Boston general manager Dan Duquette fired Jimy Williams when the manager had the team 12 games over .500. Since then the Red Sox have lost 12 of 18 games, including their last nine, falling 9½ games ...

Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it’s Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball Classic. When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout ...

The embattled actor didn’t hold back. Shia LaBeouf holds a lifelong grudge against Dodgers legend Mike Piazza for autograph snubs. LaBeouf claims Piazza ignored his autograph requests about 90 times ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. — The David Bednar splitter, as the pitch is labeled by those who have borrowed the grip, didn’t start out that way. It was the Hideo Nomo splitter first, since Bednar learned the ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly trying to lure a teenage pitching star from Japan away from the Nippon Professional Baseball draft, as the club looks to sign 17-year-old right-hander Shoki Oda ...

The Houston Astros kicked off the new year with a bang by signing Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai to a three-year contract, in a shock move to the baseball world. The Astros showed they can play in the ...

In middle age, some sports fans become reactionaries. Due to dwindling neuroplasticity, or some general souring toward the world, they can no longer appreciate how a game evolves. It’s similar to when ...

Hideo Kojima is the mastermind behind hit action game franchise “Death Stranding,” set in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world in which humanity is threatened by zombie-like ghost creatures called ...

Therese “Terry” Seidler (nee O’Malley), 92, joined the saints in Heaven on December 18, 2025. She passed away peacefully surrounded by the love of family. Terry grew up in St. Gregory’s Parish ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a rich history of international signings, which Hideo Nomo is part of as the first Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball. Nomo was originally signed by the Dodgers ...