The Savannah Bananas are pioneering a new, more entertaining form of baseball akin to basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters. Sold-out games at the 4,000-capacity Savannah Bananas Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia, feature dancing baseball players, coaches, and umpires — 120 different performers in all, including a maleleading cheer squad. And 38-year-old owner Jesse Cole, dressed in his … Read more
Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College, the Trib will be running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2022 season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly-alphabetical order, two per day, between June 11 and July 25. Contract data … Read more
Jon Masson | Wisconsin State Journal Sun Prairie’s Avree Antony announced on Twitter that she has orally committed to Colorado State University for women’s basketball. Antony, a 5-foot-10 guard, averaged 12.8 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game in 26 games last season as a junior for Sun Prairie. Antony was a … Read more
Kyle Soper accomplished something Saturday evening that no other Riverhead Raceway regular had done in 27 years. By earning his first NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour victory in Saturday’s Buzz Chew Chevrolet Cadillac 200 on Saturday evening, Soper became the first Riverhead regular to win a Tour race at the track since Ed Brunnhoelzl Jr. back … Read more
BETHESDA, MARYLAND | She wasn’t quite in a universe of one, but Sei Young Kim occupied a tiny minority early in the week of this KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. On Wednesday, just as the weather that softened Congressional Country Club rolled in, the 2020 winner of this championship was still hitting towering 4-iron shots on … Read more
On the surface, Wimbledon is more steeped in tradition than any other tennis tournament, yet it undergoes more radical changes from day to day than any other Grand Slam because it is the only one played on grass. As its grass stages gradually lose their moisture and then patches of the grass itself, players must … Read more
11:54 PM ET Alexa PhilippouESPN Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Hours after announcing the team had parted ways with 2012 WNBA MVP … Read more
When Neil Diamond He revealed to fans that he had Parkinson’s disease, another bombshell announcement quickly followed: He would be retiring from the concert touring. The news came in 2018, following a A remarkable 50-year career filled with hit after hit. Diamond reassured fans that although it was difficult for him to perform, he would … Read more
Photo: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars/YouTube Tensions are high as we pass the midway point of the competition. After a competitive design challenge honoring RuPaul’s own Legendary Legend looks, the field has shifted and some of these queens are beginning to pull ahead of the pack. And you KNOW I can’t resist a power ranking, … Read more
Dr. Steve J. Rios has worn many hats in his life. He was a cub reporter for the Miami Herald when they still used that term, he studied political science and taught government at Miami Dade College and research at Florida Atlantic University. He’s worked for the Miami Dade Early Learning coalition and launched a … Read more
