If you’ve been watching the MLB Playoffs this October, it’s been hard to miss advertisements featuring Sydney Sweeney in her underwear, Megan Fox in a red bodysuit selling erectile dysfunction pills, or the latest horror movie set to hit theaters this Halloween. October baseball has parents across the country wondering if they need to keep … Read more
They’re in a league of their own. The 3,000 women of Bombshell Baseball Club take game days very seriously — and if they can’t make it to the stadium, they’re dissecting games live in their huge group chat. “Every single at bat, every out, is being talked about in that moment,” founder Alley Cabral told … Read more
Kate Upton has seen enough. She will be giving up America’s pastime and admitted as much while on the “Today” show on Wednesday just days after husband Justin Verlander retired from his 21-year MLB career. “I’m so excited. I’m never watching another baseball game again,” the 34-year-old model admitted while sitting next to Verlander when … Read more
The bases are not the only things getting loaded. The fun-loving ladies on the new Paramount+ reality show “Team Moms: Baseball” know how to have a good time during their sons’ marathon game days — and it’s not about peanuts and crackerjacks. “We live at the fields, we gotta cut loose as parents, too,” Trish … Read more
Victor Rojas, an ESPN broadcaster and the head baseball coach at Hastings College, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, he revealed in a social media post Thursday. “A week ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer,” Rojas wrote in a statement posted to X. “Thanks to yearly checkups and PSA tests, we caught it early, … Read more
Karl-Anthony Towns just dunked on Coco Chanel. A new report from the fashion data platform Lyst found that the hottest accessory in the world is currently a New York Knicks baseball cap from New Era, the Buffalo-based company that makes bestselling game day merch. The findings put the Knicks above hardcore luxury labels including Chanel … Read more
Motown legend Martha Reeves explained that her rendition of the national anthem “wasn’t the performance I had hoped for” at the inaugural Women’s Professional Baseball League game in Springfield, Illinois on Saturday. Many fans noted differences in her vocals from earlier in her career after Reeves sang the Star-Spangled Banner at Robin Roberts Stadium before … Read more
Baseball fans may have been doing a double-take when they turned on ESPN’s broadcast of Thursday’s Braves-Nationals game. Calling the game alongside Eduardo Pérez was Karl Ravech, who had been part of the ESPN’s mass layoffs last week, leading to plenty of surprise from viewers. Despite being let go by ESPN, Ravech was given the … Read more
The Oakland Ballers, an independent professional baseball team, are turning an April Fools’ joke into a reality for fans at the end of July. On the first day of April, the team posted an alternative uniform to their Instagram that featured a new name and new look. The team went from Ballers to Blazers and … Read more
LPGA star Brooke Henderson and minor league baseball player Ricky Castro have announced their engagement on Instagram. “God is so good for giving us each other!” Castro wrote on Instagram. The announcement, shared to Castro’s Instagram account Sunday, came two days after Henderson finished second at the Amundi Evian Championship in France, her second top-three … Read more
It’s been a long and exhausting season for the Angels, but it appears the team has helped at least one fan rediscover his love for baseball. New York Times award-winning sports author Jeff Pearlman released a video on TikTok, revealing the Angels have rekindled his passion for the sport. “In the last [month] I’ve gone … Read more
They’ve got balls. Literally. This week at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, two rival streetwear brands are stepping up to the plate with branded merch for New York’s beloved baseball teams, the Mets and the Yankees. Who will capture the hearts and the closet space of sports-loving Big Apple shoppers? Taking a big swing in … Read more
The Phillies broadcast took an interesting turn Wednesday night. During the Phillies’ win over the Blue Jays, broadcaster John Kruk, known for his humorous storytelling, shared the tale of being left in Mexico City on the way to Venezuela for the 1986 Caribbean Series for not having a passport. “Some kid came up to me… … Read more
Before MLB allowed TV money to become the tail that wagged its dog, one of life’s great simple pleasures was weekend baseball. And before TV executives decided that we prefer our baseball telecasts smothered in verbal and visual detritus — as if we demanded to know the titles and speeds of the past nine pitches … Read more
Aaron Judge hit it out of the park again. A one-of-kind baseball card of Judge in his first professional season with the Yankees sold at auction for a staggering $838,750 on Friday. The 2013 Bowman Aaron Judge Superfractor 1/1 — depicting the eventual Yankees captain just after he was selected by the team in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft — … Read more
An exercising construction worker abs-olutely stole the show during a college baseball game on Monday. Toward the end of the Cal Baptist vs. UCSB tilt at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium in Santa Barbara, cameras captured a crane operator getting in a quick workout at the top of his heavy duty machine. The man – wearing a … Read more
While the New Orleans Pelicans gave the Lakers all they could handle in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, a real pelican wreaked havoc on a college baseball game some 120 miles north. As UC Santa Barbara was facing off with Loyola Marymount University at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium in Isla Vista, an enormous pelican flew onto … Read more
Farmers Almanac spring forecast: “A deep, dark and foreboding sky lingers in the approaching MLB atmosphere. Fans are advised to be prepared to take cover and shelter in basements or whatever room is closest to the ground to discourage jumping from windows to escape the scene.” Another season of telecasts — free TV, cable TV, … Read more
The Worldwide Leader has figured out how to fill the empty program spot left by the departure of “Sunday Night Baseball.” ESPN will debut “Women’s Sports Sundays” this summer featuring the top games in the WNBA and the NWSL, with the series running nine weeks and including 12 primetime games. The new programming will include … Read more
Mookie Betts has pulled out of the World Baseball Classic, revealing this week his pregnant wife “said she’d divorce me” if he opted to play in the 2026 tournament instead of being by her side. Betts, 33, told Adin Ross on the internet star’s livestream Wednesday that he intended to suit up for the U.S. … Read more