Tag: baseball
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The 2024 MLB season has begun
Contributed Photo / Chris ChowBaseball players. It’s been a long wait for Major League Baseball fans, but baseball season is just around the corner. After fans saw an entertaining 2023 year, the…
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What’s worse, the World Baseball Classic or spring training?
The World Baseball Classic (WBC) returns March 6, and runs through March 22. Unfortunately for the people behind the tournament, very few people actually care. When the WBC was first announced in…
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Management fails Blue Jays fans
The Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series window has prematurely closed after years of bad management, and spring training has not even started yet. The past two seasons, the Blue Jays made the…
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Referee! What kind of call is that!
In sports a player can’t blame the referee entirely for making a bad call, but it is the leagues themselves that should cater to having fewer rules to get more out of…
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Memorable opening week to MLB playoffs
The MLB playoffs began less than a week ago and they have already provided fans with some of the most memorable moments in recent history. All the storylines are there: The underdog…
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Fenway Park: America’s most beloved ballpark
Sports Editor Kyle Morrison returns to Boston’s Fenway Park to rediscover what makes baseball great Fenway Park is unlike any baseball stadium or any sports venue, for that matter, that I’ve ever…
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Men’s baseball team carries championship momentum into 2014
The Laurier men’s baseball team had one of the university’s most successful athletic seasons last year, coming out of nowhere to win their first OUA championship. The hard road to defending their title begins…
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The tale of the 2014 Blue Jays: a slow demise back to mediocrity
There have been many great collapses in history: the Mayans, King Cesar and the Roman Empire, nine out of ten celebrity marriages and many Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs teams. It…
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The weekend and beyond: June is a sports lover’s dream
It is always a treat on a Saturday night or Sunday afternoon to sit back, relax, and watch some of your favourite sports, but this weekend and what’s to follow in June…
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Blue Jay Roy Halladay retires: What legacy will he leave?
In front of friends, family, former coaches and team executives at Lake Buena Vista, Fla., 36-year old pitcher Roy Halladay retired from the game of baseball. Signing a one day contract with the…
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Gryphons spoil Brantford’s homecoming
A packed Arnold Anderson Stadium wasn’t enough to propel the Laurier Golden Hawks baseball team over Guelph this past weekend as the Gryphons stole both games in a doubleheader. A part of…
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Laurier OUA preview
Mens Baseball: Head Coach: Scott Ballantyne After reaching the OUA final in 2009/2010, the mens baseball team at Laurier failed to make the playoffs by one game last season. When asked the…
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Red Sox celebrate 100 years
While baseball may be America’s pastime, its history in the city of Brantford is a strong one. And perhaps no name is more synonymous with Brantford ball than that of the team’s…
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