Little League World Series includes team from Cuba – Bayamo – for the first time. One player is the cousin of major-leaguers Yuli and Lourdes Gurriel.
Author: Cesar Brioso, USA TODAY
From Title IX to LGBTQ inclusion: How AAGPBL helped change trajectory of women’s sports
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‘Technology has passed this course by’: Rory McIlroy calls TPC River Highlands obsolete
After an 18 under at the Travelers Championship, Rory McIlroy was unimpressed by TPC River Highlands, saying “technology has passed this course by.”
‘Ow! Ow! Ow!’: Yankees radio announcer John Sterling hit in forehead by foul ball
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Thornton Academy beat Bonny Eagle in a high school basketball game in Maine featuring four lead changes and a buzzer beater in the final 19 seconds.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers ends ‘darkness retreat’ at Oregon facility, per report
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers ended his “darkness retreat” at Sky Cave Retreats in southern Oregon, ESPN reported.
‘We may wake up some morning with no ball club’: Integration assured demise of Negro league baseball
Negro league baseball, a successful Black enterprise, eventually faded from existence after Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier in 1947.
‘We’re not leaving’: How Wendell Smith, Sam Lacy and Black press pushed to integrate MLB during 1930s and 1940s
The Black press, led by sports writers Wendell Smith and Sam Lacy, advocated to end baseball’s color barrier and integrate MLB in the 1930s and 1940s.
Ralph Ávila, who helped establish Dodgers’ baseball academy in Dominican Republic, dies at 92
Ralph Ávila, who helped create the Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball academy in the Dominican Republic in the 1980s, died Monday in Miami at age 92.