Offstream
news

In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series in six games, capturing their third championship and their first since 1998.
2024-11-3

In baseball, the Wei Chuan Dragons defeat the Rakuten Monkeys to win the Taiwan Series in seven games, capturing their fifth championship and their first since reforming as a team in 2019.
2023-11-12

In baseball, the Texas Rangers defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the World Series in five games, capturing their first Major League Baseball championship in their 63-year existence. Corey Seager is named World Series MVP.
2023-11-1

The International Olympic Committee approves the inclusion of cricket, flag football, lacrosse, squash, and baseball-softball at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
2023-10-16

In baseball, San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken becomes the first woman to coach on the field during a Major League Baseball regular season game during the team's matchup against the San Diego Padres.
2022-04-12

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games reports the first post-competition case of COVID-19 after Dutch rower Finn Florijn tested positive on Friday and self-isolated at a separate location.
2021-07-25

One Dutch person and two Afghans are remanded in custody for manslaughter and assistance to illegal immigrants staying in France, after they sold places in inflatable boats for them to reach Great Britain, causing the death of an Iranian woman on 9 August.
2019-10-11

A man, who fell from the upper deck of Atlanta's Turner Field during Saturday night's Braves-New York Yankees baseball game, dies.
2015-08-29

"Nature" publishes Penn State University findings of Ancient shells with 430,000-year-old engravings believed to be made by "Homo erectus", changing beliefs on artistic expression and tool use by ancestors of "Homo sapiens". Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois found the collection in Java in 1891 and Penn State discovered the markings in a museum in the city of Leiden.
2014-12-9

Former US baseball player Lenny Dykstra is indicted on 13 counts of bankruptcy fraud.
2011-05-6