The Baptist church campus ministry at the University of Louisville, Kentucky has begun conducting evangelical sports events with the university's cricket-playing students from India.
The Baptist Press takes up the story, which doesn't make it totally clear whether the evangelism is aimed at converting the Indians to Christianity, or to baseball. (Or indeed, both.)
The Chicago White Sox have entered a three-year sponsorship deal with the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores. Their night games used to start at 7pm local time. Guess what time they will start next season?
White Sox enter partnership with 7-Eleven
Chicago White Sox press release, 11.10.06
This card costs 'cause you aren't supposed to have it'
(Darren Rovell/ESPN.com, 2.5.06)
What a fiasco. How did Kansas City Royals rookie Alex Gordon get his face onto a baseball rookie card when the MLBPA says he hasn't met the eligibility criteria to qualify to appear on one?
1917: Chicago White Sox
1918: Boston Red Sox
2004: Boston Red Sox
2005: Chicago White Sox
The IOC meeting in Singapore has decided today that Beijing 2008 will be the last appearance of baseball and softball at the Olympic Games for the time being. They have been dropped from the 2012 games in London, but are theoretically eligible for re-inclusion in the Microsoft Seattle Olympics of 2016 (remember where you hear it first!)
This is a pity from my point of view, as baseball is one of the few Olympic competitions which capture my interest.
A brief IOC announcement is here. Five other sports are candidates for inclusion in 2012: Roller Sports, Squash, Karate, Rugby (presumably the seven-a-side mutation) and Golf! Later today, the IOC Executive Board will decide whether to submit any of the five to the IOC session, which is scheduled to wrap up tomorrow.
We know it had to come. His place at the Cubs had become untenable at the end of the 2004 season. But the trade came rapidly this week. Sammy Sosa is now a Baltimore Oriole.
Our favourite baseball team in the Mexican Winter League, the Tomato-growers of Culiacan, are finished for 2004-05. They lost their semi-final series in the seventh game on Thursday to the Venados of Mazatlan 8-2.
The Venados are taking on the Aguilas of Mexicali in the final series. Mexicali won game one on Saturday 7-3. Game two at Mexicali Sunday night.
There wouldn't be too many people still around who can remember the Red Sox last World Series win back in 1918. Even that great Bostonian, JFK the First, would have been less than 18 months old when they did it. The question now is whether Boston can make it a double: the Red Sox today, and the junior senator from Massachussetts (JFK the Second) in the presidential election on Tuesday?
A great, and concise, comment on the Red Sox win at guff.szub.net:
It took less than a minute for the Boston Globe to put this up on their home page:
More later. Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on their first World Series title since 1918.
Whew. We must have just been through the best championship series week in years, maybe all time. Do I feel sorry for Yankees supporters? Nah. Fantastic comeback by the Red Sox.
Nonetheless I will be going for the Cards. Game one starts at Fenway Park in about an hour. Could this all be a big letdown?
My pick for the series: St Louis 4 Boston 1.