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Local Little Leagues set June 3 deadline for decision on starting season
District 16 and 31 Little League will decide by June 3 whether the season will be played or canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Play ball: Korean baseball league begins in empty stadiums
SEOUL, South Korea The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher s mitt echoing around empty stadiums.
Greater Wilkes-Barre Half Marathon canceled
WILKES-BARRE Area runners will have to wait a little longer to compete in the Greater Wilkes-Barre Half Marathon.
On This Date: GAR basketball star Bob Sura decided on Florida State
Bob Sura s decision in 1991 came down to wanting to play against the best. That s why the GAR basketball star decided to play at Florida State, which was about to join the ACC.
Don Shula, winningest coach in pro football history, dies at 90
MIAMI Measuring Don Shula by wins and losses, no NFL coach had a better year. Or career.
Live golf returns May 17 as McIlroy, Johnson headline charity match
Live golf returns to television in just under two weeks with a $3 million charity skins match for COVID-19 relief that includes Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and the broadcast debut of fabled Seminole
Former GAR standout Shakir Soto released by Seattle Seahawks
Former GAR standout Shakir Soto was waived Monday by the Seattle Seahawks, the fourth time he s been released by an NFL team.
On This Date: The Bus drove into town to be the guest speaker at the VOA dinner in 2005
NFL star running back Jerome Bettis was the guest speaker in 2005 at the Volunteers of America benefit dinner at the Woodlands Inn & Resort, and he volunteered his opinion on several subjects.
The menu: College athletes get cooking classes, grocery tips
Nevada offensive lineman Nate Brown is doing his best to eat right, like many football players and other college athletes scattered around the country without access to training facilities amid the co
Olympians look to help young athletes during shutdown
CHICAGO When Jesse Smith looks out at his Zoom audience, he knows exactly what the crowd is going through.
Duplantis, Lavillenie split gold in backyard pole-vaulting
French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie hardly treated this like a garden-variety competition.
William Byron scores 3rd iRacing victory of NASCAR’s series
CHARLOTTE, N.C. William Byron showed he s the sharpest gamer in NASCAR s iRacing Series with his third victory in four events.
‘The Wax Pack’ chronicles baseball card-fueled trip
NEW YORK Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream about.
‘Field of Dreams’: Fathers & sons, phantoms and phenoms
NEW YORK Baseball and tears, the ones streaking down cheeks.
Raging Bull delivers outside the ring as classic sports film
Jake LaMotta was a straight-ahead brawler, so determined to wreak havoc every time he entered the boxing ring that he handed the great Sugar Ray Robinson his first loss.
On This Date: Vandals created a sign of the time in 1967 at local football stadium
The mid-1960s were a volatile time for local high schools. Mergers took several small high schools and molded them into one big one. There were proponents and opponents throughout the process.
Flyers’ Provorov waiting out coronavirus outbreak in Wilkes-Barre
Ivan Provorov is one of the lucky ones during the pause in the NHL s season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus testing remains a major hurdle for sports to return
MIAMI Politicians, players and owners are trying to figure out a way to get baseball, basketball and hockey going again, not only for economic reasons but as a welcome diversion for a social distanc
NASCAR’s return to racing will be watched closely
CHARLOTTE, N.C. NASCAR is preparing to be the first major U.S. sport to restart its season during the coronavirus pandemic a welcomed return to racing and one that will be closely watched by the p