One of the very first baseball games I ever umpired was played under protest. It was the summer of 1967 and at 16, I had ...

Becoming a major league hitter usually means a player managed to stand out among thousands of aspiring people, from high ...

Recently, it was announced that former Seattle Mariners closer Fernando Rodney is on the ballot for the National Baseball ...

Berneice has never seen Anton’s video. I’d rather her lasting image of my athletic career be something other than a shifting ...

Editor's Note: Sports writer Roger Merriam is compiling a "20 Favorites" series highlighting some of his favorite athletes in ...

The Madison City Council met Monday night with one item in particular on the agenda, the first reading of an agreement with BallCorps LLC for improvements to Toyota Field.

In my family, that person is my youngest brother. But rather than rant about Donald Trump, automated umpires in professional ...

Former Wichita State star Shane Dennis headlines the 2025 class of inductees into the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame announced ...

The 33-year-old was brilliant last year after being traded to the Astros, going 5-1 with a 2.70 ERA in 10 games down the ...

Cody Stashak debuted in the majors in 2019 with the Minnesota Twins and played with the team through 2022, before undergoing ...

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The NIC-10 is the most stable conference in Illinois high school sports and also one of the most compact, but it has also ...