The New York Giants opened organized team activities this week, and part of those activities are competitions and team-bonding exercises so that the players can get to know one another. One of the ...

IN THE NICHE sport of competitive gripping (yes, you read that right), few feats are as impressive as the double-plate pinch hold with two old-school York Barbell 45-pound plates. Plate pinching ...

The package delivered this week to Eynon Buick GMC contained 50 new license plates from the state Department of Transportation. As far as owner Larry Benson is concerned, it held nothing but joy. “It ...

Anytime I’m trying to understand a structure of the human body, I look for analogies to something I already “get.” For instance, joint stability can be an overwhelming topic to grasp, but the basic ...

Edwin Jackson has been asked to pinch-run enough times before - 13 times in his career, four times since joining the Nationals last month - that by now he knows when to anticipate it. And he knows to ...

LOS ANGELES – Hitting a blur is supposed to be the hardest task in professional sports, and so the notion of amplifying the degree of difficulty is hard to fathom. Yet pinch-hitting does just that, ...

Denard Span approached the plate, pinch-hitting with two on and the Seattle Mariners trailing by one run in the bottom of the eighth inning. This was a game the Mariners appeared to have so little ...

When Realtor Jack Davis’ commercial real estate business began to slump a few years ago, he started to think about where he could cut costs. He thought of the usual places – vacation, car and clothing ...

Colorado Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland is "fine," according to manager Bud Black, after a collision at home plate with Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jeff Hoffman. Freeland, a Rockies starting pitcher, ...