Different competitions have different official ball suppliers. Nike has supplied the Premier League match ball since the 2000-2001 season, though Puma will take over from 2025-2026. Nike also has ...

MLB's ball issues date back multiple seasons. The league acquired Rawlings — the company that supplies MLB with baseballs — in 2018. The following season, the home-run rate surged to an all ...

For other college sports, the difference isn’t as pronounced. In football, each offense can use its own ball, even on the road. Baseball home teams supply their own game balls, but the NCAA ...

An astrophysicist has collected and taken apart MLB game balls for years, looking for changes. She found MLB secretly used two different balls, one lighter than the other, in 2021.

But the balls used in games during MLB’s 2020 season—when dingers flew out at a rate second to only that of 2019—tell a different story, according to Wills, whom SI contracted for the rights ...

Wimbledon holds around 675 matches each year between qualifying rounds and the main events of Gentlemen’s Singles, Ladies’ ...

All of this ultimately put enough pressure on the sport to commission an inquiry. That inquiry found that the ball was changed, but couldn’t figure out what exactly was different in the ball .

All of those tournaments are played outdoors on hard courts, but it is possible that each grouping will use a different ball. Later in the year there will be one ball for the European clay-court ...

Additionally, all 30 clubs are utilizing humidors to store balls this season, a practice previously limited to thin-air hitting environments in Denver and Phoenix.

How different types of tennis balls are made and how their varied compositions change the way ATP and WTA players train, prepare and compete. Tim Newcomb | Oct 14, 2015 ...

Today’s solid core golf balls are a different story, rarely losing their roundness and only wearing out due to scratches and scuffs on the cover. Srixon ZX5 MKII, ZX7 MK II and ZX5 LS MK II Drivers.