Tag: All Star Game

Blake Snell of the Tampa Bay Rays allowed a leadoff homer to Willson Contreras of the Chicago Cubs but settled down to work 1.2-innings in the mid-summer classic.

The Major League Baseball All Star Game started off as a gimmick and remains a gimmick 85 years after the first game was played in Chicago. Neither American nor National League owners ever thought about pitting their stars against one another in the previous 30 years that the American League claimed major league status.

LeBron James is playing in a throwback game from a different era.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7arosx_Audk   The National Basketball Association’s big weekend party is in Los Angeles. Commissioner Adam...

The Icemen cometh   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPgq6v_m7k   The National Hockey League is shutting down for three days for the All-Star Weekend corporate party, fanfest and various player competitions and...