers including Mike “Turkey” Donlin were strolling through downtown Santa Cruz in May 1899 when the Odd Fellows Building caught fire. 04/28/2024 - 5:05 pm | View Link
Baseball teams and training — Bay Area Ballplayers Advanced training for baseball players of all ages. 05/3/2024 - 12:50 pm | View Website
Bay Area Ballplayers Bay Area Ballplayers is a 5,200 square foot athletic training facility in Moraga, CA. Equipped with a 70 foot batting cage, two pitching mounds, the latest technology in performance tracking and data analysis, and a retail storefront with apparel & sporting goods. 05/3/2024 - 1:08 am | View Website
Major League Baseball Player Encyclopedia | Baseball Almanac Did you know that through today (May 2, 2024) in baseball history, and since 1876 (first year of the National League), there have been a total of 20,604 Major League ballplayers? In 2023, there were two-hundred sixty-one rookies of which 125 debuted in the American League, and 136 debuted in the National League. 05/2/2024 - 8:29 pm | View Website
Explaining perfect games and other baseball rarities through poker odds ... (Back then, ballplayers were paid so little that the Cleveland News took up a collection to raise money for Neal Ball, the shortstop who made the play.) There were just 15 unassisted triple plays ... 05/2/2024 - 11:25 am | View Website
How Are Three Top Young Major League Ballplayers Doing In 2024? Half are in the Baseball Hall of Fame and one is worthy but not elected due to steroid use. Six current players did it and appear on track to Hall status: Juan Soto (56 homers by age 21), Bryce ... 05/2/2024 - 7:08 am | View Website
The basketball robot programmed to troubleshoot and negate any problem with relative ease encountered a worthy brain-teaser Saturday night.
How does one center adjust to a team that’s able to throw three capable and well-rested bigs at him throughout the course of a game?
Nikola Jokic was actually stumped.
“Have a duplicate clone of myself,” he said finally.
Anthony Edwards is the future, and the evolution was televised Saturday night.
The Nuggets lost for only the second time in their past 15 home playoff games, dropping the opener 106-99 in the Western Conference semifinals. As fans shrugged toward the exits at Ball Arena, one thing was clear: The Minnesota Timberwolves are way better than the whiny Lakers.
First, the obvious.
The Denver Nuggets lost the first game of the second-round NBA playoff series to the Minnesota Timberwolves 106-99 at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado on Saturday night, May 4, 2024.
Foul trouble is rarely a blessing in disguise.
It might’ve helped the Timberwolves steal a road game in the first chapter of what’s sure to be a bitterly competitive series.
NBA Sixth Man of the Year Naz Reid played prolonged fourth-quarter minutes with Karl-Anthony Towns in foul trouble, and his 10-point burst in the last six minutes handed the Nuggets a 106-99 Game 1 loss on Saturday night.
This is the first time in the last two postseasons that Denver has trailed a series.
Initial thoughts from the Nuggets’ loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals on Saturday.
Naz Reid took over in the fourth: Timberwolves forward Naz Reid was named this season’s Sixth Man of the Year for a reason. But how many walked into Ball Arena on Saturday expecting Reid to turn into an All-Star in the fourth?