It’s been 44 years since Willi Blumer last missed a softball season. He would be damned if this year was the first — even if he was too injured to actually play. So when his longtime team, cheekily called Consenting Adults, gathered on a Central Park ball field last month, the 83-year-old pitcher settled onto … Read more
Where ESPN is putting its microphones is a complete mystery. While broadcasting a softball game between Arizona State and Texas on Sunday, someone whispered obscene comments into a hot mic during a 0-1 pitch from Teagan Kavan. “Lick my ballsack,” a male voice said during the seventh inning, with the Longhorns leading, and eventually winning … Read more
You see something new every time you’re at the ballpark. For anyone at the Florida-Stetson softball game, that rang true Wednesday. During the squads’ matchup at Patricia Wilson Field in Deland, Fla., play was stopped briefly while players and fans gawked as Artemis II soared through the sky after being launched from Cape Canaveral. The … Read more
Tom Brady has a headstart over Peyton and Eli Manning as uncle and mentor to a superstar college athlete. As the football world waits for former top recruit Arch Manning to become the starting quarterback at Texas, the final leg of Maya Brady’s record-setting softball career at UCLA was on center stage Saturday in the … Read more
Move over, Olivia Dunne: There’s a new star taking the SEC by storm. Brylie St. Clair, a fifth-year outfielder for the Mississippi State softball team is returning to campus for the last time amid a wave of new fans. St. Clair, who has been dubbed the “Olivia Dunne of the Diamond,” announced her return to … Read more