Ramin Yamal is 17 years old, and his price tag is a whopping €120 million. There are many players who have made their mark at a young age. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, two of the greatest players of all time, both came into their own as teenagers, while Kylian Mbappe, Elling Holland, and Jude Bellingham, some of the best players of their generation, also excelled as teenagers. But...

A baseball manager gets hit by a foul pitch in the dugout. LG Twins manager Yoon Kyung-yeop was hit in the face by a pitch from KIA Tigers' Na Sung-beom. It happened in the bottom of the seventh inning of a game in Gwangju on Sept. 19. With the score 3-6, Na Sung-beom, facing Kim Jin-sung of the LG Twins, barely cleared a five-pitch low forked ball in the 1B2S, which rolled toward the first...

Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred said on Thursday that the league will not implement an automated ball-strike system (ABS) until the 2025 season, according to the Associated Press. "There are still some technical issues," Manfred said, "and we haven't made the progress in the minor leagues this year that we had hoped for." That's a negative stance on whether or not MLB will...

The aftermath of the Klinsmann scandal is still eating away at Korean soccer. Hwang Sun-hong's U-23 national soccer team was brought to its knees by Indonesia in the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup 2024 at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, in the early hours of Saturday morning. After qualifying for the Olympics 10 times in a row, men's...

Chae Eun-sung of the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) Hanwha Eagles accomplished her goal in the opening series against her hometown team, the LG Twins. She also overcame the jinx of being swept by LG last year.  Chae Eun-sung had a busy schedule ahead of the second game of the season against LG on April 24 at Jamsil Stadium. The game was preceded by the retirement ceremony of Jung...

A Real Madrid legend reunites with a Real Madrid legend. Sergio Ramos, who joined Sevilla from Real Madrid, shared a heartwarming moment with Luka Modric after the match against his hometown club. Sevilla lost 0-1 to Real Madrid in the 26th round of the 2023-24 Spanish La Liga at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday (Sept. 26). With the win, Real maintained their lead at...

"I wanted the players to have hope." On June 6th of last year, an amateur baseball event called the "High School vs. College All-Star Game" was held at the Daejeon Hanwha Ssangyong Glass Park, home of the professional baseball team Hanwha. For some reason, the Daejeon stadium was open to amateur players. Following the abolition of the "first pick" system for the 2022 KBO Rookie Draft, Hanwha...