Louisville Slugger

The rest of this season has to be better than the first month and a half for the fifth-place White Sox, right? At least that's how Adam Dunn has it pegged. "We're only five or six games out of first place and we're playing about as bad as we can...

Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, decided not to use his specially made MaxBat black bat with a pink label Sunday. Players on the Orioles and Twins used various pink apparel and equipment on Mother’s...

MINNEAPOLIS — An annual Major League Baseball undertaking to provide exposure and money to cancer-awareness charities became embroiled in a bit of a controversy Friday, with an Oriole being one of the players inadvertently involved. On Sunday, as...

Colleges Salisbury ranked No. 1 in D-III softball for first time For the first time in program history, Salisbury has been named the top-ranked team in the nation by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Top 25 poll. The Sea Gulls (35-2)...

Highlight: Neftali Soto had four hits, including a two-run home run, scored two runs and knocked in two while Daniel Corcino limited the IronPigs to one run over six innings as Louisville beat Lehigh Valley 6-2 Monday night in Kentucky. Notable: Soto...

Highlight: Darin Ruf broke out of a prolonged slump with two home runs, two doubles and a team-record 12 total bases to power the IronPigs to a 12-7 win over Louisville Sunday afternoon in Kentucky. Notable: Ruf, who had been 2-for-27 since hitting his...

Highlight: Steve Susdorf lined a two-run pinch-hit double in the top of the ninth inning, then scored an insurance run to lead the IronPigs to a 5-3 win over Louisville Saturday night to open a four-game series in Kentucky. Notable: Lehigh Valley (9-13)...

Gabby Gabriel may be a freshman, but she’s no rookie. In her second season as Lincoln County’s pitcher, Gabriel is continuing to build on the dream that first formed when she was 10 years old — and on the experience she gained in her...

Louisville is a No. 5 seed that beat a No. 1 seed (defending champion Baylor) and a pair of twos (Tennessee and California) on its way to a date with another No. 1 seed, women's basketball powerhouse Connecticut, in the NCAA championship game Tuesday...

Are you a baseball fan or a football fan? Every year the sports media spend a lot of time and energy arguing about whether most Americans are one or the other. I think it's a silly argument for two reasons. First, it should obvious that most sports fans...

Mike Gottlieb feels like the Death Row inmate who gets a last-minute reprieve from the governor. Only in this case, the governor came up with $300,000 out of the state budget to keep Gottlieb's Towson University baseball team alive for a couple more...

Towson men's basketball Benimon a finalist for Lou Henson Award Towson University junior forward Jerrelle Benimon is among 25 finalists for the Lou Henson Award, it was announced Monday. The award is presented annually to the top mid-major player in...