Danny Darwin pitched for eight different Major League teams during a 21-year career, so he understands as well as anyone that the game of baseball is not meant to be played fast.
Lighthouse Private Christian Academy boys basketball coach Morris Jones wasn’t sure what to expect from his team over the summer considering it lost five seniors from a team that played in the national tournament in March.
Tony La Russa got his start as a manager in the Southern League, spending half of the 1978 season managing Knoxville, the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.
No girls basketball coach has been hired yet at Navarre, but Michaela Perrone is doing her best to keep the players involved in workouts over the summer.
Gabriel Guerrero raised his hands in the air and pumped up the crowd as he settled in at the plate for the finals of the Southern League Home Run Derby.
Bryson Brewer posted a highlight on Twitter from a spring practice in which he sprinted down the field, stayed a couple of steps ahead of the defender along the way and caught a touchdown pass as he crossed into the end zone.
Raindrops keep falling on the tarp that blankets the infield. Puddles form near the dugouts and on the warning track. The gloomy clouds hanging over the bay off in the distance remind you the tropical storm invading the Gulf Coast has no intention of retreating.
More than 1,500 high school athletes from the area were able to have their sports physicals done for free earlier this month at the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze.
