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The Little League World Series Bracket Is So DumbThe Little League World Series is one of the best things on TV every summer. But the bracket design makes zero sense and it's time to discuss that....

It doesn’t get any more pathetic than watching the LLWSIt’s mostly accurate that youth sports are the last true, untainted brand of competition. Children are too naive to grasp the concept of money, and too preoccupied with having fun to care about the result, so they just run around and chase a ball for all the character-building reasons, but largely t...

The Little League World Series doesn’t care about Black peopleI wanted to see what they’d do. I decided to be patient, so I waited....

A Small Town, An International Event Canceled, And Tens Of Millions In Lost Revenue

Mayor Derek Slaughter is working from home today. You can hear his daughter through the phone, playing with her computer, perhaps between online learning sessions. It’s another unusual Tuesday in a country increasingly accustomed to the abnormal....

Little Leaguer On Pirates Game: “Not A Lot Of People Here”

Poor Pittsburgh. They have this gorgeous stadium, maybe the best in baseball, and yet the team is next-to-last in the National League after going 7-28 since the All-Star Break. They rank 24th in attendance with 19,692 fans a game. And now children are ragging on that fact!...

Craig Kimbrel Had To Pitch In A Ballpark Of Little Leaguers Mocking Him

The Cubs’ 7-1 win over the Pirates in Williamsport, Penn., on Sunday night wasn’t the tightest of ballgames, but the Little Leaguers in attendance had fun all the way through the end. In the ninth inning, with the game far out of reach and Craig Kimbrel on just to get some reps after coming off the ...

This Is A Rough Little League Injury

A 77 MPH Little League fastball might not be equivalent to a 100 MPH major-league fastball, but a pitch to the crotch is painful at any level of baseball....

There's A Lot To Process In This Story Of A Woman Who Drove Onto A Little League Field

A 51-year-old woman was arrested after she drove her car on a little league baseball field Friday night in Sanford, Maine, leading to one person dead. Carol Sharrow was charged with manslaughter in the death of 68-year-old Douglas Parkhurst, but it turned out that this tragedy was somehow even darke...