Softball: An American steamroller
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ATHENS The United States women&#39;s team completed an almost flawless romp through the Olympics, winning the gold medal with a 5-1 victory over Australia - another dominant performance by the best softball team America has ever built.
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Jayson Stark writes for ESPN, âItâs hard to say exactly which moment it was that we realized the iPod had taken over our entire civilization. But it might have been this one: The day we first heard, last summer, that baseball players were using their iPods to do their pregame video studies  â  as opposed to, say, their pregame Shakira video studies. What we have here, friends, is one of historyâs most amazing gizmos ever.â
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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ATHENS The American softball team won its third straight gold medal with a nearly unblemished run through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over Australia.
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ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. softball team won its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over an Australian team that, like the rest of softball's elite, never had a chance...
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With all the questions that have flowed through Josh Beckett's initial season with the Red Sox -- Why all the home runs? When is he going to live up to his potential? Why did Anibal Sanchez, and not Beckett, throw the first no-hitter between the two? -- the final effort of the season from the prize trade acquisition seemed strangely ...
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Imagine. You play college baseball in Boston. You spent the winter hitting in poorly lit indoor cages with poor backgrounds. Finally, you get to play outside for the first time and you step in to face . . .
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Nearly everywhere you turned in the 2007 softball season, there was a top-flight pitcher. North, South, and everywhere in between, many offensive-minded players were kept at bay by these fireballers.
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This is Roger Clemens in the twilight of his career. It is a warm and fuzzy story, about how he came out of retirement this winter to join his hometown team for one final
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For Doug Mientkiewicz, the hardest part of playing second turned out not to be the double play pivot, fielding ground balls, or applying the tag on a steal. No, it came when he was hit by a 6-foot-3-inch, 230-pound train.
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A few years ago, the Cardinalsâ Rick Ankiel was one of the best young left-handed pitchers in the major leagues. Now heâs hitting and fielding in the minor leagues.
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The top half of the first inning passed with deceptive speed and ease. Three minutes. Eight pitches. It was quick and efficient even by Tim Wakefield standards. But as with all things pertaining to the knuckleball, fortunes also change in a hurry; some might say they rise and fall with the wind. So, without any warning, an auspicious start quickly ...
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It was not a pitch Roger Clemens regretted. Inner half of the plate, a little up and 94 mph. The Rocket is going to Cooperstown on such pitches.
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At the racetracks of America there is a universal term for a horse such as Ghostzapper: a freak. He has talent that dwarfs even those
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Going, going, gone. The massive 46-ounce Louisville Slugger used by Babe Ruth to drill the first home run in Yankee Stadium history was sold for a record $1.26 million Thursday to an unidentified private collector.
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First and foremost, the Red Sox can hit. They look like a slow-pitch softball team, with all that unruly hair, and they tee off on pitches like one.
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She was a freshman pitcher who threw a knuckleball and assorted other junk, and a "terrible-hitting" second baseman at Falmouth High in Maine, when Emily Christy, who learned her game at the summer baseball camps Ed Flaherty ran at the University of Southern Maine, decided it might be best to play softball instead.