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The Monza Challenger recently faced two controversial incidents where players accused ball kids of disrupting their tennis game. Interestingly, both players went up to the chair umpire to make ...

“All the kids in there think they have it. We try to find out and see who does.” If every umpire has that certain twist of DNA—whatever characteristic that makes someone volunteer for this ...

YOU MIGHT not know the name Gerry Davis, but if you were a Red Sox fan in 2004, he played a key role in one of the happiest moments of your life. Standing behind first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz as ...

The Merced County All-Star Football Classic will feature a boys and girls flag football game in June at Golden Valley’s ...

It’s a great way to help people and show that umpires aren’t just robots out there on the ‘dark side,'” Segal said. “I like to bring kids to the ballpark, and we’ll do three or four ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game ... Everybody has a phone now and is videoing their kid, so when there’s a bang-bang play, everybody is replaying the video on the phone.

The beloved umpire and volunteer was killed in a car crash last summer. But now Terry’s name will live on at the fields that he spent hours caring for. “This was a place our kids played T ...

“There is a lot to learn being an umpire but once you’re on the ground and running around with the kids, whether it be boys or girls, it’s just a great experience and you just feel that you’ve done a ...

All these kids and all these athletes and all these ... is aware that Zachary Alan Barebo, a former umpire at the Affton Athletic Association, was arrested and charged. In July of 2023, AAA ...