PARKER — Nick Radi throws a football year-round. He has private training sessions, film study and conditioning drills to increase his odds to become a starting quarterback in high school. He is 13 years old. “If you don’t know what everyone is doing, what the coverages are, and what your formation is, it doesn’t matter how talented you are,” said […]

Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher Report Cornell University graduate Above the garbage cans at CHS Field in St. Paul, Minnesota, signs communicated an unusual request: Don’t throw away your beer cups! Bring them to Section 118. It was the evening of July 1, and the St. Paul Saints had set out to break a record. The Saints — known […]

The Colorado Rockies say a fan did not yell racial slurs during Sunday’s game against the Miami Marlins, and that the man instead was shouting at the team’s mascot. The Rockies said Sunday they were “disgusted” at what was widely believed to be a racial slur directed at Miami’s Lewis Brinson, who is Black. But the organization told ESPN on […]

Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. CHICAGO – The moment led to two colleagues hugging for the first time in nearly two decades of working together. It also created a raucous atmosphere in the White Sox clubhouse, where high-fives accompanied some hooting and hollering. As the afternoon hours ticked down on MLB trade deadline […]

As part of the research for this piece, I wanted to talk with a pitcher who has faced Freddie Freeman more than a handful of times. Cardinals veteran Adam Wainwright hasn’t ever been in the same division as Freeman, but they’ve both been in the National League more than a decade, and Wainwright has matched wits with the Braves’ first […]

Team USA faces a familiar foe for an opportunity at gold. Team USA plays for a chance at knockout stage revenge vs. Japan — and an opportunity at their first baseball gold medal in the Olympics — vs. the Republic of Korea on Thursday, Aug. 5.  Maybe the odds are in their favor: The United States knocked off Korea in […]

Team USA faces a familiar foe for an opportunity at gold. Team USA plays for a chance at knockout stage revenge vs. Japan — and an opportunity at their first baseball gold medal in the Olympics — vs. the Republic of Korea on Thursday, Aug. 5.  Maybe the odds are in their favor: The United States knocked off Korea in […]

Joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams Previously covered the Angels for MLB.com LOS ANGELES — Inflatable gray garbage cans decorated Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night, bouncing along the packed sections of seats as if they were beach balls. A handful of them made their way onto the field of play, as did some of the foul […]

Lucas Gilbreath’s 2021 season began as the typical hometown-kid-makes-good tale. But there’s a chance that his story has a more compelling chapter to come. Granted, the raw numbers for the Rockies’ rookie left-hander are not pretty: 6.41 ERA, 1.678 WHIP and 5.9 walks per nine innings. But in a lost season in which manager Bud Black admits a number of […]