Only two teams in all professional baseball entered play on Sunday unbeaten in 2024 – and one survived. Matt Lloyd smashed a 3-run homer in the eighth inning to rally Springfield past Wichita, 8-7, and – with the High-A Spokane Indians falling to Tri-City – the...
In Jupiter for spring training, Springfield Cardinals’ manager Jose Leger observed camp and he started counting. “I was doing the numbers – fourteen players that played (in Springfield) from 2021 when I started here – have gotten to the big leagues with us,” he said....
A record setting crowd of 40,317 attended the UFL’s primetime main event on Saturday night at The Dome in St. Louis. Accordingly, the Battlehawks and Renegades put on a heavyweight fight full of haymakers and counterpunches. Andre Szmyt delivered the final blow with a...
“I think, number one, St. Louis is a top-tier fanbase – for all sports.” – Battlehawks’ head coach Anthony Becht. I was a kid when the NFL returned to St. Louis, and I remember hearing a tale that is surely apocryphal but nonetheless foreshadowed what was coming....
For a moment it appeared the “Kaw-diac” ‘Hawks had struck again. A.J. McCarron and wide receiver Marcell Ateman awakened a slumbering Battlehawks’ offense to grab the lead in the final moments of the 2024 UFL season opener at Ford Field on Saturday – just as McCarron...
Inspired by YouTube clips of his dad’s legendary career at the University of Alabama, A.J. McCarron’s six-year-old son Tripp asked A.J., then 31-years-old and nursing a torn ACL suffered during the 2021 NFL preseason, to keep playing football so he could watch the...
After months of boardroom intrigue culminated in the birth of a new league, few predictions for the United Football League’s inaugural season can be made with confidence. But at least one sure bet remains: The grim concrete confines of the BattleDome in St. Louis are...
Victor Scott II made history with his legs in 2023. Scott II topped all Minor League Baseball with 95 steals – only two players since 2005 – Billy Hamilton and Delino DeShields – have bagged more loot in a single season. The son of two collegiate track stars, Scott II...
Perhaps nobody in Springfield is happier to see the calendar flip to September than St. Louis’ top pitching prospect. Tink Hence surrendered six runs in the first two innings at Arvest Ballpark in Northwest Arkansas on Thursday night and took the loss as Springfield...
