Old faces in new places will face spring challenges from fresh-faced youngsters as full squads report to spring training this week.
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Major League Baseball players would be banned from using chewing tobacco at games in California under a bill expected to be introduced in the state legislature on Tuesday, the first in a nationwide campaign planned by anti-tobacco activists.
UNLV’s baseball team completed its four-game sweep of Pacific on Monday, winning 11-1. The Rebels, though, face a much more challenging stretch of games.
New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, returning from a year-long doping ban, arrived unexpectedly at the team’s spring training camp in Tampa on Monday, two days before position players were due to report.
Major League Baseball instituted several rule changes on Friday designed to step up the pace of play amid growing concerns that its games are growing too long.
I want to start this blog by giving you, the fans, a huge thanks for coming out to support us all weekend. You guys were awesome and it was one of the coolest experiences playing baseball in front of so many people. Hopefully you had as good as time as we did.
UNLV starting pitcher Zak Qualls won’t miss any more than a month because of an injury to his left bicep. He was injured in Friday’s season opener against Nebraska.
Three Grand Canyon pitchers limited UNLV to six hits in a 7-0 victory over the Rebels baseball team Tuesday night in Phoenix.
Embattled New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez apologized on Tuesday for “the mistakes” he made that led to his suspension for taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Pedro Guerrero is intensive care in a Dominican Republic hospital after suffering minor bleeding in his brain.
The owner of a Florida business at the heart of a steroid scandal that led to the suspension of Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for supplying performance-enhancing drugs.
Jason Giambi, a one-time MVP whose career was tainted by a PED scandal, announced his retirement Monday.
Playing before 3,173 fans — the first sellout in Wilson Stadium history — the Rebels botch three scoring chances, strike out 14 times and lose starting pitcher Zak Qualls after only five pitches in a 2-0 defeat to the Cornhuskers.
Washington Nationals all-star outfielder Bryce Harper, a Las Vegas native, and members of the Mountain Ridge Little League team threw out the first pitches before Friday’s UNLV baseball season opener.
Major League Baseball is considering shrinking the strike zone to help increase more offense, according to a Yahoo Sports report.
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