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Most coaches want to be able to do more than teach their athletes to win faceoffs and dodge defenders. Hannah Foslien/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Baseball

Are high school sports living up to their ideals?

Staff Writer - September 1, 2025

New York Mets manager Casey Stengel and outfielder Jim Hickman celebrate after breaking their 17-game losing streak in 1962. Bettmann/Getty Images

Baseball

What White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf can learn from the last team to lose 120 games

Jake Elmore and Joey Votto

Baseball

Utility Power Player Jake Elmore has made MLB history and baseball fans want to see more of him

Hank Greenberg hit 331 home runs with a batting average of .313 during his career. Sporting News via Getty Images

Baseball

Up against Hank Greenberg, baseball’s first Jewish superstar, antisemitism struck out

Baseball

In a state wrought with racial tension, Jackie Robinson…

Baseball

Why so many baseball experts whiffed with last year’s predictions

Staff Writer - March 31, 2016

Baseball

Matt Fields- Professional Perspective

Staff Writer - September 23, 2015

Baseball

Matt Fields- Blessed to be Playing

Staff Writer - September 13, 2015

In a 2024 exhibition game at Manzanar, players – many of them descendants of internment camp detainees – donned custom 1940s-style uniforms. Aaron Rapoport, CC BY-SA

Baseball

Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic...

Staff Writer - October 18, 2025

The plan for a new Rays stadium looks promising. But will it deliver for Tampa taxpayers? Tampa Bay Rays

Baseball

Sorry, Tampa Bay, mixed‑use districts don’t reverse the dismal economics of...

Staff Writer - April 23, 2026

EXPLORING NATURE

This screenshot juxtaposes a fossil of stem from the plant Archaeopitys eastmanii (bottom) and a close-up of its vascular system (top). The specimen was found in Kentucky and is over 350 million years old. Ingrid C. Romero, CC BY-SA

Education

Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope...

Staff Writer - May 5, 2026

Ingrid C. Romero, Smithsonian Institution and Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution Approximately 145 million: That’s the number of specimens...

Gas prices were well over $4 a gallon on April 28, 2026, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What’s in the price of a gallon of gas?

May 1, 2026

The new federal classification of marijuana regulates only medical use; recreational use is still determined by state laws. tvirbickis/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Reclassification of marijuana opens doors for much‑needed medical research into the...

April 29, 2026

An artisanal miner holds a cobalt stone at a mine near Kolwezi, Congo, in 2022. About 20,000 people work there among toxic materials. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images

The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy...

April 28, 2026

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate Mass at the Malabo stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on April 23, 2026, on the last day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. AP Photo/Misper Apawu

‘Just war’ has guided Catholic thinking on conflict for centuries –...

April 26, 2026