After being implemented during spring training for the first time, the MLB All-Star Game will reportedly feature the ...

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 ...

The future is here. Major League Baseball plans to break out the robot umpires at the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday night in ...

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 ...

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 ...

2 different balls with different performance profiles. ... 'The ball is the game' Athletes across all sports have an understandable focus on the exact specifics of the equipment they are using.

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 ...

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 ...