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Will USC baseball repeat as champs?

It's 21 days and counting to the start of a new baseball season for the Gamecocks. Carolina opened practice Friday as the defending national champs. Head Coach Ray Tanner and his guys still have that warm fuzzy feeling that comes wit [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

UM baseball ranked 18th in poll

The University of Miami baseball team was ranked 18th in the USA Today/ESPN poll. Just hours after being ranked No. 24 in the Baseball America Preseason Top 25 Poll, the Hurricanes cracked the top 20 in the second of the four preseason r [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

NZ PM's son offers rugby tips to baseball star

For most New Zealand teenagers the summer holidays involve going to the beach, movies and hanging out at malls, not giving a US$30 million ($A30.2m) baseball player tips on how to throw a rugby ball. Summer holidays tend to be a bit diff [...]

Posted On : Jan, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Australia crush NZ 11-0 at baseball champs

The Oceania Under-16 Baseball Championships got swinging in Auckland today, with New Zealand hosting Australia and Guam. A place at the World Champs in Mexico was up for grabs and the Kiwis made a great start, trouncing Guam 14-3 in the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Major League Baseball Goes Down Under

The sweet sound of a zooming fastball cracking against the powered-up stroke of a home-run hitter defines summer in America. These days, it’s being replicated in Australia — as long as you don’t mind meat pies instead o [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Bringing Baseball To Inner-city Harrisburg Youth (Video)

Reviving Baseball in Inner-cities' is giving city youth across America a chance to realize their potential. The program run by baseball teams across the United States is teaching youth about baseball, the discipline needed for achiev [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball, softball teams to make appearances on TV

The University of Alabama baseball team will appear on ESPN once during the 2011 season and the Crimson Tide softball team will have four regular-season games shown on the ESPN family of networks. The lone ESPN appearance for the Tide ba [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball player, 14, dies after leaping from tenth floor of ...

A freshman baseball player stunned his team-mates by jumping to his death from the 10th floor of a hotel. Matthew Mezza, 14, suddenly left in the middle of baseball practice and dashed across the street to a nearby hotel in Santa Monica, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Jays' road show aims to promote baseball in Calgary

The Toronto Blue Jays are coming to Calgary. In an effort to promote baseball across Canada, manager John Farrell, pitching coach Bruce Walton, catcher J.P. Arencibia and pitchers Ricky Romero and Jesse Litsch will visit the city Wednesd [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

2 MTSU baseball players face rape charges

Two MTSU baseball players, Conlon Palo and Damian Seguen, have been charged with rape and dismissed from the team.Palo, 18, and Seguen, 21, were arrested by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, according to an incident [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball basks in labor peace

Major League Baseball and its players’ union will begin contract talks soon with none of the lockout threats that are plaguing the NFL and NBA. “We’re on a constructive path,” commissioner Bud Selig said. Selig of [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Trevor Hoffman, Baseball's Leading Closer, Retires

Trevor Hoffman will join the San Diego Padres front office after deciding to end an 18-year pitching career that produced a Major League Baseball record 601 regular-season saves, MLB. “It’s time to move on,” the 43-year [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Westford News and Notes:WA baseball program offering four-we...

The WA baseball program is offering a four-week youth baseball clinic at Westford Academy. This clinic is designed to help players develop the proper and basic skills of baseball. Emphasis will be placed on learning the correct technique [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball: Local stars help the kids

“You are the most important person on the baseball field,” former Catawba All-American catcher Ryan Query barks with the authority of a drill sergeant. “You are the only one who can see everything. You touch the ball ev [...]