Happy 67th birthday to three-time All-Star, 1988 National League Cy Young winner and World Series champion Orel Hershiser! Hershisher pitched for 18 Major League Seasons, spending the first 12 and the final season of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, with his most dominant campaign coming in 1988. Not only did “Bulldog,” start 35 … Read more
The following was provided via team press release: Minor League Player of the Year: Infielder Bob Seymour Seymour, 26, hit .263/.327/.553 (106-for-403) with 21 doubles, three triples, a career-high 30 home runs, 87 RBI, 38 walks and 70 runs scored over 105 games for Triple-A Durham in his fifth season as a Rays farmhand. At … Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League held its 2025 Awards Gala during the Board of Governors’ Annual Meeting at Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Thursday evening, presenting several awards for excellence and service: Rockford IceHogs president of business operations Ryan Snider has been voted by the Board as the winner of the James C. … Read more
The APP Tour saw fireworks in its seventh tour stop of 2025 over the Independence Day weekend. New APP Tour winners were crowned in multiple events this weekend. The beautiful The Tennis & Pickleball Club at Newport Beach hosted the event from July 2 – 6. Let’s get into the action. Top Storylines Only one … Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League honored Ben Adams, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the Cleveland Monsters, and Ariel Padilla, director of ticket sales and marketing for the Ontario Reign, with league awards at the 2025 AHL Team Business Meetings in Indianapolis today. Adams has been named the winner of the … Read more
From Yusuf Pathan’s barnstorming cameo in the very first Indian Premier League final to Krunal Pandya’s ice-cool spell that sealed Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s long-awaited crown in 2025, the Player of the Match (POTM) award has become a time-capsule of the league’s biggest nights. Every season’s finale has produced its own solitary hero, a cricketer who … Read more
For most of the year I’ve harped on the Royals’ inability to hit for any kind of power. In case you’ve missed it, they’re actually doing quite well in terms of batting average. They could do better in OBP, but the real problem is that almost all of their hits are singles. Today both teams … Read more
We updated this list from the THW Archives of the oldest and youngest winners in NHL history, originally published Jan. 19, 2015. And, before you say anything, I didn’t do the math to figure out who was older or younger by months if there was a tie, except for the Calder Trophy’s youngest winner. (All … Read more
File this one under, “The other guys get paid, too.” Omar Narváez and Rafael Devers were the big heroes in this one for the Red Sox. Devers, obviously, is expected to play hero most nights. Narváez is somewhat new to the role, but, as the first sentence says, the other guys get paid, too. Still, … Read more
The Royals have done it, they have secured their first winning road trip of the season, completing their fourth win out of a total of six planned contests, and fourth out of five completed contests. If you didn’t see the subhead above, the Royals have now shutout their opponents in half of their last eight … Read more