Senior umpires have been left angered and frustrated after being told by the AFL they would not be able to train at the ...

MLB baseball season is underway, and while the teams on the field are competing to get to the World Series in October, there ...

When Major League Baseball introduced the 'ABS' (automatic balls/strikes) challenge system to spring training games this year, it was seen as a compromise: betw ...

Manfred did note MLB umpires are "more receptive" to the robot-style system if it were to be adopted, but the next round of ...

In an interview with The New York Times, Manfred also forecasted fans getting more access to game broadcasts after the 2028 ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers ...

The Phillies are 7-2 going into their series in Atlanta, and they’ve looked good doing it. At the top of the list of ...

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

To any baseball fans who haven’t been watching this season’s spring training games ... runs through the base – excluding first – the umpires can call the trailing runner out for abandoning ...

World Sailing has launched the new National Race Officer Training Program for Member National Authorities (MNAs) to apply for ...

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...