Tanmay Srivastava, Virat Kohli's former U-19 teammate, will debut as a BCCI-qualified umpire in the IPL's 18th edition. He ...

Major League Baseball is experimenting with an Automated Ball-Strike system, specifically one at Salt River Fields, where the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies meet for spring training. The ...

Bulls guard Josh Giddey has produced another brilliant performance with a near triple-double, having 21 points and 12 assists in Chicago's loss to the Clippers.

A baseball umpire from London, Ont., is among three Canadians selected to umpire at the 2025 Little League World Series tournament in Williamsport, Pa., this summer. Rob Macdonald, 35, will take ...

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

The former Hofstra softball star again will umpire MLB games in spring training and has been added to the substitute list for the regular season. Pawol, 48, was the first woman in 17 years to get ...

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Kansas City Royals catcher Freddy Fermin (34) takes a pitch as home plate umpire Quinn Wolcott (81) calls ...

Major League Baseball's exhibition season gets underway ... using a Hawk-Eye camera. Unlike with human umpires, who studies have shown adjust the strike-zone parameters based on the count, ABS ...

Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani speaks to reporters during spring training baseball practice ... Dodgers slugger Max Muncy was in the strike zone. Home plate umpire Tony Randazzo ...