Both U of M basketball teams have coaching additions this season. Corey Green is in his first season as basketball operations director for the women’s basketball team. He formerly spent four seasons at Old Dominion in a similar position, and served on coaching staffs at Memphis (three seasons) and Detroit (two years). He got his […]
James Rowson
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This year’s Black passed-over list
At season’s end, there were eight MLB manager openings, and seven of those are now filled. With one remaining (Pittsburgh), the likelihood of one of the 12 Black candidates—let’s call them ‘the passed over’—being hired isn’t very good.
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Twins make lemonade from lemon season
Second-year Batting Coach James Rowson and first-year Pitching Coach Garvin Alston both told the MSR in separate interviews during the team’s last homestand last month that the remaining three and half weeks of games will serve as foundation-building opportunities for 2019.
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Teaching the art of hitting baseballs
The hardest skill to master in sport is hitting a baseball. As a result, a batter often can have hot streaks when it looks to him like he’s hitting beach balls, and then suffer hitless streaks where the ball looks like the size of a BB. Such ups and downs are regular occurrences in baseball, […]