PHOENIX — San Francisco Giants rookie Bryce Eldridge was logged at 6-foot-7 “and some change,” he said. That was the measurement for the slugger for the major leagues’ Automated Ball-Strike System. That is one expansive strike zone — but a more defined one, at least. “I think ...
God bless my wife. If I bump into a running friend, she gets that look you get when you’re about to hear the story of your Aunt Edna’s gall bladder surgery — for the fourth time. Yes, runners speak a different language. Most of it revolves around one of four things — running ...
The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks found their starting quarterback in free agency last year, landing Sam Darnold. The New England Patriots went from worst to first in the AFC East after signing several key veterans who helped them reach the Super Bowl. Winning free agency doesn’t ...
Quite some time ago I was fortunate enough to interview Babe Ruth’s charming daughter, Julia Ruth-Stevens, and her son Tom in her winter home outside of Phoenix, Arizona. The house featured some, but not a great deal of, Ruth memorabilia, but more importantly, it housed a whole lot of ...
MILAN — Alysa Liu probably cared the least of all the women in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics about winning the gold medal. Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the striped hair, prominent frenulum piercing and carefree attitude never showed any worry or strain ...
With two exceptions, Penn State’s University Park campus is a fertile landscape of sustained innovation, productivity and achievement. The two exceptions are the desert wastelands of Rec Hall and the Bryce Jordan Center where the home basketball teams toil in a state of perpetual ...
