Pekin High School has one of the weirdest baseball fields in the country. It has claimed many victims along the way.
Pekin, located in central Illinois, is about 10 miles from Peoria, 100 miles from Champaign and 175 miles from Chicago. Its population hovers around 30,000 with a high school enrollment of just under 2,000.
There are some unique high school baseball fields out there. Dimensions are the most common oddity across the country, with varying lengths from left field to center field and so on and so forth.
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Former Stanford star Haley Jones made her long-anticipated transition to the next level on Monday after being selected No. 6 by the Dream in the 2023 WNBA draft. But, in the middle of her big night, Jones received a hilarious shout-out on Twitter from one pretty important person she apparently left on read: her new coach.
On a night when Jones was likely bombarded by calls and messages, Dream coach Tanisha Wright took to social media to ask her new rookie to pick up her phone so she could congratulate and welcome her to the team.
Sacramento is the No. 3 seed in the West and the feel-good story of the NBA season. But Golden State is healthy, dangerous and playoff-tested.
Months after being fired as head coach of the Cardinals, Kliff Kingsbury is reportedly headed back to college.
Kingsbury will join Lincoln Riley’s staff at USC to work with the team’s quarterbacks, according to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network. It will be his first time coaching in college since he left for the NFL ahead of the 2019 season.
Like Riley, Kingsbury’s career ties back to Mike Leach and the Air Raid offense at Texas Tech. Kingsbury was the head coach for the Red Raiders from 2013 to ’18, posting a 35–40 overall record.
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Here’s the big thing to watch in every NBA play-in tournament game.
The 2022-23 NBA regular season is now officially in the books. And with that chapter of the league year now completed, we now turn our attention over to the third annual play-in tournament.
To help us prepare for the festivities, we figured it wise to preview each of the initial matchups by focusing on the in-game wrinkle that could decide who makes the playoff and who goes home early.
Eastern Conference
No. 8 Atlanta Hawks (41-41) vs. No.
Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal is tired of rowdy fans that lash out at athletes over bad bets.
Beal, 29, spoke with reporters on Monday as part of an exit media session for the year — Washington (35-47) missed the playoffs. He looked generally frustrated throughout the interview.
“I’m definitely frustrated”
– Bradley Beal pic.twitter.com/W1Ww9bmblw
— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 10, 2023
Beal Reminds Fans Losing is Part of the Game
The 11-year vet addressed an incident involving a fan last week where things got physical.
The Baltimore Orioles are on the come up. As the second-worst team in the AL East in 2022 turns its focus toward the future, beer has become a big part of their day-to-day.
Not really, but in spirit.
Before the season began, Adley Rutschman and the young core got together with fans to crush some brewskis.
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Warriors forward Draymond Green weighed in on the Rudy Gobert incident which occurred during the Timberwolves’ regular-season finale on Sunday. After Minnesota’s center was seen throwing a punch at teammate Kyle Anderson during a timeout in the game against the Pelicans, Green took to Twitter with a brief reaction.
The Warriors forward elaborated on the altercation on the latest episode of his podcast, The Draymond Green Show, during which he slapped Gobert with backhanded compliments.
NASCAR indefinitely suspended driver Cody Ware on Monday as he faces assault charges in connection to an April 3 incident.
Ware was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault on a female and felony assault by strangulation inflicting serious injury after an incident in Mooresville, N.C. He was taken into custody Monday and subsequently released on $3,000 bond.
Ware, 27, is the son of Rick Ware—the owner of Rick Ware Racing, for which Cody drives the No. 51 car. His brother, Carson, is also a stock car driver.