10 h. ago Who Man United can play in Carabao Cup second round as ball numbers and draw details confirmed

The Carabao Cup second round draw takes place on Wednesday night

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3 d. ago ‘The dream came true’: Major League Baseball gets its first female umpire

Jen Pawol, 48, was given an ovation when she took to the pitch for a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta BravesIt was, she said, the day “the dream came true”. Jen Pawol, a 48-year-old former art teacher, made US sporting history at the weekend when she became the first female umpire of a Major League Baseball game during the regular season.Pawol, whose debut came on Saturday in a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves, was given a standing ovation as she arrived on the pitch. Supporters held up signs reading “Pawol making HERstory” and “the time has come for one and all to play ball” – a nostalgic reference to A League of Their Own, the classic sports film about a women’s baseball league during the second world war. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Bat & Ball Launches ‘Kids Play Free’ Offer for August at Stratford and Covent Garden Locations

Bat & Ball Launches ‘Kids Play Free’ Offer for August at Stratford and Covent Garden Locations  London Post

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1 week ago Play ball, take 2: The MLB Speedway Classic resumes at Bristol after rain suspension

A record crowd for a regular-season Major League Baseball game got to see all the pomp and pageantry with the MLB Speedway Classic before the rain washed out the game itself in the bottom of the first inning

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1 week ago Braves and Reds break Major League Baseball attendance record at Tennessee racetrack – in pictures

A game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway sold more than 85,000 tickets to break MLB’s regular-season record, but was suspended in the first inning due to rain Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Too loud’, ‘too messy’, ‘too much’ why should women be expected to shrink and shut up?

As Lena Dunham’s new show reminds us, whether they’re at work or on a date, women are expected to tone it down if they want to get on. What if they refuse to play ball?‘I can be a bit much,” a friend said to me. A group of us were in a cafe discussing the first date she had scheduled for later that day, and she was worried about how she might come across. It wasn’t the first time I had heard a woman label herself as “too much”, “intense” or “a lot”. I expect even the most feminist of women have found themselves wondering, like the newly single Jessica (Megan Stalter) in Lena Dunham’s new Netflix show, Too Much, whether they would be better off if they just toned it down.Thanks to the lingering presence of “weirdly archaic feminine ideals”, says the author Amy Key, many women still believe that being “a contained, neat person” will make them more desirable on a date, or at work, or in social situations. “That is linked to the idea of the space that you occupy too,” she adds, whether ...

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