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After first playing guess the state (it's Massachusetts), we wondered what would possess this 18-year-old to take off his clothes, cover his face, jump a fence, and streak across the field. He hopped into the passenger seat of a waiting truck and sped off: the perfect, pointless crime. More »
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This young man named Jayden makes the type of running-dive catch that gets major leaguers on a slow day's top-plays countdown and lands 9-year-old kids on a top-prospects blog. More »
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Your morning roundup for May 12, the day old coot Yogi Berra will come up with something witty to say about turning 82, even though he's only 81. More »
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This is the Toms River, NJ, little league team being forced to perform the song they wrote. Put it in night vision, and it's indistinguishable from a hostage video. [Star-Ledger] More »
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Did you know that any team nicknamed the "Yankees" must, by law, engage in one beanball war and/or bat-swinging brawl each season with another team named the "Red Sox"? Even if that team is comprised of eight-year olds. More »
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A Little League coach in Washington State was arrested for burglary after enlisting kids from his team—including his own son—to help him break into an empty shop. The haul? Overhead lights and bolts. What a mastermind. More »
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The taunting rings in your ears and burns like fire, and will for years. A girl pitched a perfect game against your Little League team, and you struck out three times. Nelson Muntz approves. More »
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Nothing says sports like a bunch of crying children with their hopes and dreams ruthless dashed by ruthless capitalism. So, let's go to it, shall we? More »
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When we played Little League, our biggest risk of injury were the long-range dental implications from chewing on our glove. Today, if you walk around just about any city or town in America and look around long enough, you're bound to spot one or two kids with one arm noticeably longer than the other. Those would be the Little League pitchers. Yes, the Little League World Series begins today (sans Harold Reynolds; sad, really). The baseball season, which for most kids began in May, is still grinding along for some, even though school starts in about two weeks. Which also means that some kids have been pitching since May — 30 starts or more, in some cases — which, when you're 12, doesn't make a lot of sense, medically speaking. Even though Little League games are six innings regulation, that's a lot of pressure on growing arms. More »
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