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Beat writer Matt Kawahara answers a variety of Astros questions in his bi-weekly mailbag, including if Houston will add a ...

Limiting innings and adhering to rigid pitch counts has not stopped pitchers from getting hurt at an alarming rate. Can the opposite approach help?

During the high school long jump tournament, a player performed a backflip into the sand pit and landed on his back instead of landing feet first as intended.

Ivana Spanovic is considered one of the greatest long jumpers in the history of the event. The Serb won the world championship in 2023.

When Clayton Kershaw takes the mound on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, he will need just three strikeouts to become the 20th member of Major League Baseball’s 3,000 strikeout club.

Savage becomes the first in program history to win the national championship in the women’s long jump ...

Manchester's Joel Elliot is a national champion and national record holder. He just graduated from Parkside Middle School and over the weekend he broke the record in the long jump. Elliot's jump ...

A bronze medal performance by Henry Kiner in the long jump earned Arkansas six team points on the first day of the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field.

Kya Crooke won the long jump with a leap of 20-4.75, breaking a 39-year-old state meet record. The Heritiage Christian senior also won the high jump, going 6-0.25 to break a 40-year-old state meet ...

For the second straight year, Hoover's Isaiah Barker did just enough to beat GlenOak's Skylan King for a long jump state championship.