PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a steamy Thursday afternoon at Stanford’s Smith Family Stadium, every Cardinal player and coach not on the field stands against the dugout rail, shouting encouragement at ...

Devised as an indoor sport for amateurs, softball has diverged into two different games—one slow, and one very fast. Millions of people will watch the Women’s College World Series this year. The ...

Jocelyn Alo stands on top of the NCAA as the all-time leader in home runs (122), slugging percentage (.987) and total bases (761), second all-time in RBIs (323) and fifth in runs (281). After tying ...

The Washington softball team has welcomed 10 newcomers ahead of the 2026 season, with nine of them joining the Husky squad in ...

For Jocelyn Alo’s 10th birthday, her father gave her a poster of the 2008 U.S. Olympic softball team. She hung it up in her bedroom, where she could memorize the names and faces of the roster, ...

Let's start with who I might argue is the best pitcher in the country, NiJaree Canady. She leads the entire country with a .46 ERA. Canady is already almost at 200 strikeouts with a .128 opposing ...

Major League Baseball is purchasing a stake in Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) as part of its efforts to grow the league ahead of its inaugural season, MLB said in a statement Thursday. The ...

Rivalries among college athletes are always a fun time, except for when one school doesn't participate in the same sports. When ESPN's College GameDay crew rolled into Eugene, Ore., on Saturday ...

At these softball playoffs for 11- and 12-year-old girls, you may hear singing. There's a chant for almost every moment in the game and all of them require full-on K-Pop, selfie energy. On a muddy, ...

Arkansas softball’s Dakota Kennedy, Robyn Herron, Ella McDowell, Reagan Johnson and Payton Burnham were named to the Softball America Preseason Top 100 Players list ahead of the 2026 season, the ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- There hasn't been a lot of storybook endings for American teams thus far at these Tokyo Olympics. And what had all kinds of potential to be an emotional victory for USA Softball ...

What began as an effort by Kansas’ governing body for high school sports to enhance the state softball tournament has instead sparked a gender-equity controversy. The Kansas State High School ...