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Why throw like a girl when you can coach like one? And that's a philosophy Alyssa Nakken stands by. With the San Francisco Giants promoting Nakken, she has become the first full-time female assistant coach in Major League Baseball history. Gabe Kapler, the Giants' new manager, made the move to bring the 29-year-old up the team's ranks to join assistant [...]
The month of February — other than the Super Bowl — is a rather dull month in the world of sports. Except in 2020. On Feb. 22, the San Diego Seals and Vancouver Warriors pro lacrosse teams will suit up for the first-ever professional sports event held on an active U.S. Marine base. The teams will play a regular season [...]
There may be no crying in baseball, but it's a different story in college football, especially with Samford offensive lineman George Grimwade-Musto in the picture. Born George Grimwade, the college senior decided to change his name to honor his stepfather, who has raised him since second grade. “It sounds weird calling him my stepdad because he’s always been my dad [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals may have clinched a division title on Sunday by beating the Chicago Cubs, but the real win came before the first pitch, byway of Derrick Goold, the man usually responsible for telling the story rather than being it. Goold, the lead Cardinals beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, performed CPR on 64-year-old videographer Mike Flanary, who [...]
Any college football program will tell you they put the health and safety of their players first. Few go beyond and extend that philosophy to the reporters who cover them. However, one unnamed Power Five school is, according to Nicole Auerbach, a senior writer for The Athletic CFB. Auerbach explained in a Twitter thread on Wednesday that one school with [...]
There's no NFL team having as good a start to training camp as the Cleveland Browns. Sure, install is going well, players' conditioning is improving and coaches are learning which numbers they can call on. But, look to their record to see the real success. No, not their 1-0 preseason start but another defining number: 442. That's how many dogs [...]
Out with the old, in with the new. Enter Lindsay Gottlieb, the first women's collegiate head coach to be recruited to an NBA team's staff. With the Cleveland Cavaliers going 19-63 last season, there was no other choice but to turn the coaching roster upside down. So, rather than looking within the league, the front office turned their attention to [...]
Recently retired NBA star Dwyane Wade surprised the 2019 graduating class of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by giving a commencement speech at their graduation ceremony. "Today, you will close a chapter in your lives and embark on new experiences and journeys and memories. And it's a time to celebrate and be proud of everything you've done to make it [...]
It turns out that man's best friend is also runner's best friend. In March, Thomas Panek became the first blind person to complete the NYC Half Marathon, but he didn't do it with a human to guide him along the course. Instead, three specially-trained dogs shouldered that responsibility. Panek finished the 13.1-mile race in 2 hours, 20 minutes and 51 [...]
Two years ago, University of Tennessee swimmer Maddy Banic was carried off the NCAA Championship pool deck on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital. The culprit: a severe panic attack. Ever since then, she worked not on her kick turns, but on her mental health. It all paid off, and her healing was highlighted in March as she [...]
