“John was active in the Jaycees, a member of the Glastonbury Sportsman Association, and thoroughly enjoyed coaching his daughters’ softball teams and working at the Girl Scout Camps. John was a true outdoorsman. He was either pheasant hunting with his trusty dogs, Bandit ...
Kirst has been a staple in college lacrosse for three years now. He is the only player on this list who has been a semifinalist for the Tewaaraton twice already. However, the trophy has alluded him to this point. He is entering his final season with Cornell, already ...
1931. The first batter she faced was Ruth, followed by Lou Gehrig, the deadliest hitting duo in baseball history. Mitchell struck them both out. There was a box score to prove it and news stories proclaiming her “organized baseball’s...
President-elect Donald Trump urged everyone to keep the Carter family in their prayers. “Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History,”...
Jane Lynch towers at 1.83m, so it should come as no surprise that the Glee star was a super basketball and softball player before she hit our screens. While she was really good, especially due to her height, she actually wasn't a big fan of basketball, but she did love softball. Twit...
Tiffany Thomas Lopez, a softball player on full scholarship, says she complained about Nassar to three athletic trainers in 1998, a year after Boyce and the second gymnast met with Klages to reveal their alleged abuse. "I felt like they thought I was a liar," Thomas Lopez says. She eventu...
Jane Lynch towers at 1.83m, so it should come as no surprise that the Glee star was a super basketball and softball player before she hit our screens. While she was really good, especially due to her height, she actually wasn't a big fan of basketball, but she did love so...
If America's Tom Pappas wins the decathlon in Athens this summer, will he really be the world's greatest athlete or is it like the restaurant near my house that claims it serves the world's greatest hamburger? Don't get me wrong -- it's a good hamburger. But the best in the world...
“In my first time to pitch to Babe,” Wells, who passed away in 1986, is quoted as saying in a Bleacher Report story about his life, “my catcher Johnny Bassler came to the mound and asked me, ‘What are you going to throw him?’ And I said, ‘Nothing.’” ...