Illinois' Brad Underwood coached for 26 years before landing his first Division I head coaching job. Now in Year 39, the well-traveled 62-year-old is finally heading to the Final Four, where the Fighting Illini meet UConn on Saturday. He's doing it in what he's long referred to as his dream ...
Salvador Perez and the Kansas City Royals have been baseball's best at utilizing their robot challenges through the first weekend of the Automated Ball-Strike System. Perez topped all catchers by going 4-0 on challenges, while San Francisco's Heliot Ramos and Cincinnati's Eugenio Suárez were ...
Last July, Matt Gill moved from Sydney to Melbourne to train in a sport he had never previously played at a newly established punting academy that had not yet produced a player. By the end of October, Gill was receiving interest from American colleges, and by January he was signed to play at ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Royals owner John Sherman acknowledged Monday that the Major League Baseball team feels a sense of urgency in deciding where it will play beyond the 2031 season, when its lease at aging but beloved Kauffman Stadium is due to expire. The Royals have considered several ...
Leroy Harris III’s performance as a sophomore in 2025 might have come out of the blue for Kansas fans, and perhaps even for his own coaches, after he arrived as an unheralded transfer from Chattanooga. Not so much for Harris himself. “It was never a surprise,” he said. The 6-foot-5 ...
Free State baseball had as good of a season as possible in 2025, winning 28 games, the Sunflower League and the 6A state title. But for the Firebirds still on the team, they’re not resting on their laurels. The reminders of last year's success have only made the team hungrier to repeat it in ...
