The Ice Garden

The San Francisco Firebells ended the inaugural regular season of the Women’s Pro Baseball League with a flourish, coming from behind to nearly lap the Boston Hunters in a 13-7 win, completing a regular-season sweep of their semifinal opponent. Firebells captain Kelsie Whitmore put the cherry on top on Sunday, hitting her 11th home run to match Heights catcher Denae Benites ...

This week on The IX Sports Podcast College Basketball Edition, hosts Melissa Triebwasser and Michael Waterloo break down lots of news from across the college basketball world.

The pair started with a discussion of the announcement that Kate Koval is leaving the Louisiana State University (LSU) basketball program. Koval, who is Ukrainian, put out an announcement say...

BERLIN – Trailing in the final three minutes of a FIBA World Cup group stage game isn’t som...

It started with an error. And then another. And then another. By the time the Hunters recorded the first out in the top of the first inning Saturday night, the Los Angeles Queens were up 7-0 (a run scored on the out, of course). By the time Boston came to bat, LA was up 8-0. The Hunters closed it to 9-6 after the bottom of the fifth, but even that inning saw them give away m...

BERLIN – In 2010, Mali defeated Senegal at the FIBA World Championship in a consolation game. The stakes? The winner would finish 15th, and the loser would finish 16th. It was so long ago that it wasn’t even called the World Cup. Now, the team is fresh off an 82-73 win against Spain in one of the largest upsets in World Cup history.

Just four days ago, FIBA